TECHNOLOGY

GM Chevrolet Volt's key competitor in the electric-vehicle market Nissan has launched an app for Android and BlackBerry phones for its all-electric car Leaf.

Sony suffered another setback on Thursday after announcing its long-awaited PlayStation Vita won't be available by the holiday season in the U.S. or Europe.

Google Inc, fresh from losing a bid to buy thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel, lashed out at its biggest rivals on Wednesday and accused them of banding together to block the Internet giant in the red- hot smartphone arena.

Sony ruled out dumping its television business or dissolving a TV panel partnership with Samsung Electronics Co even as it looks to overhaul its lossmaking TV unit.

The fierce patent war unfolding in the technology sector just got muddier as Google finally fired a salvo in a missive posted on its blog, calling patent lapping efforts by companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Apple as an attempt to sabotage Android's march.

Today, Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to launch five new smartphones, which may give the iPhone and Android a run for their money.

Scientists believe that they may be able to finally explain why the two sides of the lunar body are so different from each other. A new study published in the journal Nature has suggested that Earth originally had two moons in orbit around it until a second moon flattened itself to the bigger moon more than 4 billion years ago.

AptiQuant, the company behind a study that claimed people who used Internet Explorer had low IQs, confirmed in a post on its Web site that the report was "indeed a hoax."

Google said the reason Apple and Microsoft teamed up to buy patents is because they want to take out Android.

Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Over the past 50 years the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history and experts think the trend is accelerating.

Apple Inc?s South Korean unit has been fined with $2,885 by the telecommunication regulator for allegedly collecting users? location data without permission.

Richard Handl of Sweden was arrested after he was found trying to split atom and build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen.

Apple started offering re-downloads of selected TV shows a few days ago

NASA said it will host a news briefing on Thursday about a significant new Mars science finding. The space agency did not give too many details in the release but said the new finding is based on observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006.

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd <0013.HK>, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's flagship ports-to-telecommunications company, reported a more than sevenfold rise in first-half net profit, helped by a hefty one-off gain from the spin-off of its port assets.

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd <0013.HK>, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's flagship ports-to-telecommunications company, posted a 632 percent rise in first-half net profit, helped by hefty one-off gain from the spin-off of its port assets, but lagging market forecasts.

Among the mysteries lying on the far side of the Moon are why it has a thick mountainous crust, while the near side which we see has low-lying lava plains and a much thinner crust than the far side. Scientists believe they may be able to finally explain the moon's asymmetry.

Google Realtime Search, which was disabled for the launch of Google+ is being revived once again to feature data from Google+, Facebook, Twitter and other social sources.

A method of predicting which individuals may become friends on social networking sites based on the places they visit out in the real world has been developed by researchers at Cambridge University in Britain.

Deutsche Telekom is on track to meet its 2011 targets, it said on Thursday, despite a poor performance in the United States, continued economic weakness in southeastern Europe and sluggish growth in Germany.

A team of Swedish sea treasure hunters has found something extraordinary on the sea bed, prompting speculation that the wreckage is that of a crashed flying saucer.

As Facebook's recently launched competitor Google+ is raging ahead with 25 million unique visitors, Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing Facebook, has decided to leave.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion introduced five new handsets that run on its new BlackBerry 7 mobile OS, in a bid to regain ground against rivals like Apple.

Forget all the speculations about iPhone 5, the latest from the rumor mill is Apple could launch its HDTV modeled after Bose VideoWave in March 2012.

Continuous growth of smartphone market in the U.S. clearly reflects how people are attached to their cellphones, but a report from TeleNav shows how willing Americans are to compromise on other things in their life so that they can cling on to the handset.

Sims Social will be released sometime in fall 2011.

Apple's (AAPL) revenue from China hit $3.8 billion in the June quarter to record a 600 percent annual growth. But Tim Cook, the acting CEO, said Apple was only "just scratching the surface" considering the huge opportunity in China.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi has announced her decision to leave the social networking site Facebook.

According to a recent report from the University of Utah study, the canopy density or the prehistoric tree cover in East African environment goes back to more than 6 million years, where the human ancestors and the ape relatives evolved.