TECHNOLOGY

TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - Though Asian girl bands such as Japan's AKB48 and South Korea's Wonder Girls are gaining fame around the world, Taiwanese performer Shara Lin goes them one better -- she is her own band, playing violin, zither and piano.

EU regulators opened on Monday in-depth probes into two takeover bids in the computer hardware sector involving two Asian companies and two U.S. peers, saying it was concerned the deals would reduce the number of rivals.

The two men who made BlackBerry a household name may not have the luxury of time to fix Research In Motion's flagging fortunes.

Taiwan's Asustek Computer demoed an interesting concept of a smartphone which docks into a tablet at the Computex IT trade fair in Taipei.

Samsung is demanding to see Apple's upcoming products as the legal melee between the companies escalates, and the schism between the competing allies widens.

After killing social-media giants MySpace and Orkut run by News Corp and Google respectively, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned his attention towards small and big animals alike.

The Public Broadcasting Service web site was defaced over the weekend with the hackers posting fake stories about Tupac Shakur being alive and in New Zealand.

Russian payment processing firm Chronopay denies it is connected to the Mac Defender malware that has infected thousands of Macintosh computers in the last few weeks.

Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP), the much-awaited handheld gaming device, may not show its face for months to come, but rumors are already flying thick and fast that it has a new name - PS Vita.

Photos of Asus PadFone, which fuses a tablet with a smartphone have surfaced on the Internet even before it has made its debut at Computex 2011, giving rise to the billion dollar question - will the idea catch on?

ChronoPay, a Russian payment service company, has vehemently denied accusations that Mac Defender, the first scamware ever to strike Apple computers, is its “brainchild.”

Wake Forest University, North Carolina, professor of Computer Science Errin Fulp, and his team of scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, are developing an army of ‘digital ants’ which will be set loose into the power grid of a computer to discover viruses in the system, a report in the university website said.

Hackers have infiltrated Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense equipment supplier's defenses, which the company termed as significant and tenacious.

British chip designer ARM Holdings Plc, which licenses its chip technology to other makers, will take any plan by Intel Corp to make chips for rivals very seriously, a top executive said on Monday.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia has unveiled its first gaming notebook graphics processing unit (GPU) in its GeForce 500M Series of notebook GPUs.

The U.S. government's biggest information technology provider Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) is the latest to fall victim to hackers, with its computer systems being hit by a network security transgression.

Close on the heels of Lockheed Martin admitting that it had been hacked, it has emerged that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and login and password information pertaining to employees as well as outside users of the site have been compromised.

As the much-awaited video-game conference, known as E3, kicks off in Los Angeles next week, the focus is on gaming majors and the new offerings up their sleeves. There have been rumors that Sony will use the E3 platform to name its Next Generation Portable, or PSP2, as ‘Vita’.

In an escalating legal melee, Samsung demanded access to upcoming iPhone and iPad products from Apple, widening the schism between the two allies who haven't always been the best of friends.

Dozens of Internet and network security experts from the government and industry are working to discover the origins of last week's attack on Lockheed Martin Corp's computer networks, according to a new report.

Lockheed Martin just recently admitted that it was hacked on May 21, 2011. It managed to stop the tenacious attack before any critical data was stolen.

After days of silence Apple is now addressing the high-profile virus that is threatening to ruin the pristine virus free world of the Mac OS.

Mark Zuckerberg - when he's not building Facebook - likes to give himself personal challenges to learn something about the world, expand my interests and teach myself greater discipline, he recently told a magazine.

The love-hate relationship between Apple and Samsung is taking a turn for the worse has the company's lawsuits against each other escalate, but Apple may finally pull the plug on the partnership as it shops for other partners.

Lockheed Martin Corp, the U.S. government's No. 1 provider of information technology services, said on Sunday that a tenacious cyberattack on its network last weekend was part of a pattern of frequent attacks on it from around the world.

Nokia and CNN have announced plans for a new mapping service to the network, a report in Mobiletor said

Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government's top information technology provider, said on Saturday it had thwarted a significant and tenacious attack on its information systems network a week ago but was still working to restore employee access.

Lockheed Martin Corp., the government's top information technology provider, said on Saturday it had thwarted a significant and tenacious attack on its information systems network a week ago but was still working to restore employee access.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that the new Windows 8 Operating System will be coming out in 2012. Microsoft will be planning to showcase the new Windows 8 for tablets starting next week at the All Things Digital conference.