IBT Staff Reporter

With the slumping global economy, many people are falling into despair amidst the bleak situation.

Jan 06, 2009

Crowds cheers all around as Phil Schiller takes the stage before a packed audience.

Jan 06, 2009

Vogue model Liskula Cohen is suing Google with a defamation suit over a blog post hosted by the search engine that describes her as a skank and and old hag, reported the New York Daily News.

Jan 06, 2009

With the situation in all the sectors worsening the New Year is proving to be no good for neither companies nor employees.

Jan 06, 2009

Northern Ireland is being linked to the rest of the world by an underwater communications cable for the first time.

Jan 06, 2009

Apple unveiled revisions to its iLife and iWork software packages Tuesday at the Macworld 2009 show for developers in San Francisco.

Jan 06, 2009

Retail movement of Sony's powerful home gaming system picked up during 2008, with growth more than doubling over the Christmas season according to reports.

Jan 06, 2009

You've heard the talk of Green throughout the whole of 2008, but the way a product affects the environment will be a huge consideration in consumer buying habits, at least when it comes to gadgets.

Jan 06, 2009

As Macworld comes to a close this week, and the keynote ended unceremoniously on Tuesday, those who eagerly awaited an iPhone nano can still get their hands on one -- just not from Apple.

Jan 06, 2009

Chip sales in the Americas have fallen to $2.61 billion in November 2008, down 23.9 percent from $3.43 billion in November 2007, according to the latest figures from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Organization (WSTS).

Jan 06, 2009

Sales of videogame products dropped by 15.3 percent in Japan last year, according to entertainment magazine, Enterbrain.

Jan 06, 2009

Nokia is urging cell phone operators to block a certain text-message that when sent to Nokia handsets, prevents that handset to receive any more messages -- ever.

Jan 06, 2009

Amid a swathe of negative publicity against its Playstation 3 device, Sony fired back late Wednesday, issuing a press-release blasting its competitors as lacking features and value.

Jan 06, 2009

Graphics card maker Nvidia introduced a product on Thursday that has 480 cores that can calculate at nearly 2 teraflops.

Jan 06, 2009

Palm Inc. on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited new software for touch screen smartphones and a new phone, as it vies to rejuvenate its ailing business.

Jan 06, 2009

OHIO - Police say a 4-year-old Ohio boy shot his babysitter with a shotgun in revenge for accidentally stepped on his foot and was angry.

Jan 06, 2009

An Australian woman has been charged with murder after allegedly setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair.

Jan 06, 2009

Many stars including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise have sent their condolences to John Travolta and Kelly Preston.

Jan 06, 2009

Former congressman, Bill Clinton and White House chief of staff, Leon Panetta will be President-elect Barack Obama's CIA Director, according to media reports Monday.

Jan 05, 2009

The upcoming four-day Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas and the anticipated Macworld event that starts Monday shows distinctiveness.

Jan 05, 2009

The Internal Revenue Service has reduced the standard mileage reimbursement rate for business miles from 58.5 cents to 55 cents per mile; the rate for use by local and state employees also is reduced.

Jan 05, 2009

Leon Panetta a former eight-term congressman from California has been a former chairman of the House Budget Committee, budget director and Clinton White House chief of staff and recently member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group was the choice that President-elect Barack Obama made for Director of Central Intelligence Agency , according to media reports Monday.

Jan 05, 2009

Girl Scout Cookie Program that is more than raising money has a lasting impact on girls by building life skills such as leadership, money management, decision-making, teamwork and goal setting, Susan Thompson with the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council says.

Jan 05, 2009

William Nelson, 4-year-old reunites with his father after a gunman who killed his mother, Jennifer Nelson, abandoned him at a rest stop in Madison County by a traveling couple.

Jan 05, 2009

The machine is billed as the world's first hybrid storage notebook and uses both a SSD and an internal HDD which MSI was planning to show off this coming week at CES.

Jan 05, 2009

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — Pat Hingle, 84, a veteran actor whose was known as Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman movies in the 1990s, has died after battling blood cancer.

Jan 05, 2009

The Minnesota Canvassing Board ruled Democrat Al Franken, the comedian and former radio host, won the razor-close election recount by 225 votes out of nearly 3 million cast Nov. 4

Jan 05, 2009

Samsung Electronics plans to introduce the world slimmest LCD TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. According to the the company, the LCD TV thickness is one seventh of Samsung's Bordeaux 850 LCD TVs, which is currently the thinnest on the market. Samsung's new product, measuring only 6.5 millimetres (0.26 inch) thick, is thinner than any other existing TV set, and even slimmer than most mobile handsets.

Jan 05, 2009

London based Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after running out of money and failing to find a buyer.

Jan 05, 2009