The rapidly-growing field of digital assistants for mobile devices has now got a new entrant --- Sherpa, a virtual assistant app which is essentially an amalgamation of Apple Siri and Google Now for predicting as well as anticipating the needs of the users.

Amid the rumors making rounds about the yet-to-be-released next-generation Apple tablet, the `iPad 5', an alleged case for the forthcoming device has reportedly been spotted in Hong Kong; and it hints at a thinner as well as narrower tablet.

According to the latest statistics released by Gartner on Thursday, the worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets, and mobile handsets will likely witness a 9 percent year-on-year increase in 2013; with the total shipment figures of these devices expected to touch 2.4 billion units.

In a sentence ordered by US District Judge Susan Wigenton in Newark, New Jersey, on Monday, convicted hacker Andrew Auernheimer was handed a 41-month jail term for breaching AT&T's networks to gain illegal access to email addresses and other information of over 120,000 iPad subscribers.

According to reports, even though the registration is officially open for Google's annual developer conference - the 2013 Google I/O event, which is scheduled to be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from May 15 to May 17 -, the tickets for the event have sold out.

U. S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday that Apple's CEO Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the lawsuit which the U. S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed against the bigwig tech firm over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market.

Taiwan-based Android handset maker HTC said in a Friday statement that the District Court of Mannheim in Germany had dismissed two patent-infringement lawsuits which Finnish firm Nokia had filed against it.

According to the latest statistics released by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), the year-on-year growth rate posted by the tablet market in Middle East and Africa (MEA) in 2012 surpassed expectations; with the total tablet shipments for the fourth quarter touching a total of 1.36 million units.