Almost two months after the official update to the latest Android OS version - the Android 4.0 `Ice cream Sandwich' (ICS) update - for the European users of the popular Galaxy S II smartphone, the Singapore owners of the handset are now getting the ICS upgrade.

In a Tuesday report, hacking news aggregator Airdemon. net revealed that nearly 55,000 Twitter accounts had been attacked by hackers seemingly linked to the Anonymous hacktivist group. The microblogging site, however, downplayed the reports of the data breach, saying that the hackers’ claims of the attack on the site were largely bogus.

In a Thursday announcement, T-Mobile USA revealed that it intends shutting down its Redmond call center in a broad consolidation move aimed at bringing down costs and sustaining itself in the highly competitive scenario. The shuttering of the Redmond call center will result in the lay-off of 359 employees.

With the Apple stock recently having touched $600 a share, and the investors urging the company to pay back some money to the shareholders, Apple has scheduled a conference call today, to decide the fate of its staggering cash pile of $98 billion.

According to a Thursday report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the Reston, Virginia-based LightSquared is in for yet another setback, with Sprint Nextel having apparently decided to pull the plug on its proposed 15-year 4G network contract with the impending hybrid network operator.

In a Thursday statement, Samsung Electronics' spokesman James Chung revealed that a recent ruling by a Dutch court has prevented the South Korean electronics company from pursuing injunctions against iPhone-maker Apple for infringement of standards-essential patents as long as Apple appears to be keen on negotiating license deals.

According to an AllThingsD report, Yahoo recently took the legal route against Facebook, when it filed a lawsuit against the social network, accusing it of infringing on as many as 10 of Yahoo's web-related patents.