Technology giant, Apple has released the new the iBooks 2 for iPad app and the iBooks textbooks, taking the digital book revolution to the next level.

Digital textbooks have been growing at a great speed and this has created an opportunity for companies like Apple and Amazon. Apple has been offering a pool of knowledge in algebra, biology and chemistry subjects. The company is offering various publications from major publishers like McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and DK.

Sporting goods maker, Nike Inc has released a new digital device, Nike+ FuelBand, which will allow athletes to track their movements.

The new Nike+ FuelBand is capable of tracking all movements such as running, dancing or swimming, allowing players to track their own movements and set goals to improve performance and speed.

The high-tech wristband, which was unveiled on Thursday, displays measures of calories burned like other exercise equipments in the market. The NikeFuel is claimed to be able to compare different activities through the standard.

Japanese consumer electronics major, Sony has reduced the price of its Tablet S by $100, indicating a new trend of price falls in the industry.

The 16GB version of the tablet will cost $399.99 compared to about $500 earlier while the 32GB model will come for $499.99 compared to a hundred dollars higher. The company has is also offering some great free content for the customers.

The buyers purchasing at the reduced prices will get ten free PlayStation Classic games, a 180 day subscription to the Music Unlimited streaming service, five free movie rentals as well as an $8 voucher to buy more content.

The android powered, Kindle Fire tablet has remained the highest selling item on the American online retail major, Amazon’s ecommerce website.

Amazon had not disclosed the number of tablets sold on the site as it is company policy to guard figures. The company only said in statement that, "2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family as customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers."

Hackers are claiming to be successful in running Apple's Siri virtual digital assistant on any jailbroken iOS 5 device with a special tool developed by the coders for the purpose.

Two known hackers, Grant Paul and Ryan Petrich developed the tool called Spire, through which they run Siri on devices powered by iOS 5 after jailbraking them. Interestingly, the new hack is not technically illegal but is certainly not approved by Apple.

Several people are receiving that is often described as the much desired gift, the Apple iPad this holiday season and there are several apps aiming to attract customer attention and get noticed in the millions of apps available.

A project looking to produce affordable computers to address the digital divide as released its low-cost Raspberry Pi computer priced at just £16.

The Raspberry Pi project aims to sell £16 Linux-based computers to allow children to learn about computing in schools. The project handlers have said that they are now testing a beta version of the device.

The Model A Raspberry Pi is based on a microchip that is similar to the one used in mobile phones. The first circuit boards are complete and the production is scheduled to begin next year.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the first true Google tablet will be released in the coming year.

Analysts say that Google will join the competitive tablet market possibility with a tablet under the Nexus brand name. The tablet market is dominated by Apple iPad and includes various Android based tablets including that fro Amazon, Samsung, HTC and others.

"In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

South Korean electronics giant, Samsung has received an approval from the Austrian courts to start selling its new Galaxy tablets in the country after Apple’s appeal to block the sales of the company was not upheld.

Chief Justice Robert French in Australia said that Apple failed to persuade and thus it did not allow a hearing to the company. He reinstated an appeal court judgment and thus lifted a ban on the sale of Galaxy 10.1 tablets in the Australian market.

Apple’s iPhone smartphone, which is facing stiff competition from various Android as well as other devices globally, has emerged as the most preferred smartphone among mobile workers, according to a new report.

A mobile worker is defined as a worker who uses a mobile device including laptops, smartphones, cellphones and tablets for work related tasks, according to the new iPass Global Mobile Workforce Report.

Greggs has launched its first ever digital campaign aimed at prompting a new range of doughnuts featuring four new flavours.

The campaign and new launch will allow the company to compete better against US rivals Krispy Kreme. The company will also launch a social media campaign to assign a new personality to the each of eh four new flavors that include, cake, chocolate vanilla, strawberry milkshake and chocolate snowball.

Each doughnut will be introduced to UK market with individual promotional videos on YouTube. Customers are also allowed to vote for their favorite flavor on Facebook as well as Twitter.

