TECHNOLOGY

Telecom gear maker Alcatel-Lucent is very confident of hitting a target to improve its operating margin this year and expects new products and cost cuts to support profitability beyond that.

Google has announced that it is trying to fix a vulnerability exposed in Android phones by a group of researchers at a German university which allows hackers to get hold of a user's contact and calendar data over open Wi-Fi network.

U.S. retailer Sears Holdings Corp reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss as sales at its namesake stores plunged both at its home turf and in Canada.

Apple has trumped Google and Amazon's unlicensed music locker offerings by availing a cloud-music licensing deal with EMI Music.

The Endeavour astronauts, aboard the orbiting space station complex, are close to accomplishing the primary objective of their mission, NASA said.

Microsoft and some smaller software vendors still have a shot in the fast-changing smartphone race even though Google and Apple are pulling rapidly ahead, industry executives said.

Rising inventories of unsold cellphones and slower demand growth in emerging countries will cap cellphone market growth in 2011, research firm Gartner said on Thursday.

Days after restoring the PlayStation Network that had been taken down after a massive hacker attack, Sony faced niggling issues with some features on the PlayStation website and had to temporarily take it off.

Cupertino, California-based Apple may launch its new models of MacBook Air in June or July, Digitimes reported citing sources from supply chain.

Apple and Google smartphones may come under tighter regulation in Europe after a data protection panel ruled that data on the location of their users should be classed as private, the Financial Times said Thursday.

Chinese piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. software and a wide range of other intellectual property cost American businesses an estimated $48 billion in 2009, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a report released on Wednesday.

The growth of on-line casinos offers new temptations for problem gamblers, but the Internet should also provide avenues to treat them, according to a report in a leading medical journal on Wednesday.

A news leak reveals the future roadmap for T-Mobile's 2011 device list that includes plenty of Android and Blackberry devices. No iPhone or Window Phones were listed suggesting they were ignored for the 2011 lineup. The exclusion of iPhone may come as no surprise after T-Mobile said it will not offer iPhones in the immediate future due to acquisition agreements following the announced merger with AT&T. Windows Phone fans can hope that T-Mobile will follow through with offering the Nokia ...

Trend-setting products launched by Apple Inc are a key factor in Intel Corp's plans for new processors, a senior executive of the world's top chipmaker said.

Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) is hot issue again, and this time Sony doesn’t have malicious hackers to redirect the wrath of furious customers.

LinkedIn's IPO will be priced at $45 per share, which values the entire company at close to $4.3 billion.

Intel’s general manager of software and service Renee James is not worried at the fact that Windows 8 will be available for ARM-based PC because it will not run legacy applications. Windows 8 for Intel’s x86 will.

While reports are floating around what Apple is likely to pack into its next iPhone, analysts are observing slowdown in sales of the current iPhone 4.

Despite the recall of 1,000 Research in Motion's (RIM) PlayBook tablets due to an OS glitch, the popularity of the PlayBook remains unaffected -it has been reported that the BlackBerry maker has recovered by selling 250,000 devices in month of April. The estimates were noted from RBC analyst Mick Abramsky collected information from 180 Best Buy locations with results showing 84% of 64BG RIM PlayBooks sold were in late April.

Google says there was a security flaw in Android 2.34, but it has been fixed.

Next Issue Media, a joint venture in digital publishing, finally unveiled its digital newsstand, albeit an early edition of a product that the company has yet to complete. The newsstand is expected to launch Wednesday as a preview on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab from Verizon Wireless. The Galaxy Tab uses Google’s Android mobile operating system.

Sony says there was a URL exploit, which forced it to shut down the Playstation.com log-in for the PSN briefly.

Just when people are thinking the PlayStation network hack was a thing of the past, it has quickly come back to haunt them. A password exploit in the system has prompted the company to shut down the network for patch the security loophole.

Bill Gates approved and supported the Microsoft-Skype deal.

Hackers are increasingly aiming attacks at smartphones, touching off a race among software giants, startups and telecom operators seeking to cash in on ways to help consumers protect themselves.

Microsoft has promised to give a brand new Xbox 360 for free if the upcoming update makes new game discs incompatible with the player's console.

Intel's CEO Paul Otellini took a few shots at ARM in both mobile and PC.

Japanese camera and copier maker Canon Inc <7751.T> expects its quake-hit supply chain to recover more quickly than originally estimated, giving a roughly 50 billion yen ($600 million) boost to its annual sales, the company's chief executive said.

Rovio Mobile, creator of hit iPhone game Angry Birds, is aiming for a stock market listing in New York in two to three years, its chief executive told Reuters.