Google is joining a crowd of companies packaging digital content in a magazine-like format for mobile devices.

Facebook has said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year and add an engineering team to its office in New York. "We will hire as many high quality engineers as we can here in New York," Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg told reporters at an event also attended by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Telecom operators in India maintained that there was no problem at their end. Glitches in BlackBerry services were reported from different parts of the world.

When in February Steve Jobs learned that his time was finally running out, Apple's visionary co-founder surrounded himself with those most important to him: his wife and his children, according to The New York Times.

People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, reviewed his life on Macintosh computers and tapped out tributes on iPhones.

It would be hard to walk 100 feet in Washington and not slam into somebody who's using something that Apple created - an iPhone or an iPad or a Macbook Pro.

If you walked into the office of almost any chief executive and asked him or her to describe a favorite font, I'm pretty sure you would be greeted with a blank stare and silence.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died "peacefully", his family said, thanking those who had supported them through the past year of his battle with cancer. "Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family," his relatives said in a statement.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, left an indelible mark on the world with his uncanny ability to marry hard-core technology with an understanding of human nature. In a rare personal moment at one of his last press events, he displayed a huge picture of street signs showing the intersection of "technology" and "liberal arts," saying that it was there that Apple was trouncing rivals.

Apple has finally announced the highly anticipated successor to their iPhone 4. The latest iteration of the smartphone will be called the iPhone 4S.