TECHNOLOGY

Japanese companies Fujitsu and Panasonic plan to enter the European smartphone market as rivals Apple and Samsung have piled on the pressure in their previously isolated home market.

With just weeks left until Apple's official unveiling of the highly anticipated iPad 3, a Chinese blog claims to have leaked pictures of the next generation tablet.

Hacker group Anonymous broke into the Houston County official Web site and altered the homepage with racy images late Monday.

Chinese website WeiPhone released a photo that it claimed to be of the forthcoming iPad 3's logic board. But the real news appears to be an A5X system-on-a-chip showed on the board.

Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.

SOPA author Lamar Smith has hit back with yet another Internet Surveillance Bill. H.R. 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 allows many other domineering attempts by the government to invade privacy and control the Internet. Here's how it intensifies threats to online privacy

Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co, the world's biggest maker of televisions, is shifting its focus towards new generation OLED display technology, and said it will spin off its loss-making LCD flat-screen business into an affiliate.

Japan's largest IT services vendor Fujitsu plans to launch a wide range of smartphone and tablet devices for the first time in Europe, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Perhaps no Lin fan is more deep-pocketed than Mark Zuckerberg.

This week's revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies.

Motorola will update the Photon 4G with Ice Cream Sandwich starting in September, but you may want to wait and buy an iPhone 5 instead. So far, only two smartphones are running the new Google Android 4.0 system, and only two others have a date given for when they might get it.

Spending on information technology fell 13 percent in Egypt last year after the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak and will be flat for 2012 as a political void stalls government investment in the sector, IDC said on Sunday.

While tech enthusiasts are eagerly waiting for Apple's upcoming iPad 3, officials at the Cupertino headquarters are apparently working hard on making the third generation tablet a stupefying success.

A British student, who hacked into Facebook's internal network risking disastrous consequences for the website, was jailed for eight months on Friday in what prosecutors described as the most serious case of its kind they had seen.

Apple has asked EU anti-trust regulators to step in and settle a technology patent dispute between the company and Motorola Mobility, according to Motorola Mobility.

Apple Inc did not infringe patented technology owned by Android phonemaker HTC Corp, the U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday, the latest ruling in the wide-ranging smartphone patent wars.

Hacker group Anonymous breached the Web site of Romania's National Institute of Research for Optoelectronics (INOE), along with other important subdomains and leaked nearly 2,000 confidential files.

Adding more fuel to the Apple iPad 3 rumor mill, new evidence claimed Friday that the upcoming iPad 3 will feature Retina Display with a resolution of 2048x1536.

Apple Inc did not infringe patented technology owned by Android phonemaker HTC Corp, the U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday, the latest ruling in the wide-ranging smartphone patent wars.

Social media has revolutionized the way information is shared, and a new Internet feature is taking it a step further. Twitris, a Web application developed in Ohio, analyzes social media content pertaining to natural disasters, current events and other ongoing national news.

Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds have conquered mines, construction sites, Rio, and all four seasons, which is why the colorful birds will leave this planet and take their slings and fury to space. On Friday, Rovio announced their new game, Angry Birds Space, which will launch on March 22.

Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of Web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday.

Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of Web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday.

Apple Inc's share of China's booming smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in October-December, as it lost ground to cheaper local brands and as some shoppers held off until after the iPhone 4S launch last month.

While Amazon has carefully protected sales information concerning their low-budget tablet, the Kindle Fire, a new report from iSupply, a market research firm, says that Amazon has nabbed the #2 in tablet market share. Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads and iPad 2s during the fourth quarter of 2011 according to iSuppli. Shipments were up 39 percent from 11.1 million in the third quarter; however, Apple's share of tablet market share dropped from 64 percent in the third quarter to 57 percent in t...

Electronic Arts plans to launch copies of Mass Effect 3 into space using weather balloons, which will be released in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London, Berlin, and Paris.

The release of Mountain Lion (10.8), the new version of Mac OS X announced by Apple Thursday, brought an end to the seven-months-old lifespan of OS X 10.7 Lion. Apple claims the ninth major release of the desktop operating system brings popular apps and features from iPad to the Mac and accelerates the pace of OS X innovation. Let's explore all these.

Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads whose factories are under scrutiny over labor practices, has raised wages of its Chinese workers by 16-25 percent from this month, the third rise since 2010.