Judging by the reaction of those who’ve come into contact with it, the new iPad is a joy to behold. It has a beautiful body, is visually pleasing, and, according to 10 percent of men, more pleasing than making love to a woman.

Apple’s long running spat with Samsung over just about everything they’ve ever sold had provided months of entertainment already. Both companies have sought sales bans in their quests to disrupt sales of new devices around the globe, and the spat shows no sign of coming to an end any time soon.

Back in February, Apple was ruled to have infringed patents owned by Motorola Mobility regarding its iCloud / MobileMe e-mail push notifications structure. The fruit company lodged a subsequent appeal, but that was today rejected, meaning users now have to either set their device to refresh emails at specific times, or, worse still, open the Mail app and fetch new email manually.

Instagram’s rise from their early beginnings as a company called Burbn simply trying something new to the image sharing giant of today is nothing short of impressive. In a mere 17 months, the company had a fantastic exit; it was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, a company synonymous with the word ‘startup’. And, throughout these 17 months, Instagram blew through various milestones very quickly. The first Instagram app which was launched in 2010 had 200,000 users in the first week. This number jumped to 1.75 million by February, then 4 million in May. Staggering growth, really, for what on the surface is such a simple app.

With so many image taking, editing and sharing apps available on each of the main platforms, printing them is turning out to be fairly lucrative business.

Facebook is in the news a lot recently, with the social network splashing the cash to acquire photo sharing platform, Instagram. One of the reasons the company was in the news last year, the new Timeline feature, is now the subject of a Microsoft-made website, too.

There was something of a bombshell greeting me when I awoke today, and it’s probably fair to say that it is still sinking in. In fact, it is proving something of a big deal for many across the internet, if a quick skim of my Twitter and Facebook feeds are anything to go by.

Now that Facebook has splashed $1 billion on Instagram, users of the photo sharing social network are left with something of a quandary. With Facebook itself already finding itself to be hated by much of the online community for perceived privacy violations, some are already fearing the worst for Instagram.

Instagram – one of the hottest image-based social networks at this point in time – has just been acquired by the world’s foremost social platform, Facebook.

A certain amount of hysteria has arisen today after a report suggested that a security vulnerability in Facebook’s mobile apps could lead potentially to identity theft.

Rumors rumors everywhere, and not an ounce of confirmation from Sony! Oh Sony, what’s going on with your PlayStation 4? The truth is that we really don’t know, other than we’re fairly sure that it will not be making an appearance any time soon. At least, that’s if you believe what you read on the internet. If you’re reading this, then that’s a possibility.

If you’re a big fan of Dropbox – and let’s be honest, if you’re reading this then you probably are – then you are just going to love this news. Not just like, not just really like. Love!

As announced by Samsung back in February, the electronics giant has officially spun off its highly successful display manufacturing business as an entirely new corporation. Samsung Display Co., Ltd, poised to fully commence independent operations on April 3rd brags in its press release that overnight, it has “become” the world’s biggest display manufacturer, with 20,000 employees and five production facilities worldwide.

With the App Store containing close to 600,000+ apps, it is no surprise that a lot of software gets lost in the jungle and never makes it to the publics attention. With that said, apps that can bring new user experiences to the table are generally picked up on and quickly gain significant traction amongst iOS users, something that was particularly evident with the Clear app that offered a beautiful gesture based experience.

I would imagine that being the CEO of Apple would be one of the most challenging but also most rewarding job in the technology industry at the moment. The company is enjoying such a tremendous run of success with their mobile and Mac products and have seen their stock price soar in recent weeks, but that doesn’t mean that the position of CEO doesn’t come with its fair share of stress. After being in the position full-time for the last seven months, it seems that Tim Cook is settling in rather nicely if the latest employee opinion polls are anything to go by.

One of the pitfalls of being a huge company is that you become less agile and more prone to slip-ups that perhaps wouldn’t happen if there was more focus, or if it had a better understanding of a the market or territory it is operating in.

Although there has been much talk with regards to future consoles of Nintendo and Microsoft, Sony has stayed relatively adrift of media coverage.

The Harry Potter franchise is one of the most popular of all time. What started off as a few books has spanned a lengthy series of feature films and merchandise, and although the wizardry is mainly focused towards youngsters, plenty of adults count themselves a part of the Potter-manic legion.

Through his incredible vision and drive, Steve Jobs forged together what is today the most valuable company in the world, and, along the way, he revolutionized many industries and facets of how we live. And, for his many accomplishments, his name is often synonymous with the words “entrepreneur” and “visionary”. So, it should come as no surprise that he was rightfully named the #1 entrepreneur of our time in a list put together by Fortune.

They may be the world’s largest social network with over half a billion active users, accounting for approximately one in thirteen on earth, half of which log in to the service on any given day, but that doesn’t seem to stop Facebook from making continuing changes and improvements to their site with the intention of benefitting those users. Over the last few months; Facebook has undergone a number of notable aesthetic changes that affects the way a user’s data is displayed on their profile, with that change set to filter across to all business and fan pages by the end of March.