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As Gartner played host to 10,000 IT pro at the Gartner Symposium IT Expo in Orlando this week, a new list of top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 emerged.

Just as Apple released the coveted iPad Mini, reports streaming in suggest that issues with one of the display manufacturers could put the tablet in short supply. The reports suggest that pre-orders may be affected in the holiday shopping season.

Mac mini with OS X Server features a quad-core processor, ultrafast Thunderbolt technology, and now twice the storage capacity.

At an event today in San Jose, Apple said the revamped Mac Mini will have three USB 3 ports, dual or quad-intel Core i5 or i7 Ivy Bridge, with Intel HD Graphics 4000, and up to 16GB of RAM. It starts at $599 for a 2.5GHz computer with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.

Samsung Tuesday refuted reports that claimed the company would cease to produce LCD screens for Apple products starting 2013.

Buzz has it that Apple (AAPL) is busy decorating the California Theatre in San Jose, Calif., for the highly anticipated iPad mini event tomorrow that is likely to commence at 10:00 a.m. Pacific/ 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

With just a day to go Apple Oct.23 event, rumor mills are agog that iPad mini component and manufacturing cost is likely to come up anywhere between $195 and $254 for various models.

Microsoft has removed Facebook and Twitter apps from Xbox 360 as part of its mandatory dashboard upgrade ahead of global roll out Oct.23.

The highly-anticipated Apple iPad Mini Oct.23 event is also likely to introduce minor refresh to the traditional 9.7-inch iPad including integration with Apple's Lightning connector.

The MPAA and RIAA have employed controversial tactics and numbers to stop illegal file sharing, which audiences now seem to accept as a way of consuming content.

As hype builds for the highly anticipated release of “Assassin’s Creed III,” more information on the game is emerging every day. And the latest piece of marketing is a trailer focusing not on the series' assassins but on its often-unseen protagonist Desmond Miles.

'Mass Effect 4' has been confirmed for about a month now, but a BioWare producer has just revealed that Commander Shepard will not be making a comeback.

According to a new Gartner report, enterprise IT supply chains will be targeted and compromised in near future, forcing changes in the structure of the IT marketplace and how IT will be managed moving forward. The report said that by 2017, IT supply chain integrity would be identified as one of the top three security-related concerns by Global 2000 IT leaders.

Despite a sequential growth of 4 percent, the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market shrank 5 percent annually last quarter (2012 Q3) to 31.4 million units, falling short on IDC's initial forecasts, according to a latest International Data Corp report.

Yelp will begin posting warning messages on the Yelp pages of businesses caught offering money for false reviews

It appears that silver lining for Microsoft Surface is growing bigger by the day as at the end of the first day of the pre-orders the $499 model is showing that shipments are being pushed back within three weeks.

The new Redsn0w version includes another feature that has been added to the new Redsn0w, which makes it possible to perform an untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.1.1 running on pre-A5 devices in A5 Non DFU Style.

Coming hot on the heels of Apple’s October 23 iPad Mini event and the release of Windows 8, Google has scheduled its own mysterious announcement event on October 29.

HTC J Butterfly, which is expected to be released in December on AU/KDDI, is claimed to be the first announced phone that feature a 5-inch, 440ppi full-HD "Super LCD 3" panel. The display comes with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 that gives it a pixel density of 440 ppi.

Microsoft announced that a special limited-quantity pre-order for Surface with Windows RT had been made available at 9 a.m. PDT on Tuesday. The announcement about pre-orders came after the company revealed the price and market availability details both of its ARM-based Surface RT tablets.

Android-based devices that are subject to growing number of malware attacks are now getting an Android malware scanner thanks to Google Play.

One of the exciting features of the updated Redsn0w is the new direct restore option for pre-A5 devices that lets you downgrade the device from iOS 6 to any iOS 5.x firmware without dealing with host files, stitching, Pwned DFU, iTunes or any other complications that made the downgrading process difficult in the past.

According to multiple recent reports, Apple’s long-rumored iPad mini is likely to be unveiled on Oct. 23. There have also been reports speculating on what the smaller iPad could possibly feature. But the one thing that still remains a mystery is the price of the device.

The malware protections on Windows 8 has been improved.

The new advertisement for Window 8 shows a new side of Microsoft, featuring hard rock, action sports and more.

Keep your kids safe on Halloween with apps like SecuraFone.

In a bid to boost its smartphone ambitions, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) is holding advanced talks to acquire the supplier of chips for its Kindle tablet, Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist reported Monday.

The iPhone-Dev Team released a new version (v0.9.15b1) of the popular Redsn0w jailbreak tool Sunday and announced that it would have new features supporting restoring to older firmware, no longer being signed by Apple.

The iPhone Dev-Team announced Sunday that its popular jailbreaking tool Redsn0w received a major update with significant new features including full support for the final public release of iOS 6 on select devices with integrated Cydia.