TECHNOLOGY

RIM got a bit of good news on Thursday when its PlayBook tablet received federal certification, allowing for it to be used by government agencies.

Google announced on Thursday that the Google toolbar will not be supported on Firefox 5 and all newer Mozilla browsers.

Stocks climbed on Thursday as signs of progress on the U.S. debt talks and concrete action from Europe on its own debt crisis heartened investors.

Microsoft Corp reported a greater-than-expected 30 percent increase in fiscal fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, helped by sales of its Office software, but profit from its core Windows product fell on soft personal computer sales.

Groupon Inc's privacy and data-collection policies came under congressional scrutiny on Thursday, the latest sign of regulatory pressure on the largest online daily deals company.

Over one million users purchased and downloaded Mac OS X in a single day, announced Apple.

A future without genius/icon chief executive Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)?

Stocks climbed on Thursday as signs of progress on the U.S. debt talks and concrete action from Europe on its own debt crisis heartened investors.

Upon first glance, it looks like every other Apple store should. But to the trained eye of an American blogger living in Kunming City, China, it was clearly an impostor.

While toilets are ubiquitous in the developed world, 40 percent of the world's population lacks a method to flush away human waste that can lead to deadly diarrheal diseases.

AT&T Inc posted better-than-expected subscriber growth for the second quarter, pushing its profits and sales past Wall Street estimates despite the loss of exclusive U.S. rights to sell the Apple Inc iPhone.

Ford made waves in creating the first company Google+ page, but don't expect its Google+ page to be exactly the same as its Facebook page.

Taiwan's Acer Inc will buy U.S.-based cloud computing firm iGware Inc for $320 million, the fifth-largest ever Taiwanese buyout of a U.S. company, as it seeks to move beyond its core hardware manufacturing business.

Intel Corp trimmed its forecast for 2011 personal computer unit sales, warning of softness in mature markets and sending its shares down more than 1 percent even as its revenue outlook beat estimates.

The company does better than expected and addresses the T-Mobile merger.

Nokia said it expected its struggling cellphone business to remain profitable in the third quarter, bringing some relief to investors after it lost its lead in the smartphone market to rival Apple.

Nokia Oyj, the world's largest phone maker by volume, posted better-than-expected quarterly profit thanks to a major royalty boost from settling a patent dispute with Apple.

Google's announcement on Wednesday to wind down Google Labs, the breeding ground for many of Google's most brilliant tools, raised questions for the future of innovation in Google and stirred up some unrest among Google's hard-core users.

A comparison of two new Android Honeycomb tablets,Toshiba Thrive and Lenovo IdeaPad Tablet K1 with Apple iPad 2.

Eli Lilly and Co reported a drop in quarterly earnings as generic competition increased for its Gemzar cancer medicine, but sales beat forecasts and the drugmaker boosted its full-year profit view.

Ailing Nokia on Thursday surrendered its lead in the global smartphone market to rival Apple and shed more market share as it reported a steep net loss for the second quarter.

Google+ launched the Android app before it launched the iPhone app, yet the iPhone G+ app has quickly jumped to the top of Apple's Free Apps list.

Given Jobs’ history of medical issues, and the lack of an explicit successor, there are some concerns about the future of Apple – despite its immense success and market domination.

Apple's latest operating system Mac OS X Lion debuted yesterday, and is now available for download from the Mac App Store. If you have a really slow connection, you can come back August and pick up a flash drive from an Apple store for $69.99. It has more than 250 new features, including FaceTime video chatting, AirDrop wireless transfer, multi-touch gesture and autosave. Here are some reviews from around the web.

Taiwan's Acer Inc will buy U.S.-based cloud computing firm iGware Inc for $320 million, the fifth-largest ever Taiwanese buyout of a U.S. company, as it seeks to move beyond its core hardware manufacturing business .

The frenzy with the launch of Google has slowed down in the past couple of days compared to 2 million users joining every day in the last one week, suggests an analysis by Paul Allen, co-founder of Ancestry.com.

Apple's new line of 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air notebooks, which went on sale on Wednesday with the new Mac OS X Lion pre-installed, will pose a threat to PC sales, according to analysts.

NASA spacecraft Atlantis landed successfully on runway 15 of the shuttle landing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:57 am EDT. The landing marks the end of the space shuttle program.

AT&T Inc's second-quarter revenue beat Wall Street expectations and its customer growth improved in the first full quarter after it lost exclusive U.S. rights to sell Apple Inc iPhone.