In its monthly Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft has - for its July Patch Tuesday on July 10 - announced patches for as many as 16 vulnerabilities in nine security updates, with the fixes including a critical drive-by Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) bug, as well as Windows zero-day vulnerability.

Three of the nine security updates announced by Microsoft this Patch Tuesday were rated as "critical", which is the company's most-severe threat ranking; and the other six updates were rated "important", the second-most-serious threat label.

Within days of its $60 million settlement of a long-running legal dispute over the iPad trademark with Chinese struggling monitor firm Proview, Apple has now announced that its new iPad will hit the China stores on July 20.

In a Tuesday statement pertaining to the Chinese availability of the new iPad, Apple said that the company's popular tablet - which was launched in the US in March - will be priced at a range of between $499 and $829, depending on the storage capacity of the device as well as its wireless-connection compatibility.

Users of Nintendo 3DS, Wii U consoles will soon be able to use an eShop gift card for the 3DS to download an item on the Wii U and vice-versa, Nintendo representative David Marshall has announced.

Mr. Marshall said the Japanese video games giant would launch a unified account system for the 3DS and the Wii U to allow gamers to create one online account and use it for both platforms.

People will soon be able to launch their new projects through popular crowd-source funding platform Kickstarter.

Using micro-blogging site Twitter, the crowd funding website stated, "People in the UK will be able to launch projects on Kickstarter starting this autumn."

The crowd funding website also assured that it would reveal more detail in the coming weeks.

Fire Investigations UK (FIUK) has determined that Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone that spontaneously burst into flames in Ireland a few weeks back was caused by an external energy.

There are certainly competitive reasons for Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to produce a smaller iPad, market analysts and tech bloggers widely believe.

Computerworld blogger Jonny Evans, says that Cupertino firm would not give its enemies free reign in the smaller tablet space.

Despite the fact that powerful storms through the Mid-Atlantic region last week brought down the servers which run the mammoth streaming operation of online biggie Netflix, the company has said that it remains undeterred by the recent outage of its service, and that it still is fully convinced about the power of cloud computing.

Close on the heels of Kaspersky Lab's discovery that the "Find and Call" contacts utility app was a Trojan, both Apple and Google removed the malware-laden app from their respective stores - the A pp Store and Google Play - on Thursday evening.