Turkish tech site Donanim Haber has reportedly leaked details about AMD's plans relating to the processor aimed at the tablet computer for the next year and a half.

The leaked plan details a follow up to the current Z-Series Fusion APU called Desna.

The new processor, to be called Hondo, will focus on tablet devices. Honda will feature more tablet friendly features and leave out some features meant for the PCs in order to streamline the set up.

The company might add an 'active stanby' mode, allowing the tablets to maintain connectivity and while reducing power consumption by about a third, according to the roadmap.

The IT company in Bangalore is releasing the ‘Electronic Hardware Policy 2011 and the Information and Communication Technology Policy’.

The industry is considering where they should explore their options in order to develop meaningful growth. The state has already contributed 30% of the country’s IT exports. The new policy will focus more on branding Bangalore and Karnataka. The Government has also planned to focus on software product development and find ways to fund institutes of higher learning.

A project supported by Indian government to design a low-cost tablet has been accomplished and the Smartphone will be unveiled by the end of this month. Government has recently announced that 10,000 Sakshat tablets will be delivered to IIT Rajasthan in late June and will be priced at Rs. 2,200 or $35. Also, more than 90,000 units of the Smartphones will be available in next four months at the same price.

The government has planned to subsidize the cost of these Smartphones for students by 50% and will be available for students for Rs. 1,100.

American online retail giant, Amazon has claimed that it sold 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 printed copies since April 1.

“We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly—we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

He also claimed the Kindle is the largest selling e-book reader in the world even as Amazon does not announce its sale figures. The Kindle e-books are selling the rate of three times their rate during a comparable period in 2010. Amazon arrived at the number of 105 after excluding the free Kindle e-books.

The year-long wait for your iPad is over; Apple now launches iPad in India. As opposed to its launch in other countries, the 3G versions now comes with a no restriction to a single service provider exclusively in the Indian market.

The good news is that all the versions will be available unlocked enabling your iPad to work with the micro SIM provided by any cellular service providers. This additional expedience to the Indian market offered by Apple has been a positive tossup for the company.

India over the years has emerged as a huge market for almost everything right from automobiles to mobile phones. The latest phenomenon in the Indian markets is the Smartphone as indicated by the sales numbers. The sales of these Smartphone have grown 3 times (July - September) of 2010 just about a year ago.

The numbers were even more heartening in the second quarter of 2010 where the sales have jumped by 34.2%. The latest survey by IDC has revealed these numbers which are quite evident of the fact that Indian consumers prefer the Smartphone more than any other.

The prices of Smartphones have dipped sharply and they are continuing to drop with the increase in competition.

BenQ has pronounced the latest version of its PC-less, lamp-free GP1 Mini Projector in Indian markets. The projector, runs on 3LED technology, has USB video reader and weighs just 640 grams, making it the ultra-light device to be carried along.

The GP1 Mini supports 120% NTSC, 100 ANSI lumens that are backed by digital LED lighting, Wall Color Correction and comes with a default 2W speaker. Considered to be a many at once solutions provider, it comes in handy as a portable home projector easy to be carried around.

The recent game named as Battle Tag is offering guns for a much involved game play. The guns are loaded with sensors that aids in providing a life like experience to one and all.

Battle Tag that barely comes under the class of video games is more akin to "multimedia" board games like Nightmare since it's an Ubisoft release one has to admit the weight of it.

The game comes loaded with four guns and sensor packs used by players running around the real world shooting each other.

According to a recent finding it was observed that mobile phones are most preferred gadgets for browsing social networking sites.

The mobiles phones are slowly becoming an upcoming device for communication as well as connectivity and more people are relying on the same for browsing the internet as well as connecting to the internet.

Social networking sites are slowly gaining popularity with respect to other sites in coherence with recent studies it was conducted that Facebook on 3G handsets by 5 million mobile users have shot up by 390 percent in the last one year.