TECHNOLOGY

A former senior director at Flextronics International pleaded guilty on Tuesday, telling a U.S. judge he was paid $200 an hour by an expert network firm to spill inside information to hedge funds.

comScore has the latest stats for the fierce smartphone OS war. Google's Android is still number one and Apple is still improving. RIM's Blackberry, however, is hurting badly.

U.S. regulators, reeling from a series of scandals over U.S.-listed Chinese companies, will head to Beijing to discuss launching audit inspections while regulators in Canada announced a probe of foreign issuers.

Google+ has triggered a response from Facebook as the two tech companies go head to head with the release of Google+. The social network war of 2011 has begun as Google will look to power its momentum with possible integrations of Zynga games, Hulu TV shows, Groupon-like deal coupons, and music through the cloud. These are some of the things we would love to see on Google's latest project and it is quite possible it may happen.

Google's Android phones continued its march to dominance. For the three months ended May 2011, it has 38 percent of the US smartphone market share, up from 33 percent in February 2011.

Netflix has a lot of short-sellers betting against its long-term stock success. Here's five reasons why the shorts are wrong.

Bankrupt telecommunications firm TerreStar Networks Inc is facing two objections to its proposed sale to Dish Network Corp, including from the maker of its geosynchronous satellite.

Twitter is raising private capital, apparently to delay an anticipated IPO.

Pfizer Inc may have won over shareholders with its recent decision to pare back research and development spending but could be shortchanging them in the long run, according to its former research chief.

As the clock ticks down to this week's final space shuttle launch, there is a mounting sense of uncertainty about future U.S. dominance in space.

Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile provider, will stop offering customers unlimited data services for a set fee on July 7, meaning higher prices for heavy users of services such as mobile Web surfing.

The Chinese burning of coal may explain why global warming has halted in the last 10 years, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Apple and Samsung are battling

Up ahead, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected deploy NextGen, it's new, GPS-based but expensive air traffic control system that, long-term, promises to save time, energy, and money and improve the flying experience for all stakeholders -- from pilots to travelers.

Who top the Google+ follower list?

The fate of Google's new social app reaching a global stable of mobile users is in the hands of Steve Jobs.

Here’s a list of 5 best iPhone, iPad apps of last week

While Apple muses over the viability of adding glasses-free 3D viewing capability to iPhone 5, LG and HTC have already launched two Android smartphones which feature glasses-free 3D viewing - LG Thrill 4G and HTC EVO 3D

List of Top 10 most dedicated Mac OS X apps that will also be useful with Mac OS X Lion.

The question whether the TouchPad is capable enough to take on the iPad 2 does not arise. What is of interest is how big a dent it will create in the sales of iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1, the duo that rule the roost in the tablet market.

The U.S. Secret Service, whose job is to protect the president, is reportedly investigating the recent hack on Fox News' Twitter account which falsely claimed that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Apple could launch an unlocked version of iPhone 4S with prepaid voice offering.

While Apple is reportedly making its ground with the combo release to capture a wide swatch of smartphone users, reports have surfaced over the past few days revealing that Samsung and HTC are also set to unleash value-priced versions of their popular smartphone models.

The Twitter partnership that Google had to power its real-time search will be discontinued and instead, powered by Google+ in its latest move to push the social network.

Nokia has cut prices of smartphones across its portfolio from early July in an attempt to slow the decline of its share in the higher-end of the cellphone market, two industry sources said on Tuesday.

Google has temporarily disabled the Realtime feature, which gives users results from Twitter and a bunch of other real-time news sources, on its search engine after a 2009 Twitter deal expired.

Samsung has sold 3 million Galaxy S2 smartphones worldwide, excluding the US.

A report says Apple has ordered production of 15 million iPhone 5's. The report says the iPhone 5 will have only minor upgrades from the iPhone 4, and that the product will ship in September.

Apple has placed an order for 15 million iPhone 5s with Taiwan-based note-book maker Pegatron Technology which will start shipping them in September 2011.