Lance Ulanoff, the editor in chief of Mashable, probably said it best when he said that implementing the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) would be like returning to the Dark Ages - back when the World Wide Web hasn't been launched yet and everything for most of us was, well, boring. A few days ago, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the popular resource site will shut down for 24 hours today, Wednesday, to protest against the SOPA.

Since the iPhone 4S was officially launched, many were astounded by its mind-boggling features – particularly Siri, the revered “humble assistant” that can listen, understand, and execute tasks including sending text messages, setting up your schedule via the Calendar and Reminders app, checking the weather and even the stock market. But while others are still waiting in line to get the awesome device, the folks over at Chipworks, a technology company that specializes in reverse engineering and patent infringement analysis, were already studying the genius behind the iPhone 4S. Chipworks did a teardown on the iPhone 4S and took its 8 Megapixel camera under an infrared microscope. And guess what they found out – SONY.

While Apple is facing demand-and-supply capacity issues with iOS5 for the time-being. Apple do have another powerful ally in the battle for supremacy in the mobile space, we’re a bit curious how the game has changed and how Android’s line of devices will manage to retain its advantage over the iPhone. Many things have happened over at Cupertino County lately. Although Apple’s legendary co-founder passed away to everyone’s grief, the tech giant managed to release the iPhone 4S – an entirely revamped version of the iPhone 4 and is expected to alter the course of the game. The folks over at AnandTech managed to conduct a series of tests with the newly release iPhone 4S and compared it with the top of the line Android devices including Samsung’s Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Tab 8.9 – both of which are the leading contenders of the iOS. The said series of tests initiated by the popular benchmarking site was all about browser speed and GPU performance. And boy it sure looks interesting.

Being advanced has its own pros and cons. And for the next generation of Windows 8 PCs, it’s going to be something very different. Following the news that the next generation of Windows 8 PCs will be equipped with a completely new booting specification known as UEFI or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, we were able to receive a rather shocking update about the UEFI’s supposed desirable feature. It appears that Microsoft has gone a little cold, although the UEFI specification is somewhat captivating, we’ve also heard that the interface could most likely include a special secure boot protocol that will be required to all Windows 8 users. Yes, it is a security feature that can not only preserve your PC’s software sanity but can also ward off infectious rootkits from entering into the system as well. But there’s a problem.

They say that the devil is in the details. Although what you are about to hear could be partly gossip and partly informative, digging our noses to get the most up to date mobile news in the marketplace has always been a fun and thrilling activity for us here. So if something interesting comes up, we will do our best to bring that one up to you. So what do we have here? Following the recent rumors that Apple is planning to release both the iPhone 5 and a somewhat remodelled version of the iPhone 4 this fall, we were able to grab a few pictures of familiar hardware internals that were allegedly taken from an iPhone 5 device.

Although this has not yet been officially confirmed, the chipset found in the images has the A5 chip marking similar to that of the iPad 2 tablet but with a startling resemblance to the A4 chip used in the iPhone 4, thus stirring the emotions of everyone who are all waiting for something to come from Apple. Thanks to Weibo, China’s own version of Twitter, our picture of the next generation iPhone is starting to get clear.

We all love surprises right? I mean, who isn’t going to be excited about the thrilling news that Apple is going to release two new iPhone models this coming fall. Apparently, JP Morgan’s very own Mark Moskowitz started the buzz which easily spread like wildfire overnight. In a note to investors on Monday, the sharp analyst wrote that Apple is poised to out the much awaited iPhone 5 and a revised model of the iPhone 4 dubbed as the iPhone 4 Plus a.k.a. iPhone 4S this fall. Furthermore, Mark Moskowitz acknowledged the rumors that the next generation iPhone could most likely feature global roaming, capable of supporting both GSM and CDMA data networks without the support for LTE or 4G.