TECHNOLOGY

Texas Instruments Inc is buying National Semiconductor Corp for $6.5 billion, paying a rich 78 percent premium to merge two of the industry's oldest firms into a dominant force in analog microchips used in products ranging from phones to cars.

Sony plans to release its version of Android 3.0 tablet codenamed S1 by the end of summer.

Apple Inc. is widely expected to release its own iTunes-related cloud strategy soon likely integrating its MobileMe services and taking advantage of its investments in its North Carolina data center, Barcalys Capital said.

Britain's first official royal app was launched on Tuesday, and with the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton just weeks away, unsurprisingly it focuses on royal weddings.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and flat screens, is likely to report a third consecutive quarterly drop in earnings for the January-March period, hit by tumbling prices of flat screens and TVs.

Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group will rebalance its benchmark Nasdaq 100 index, cutting the weighting of widely held stocks, such as Apple Inc, and causing volatility as investors adjust their portfolios.

Months ahead of the release of Apple's next iPhone, AT&T has increased the price of upgrading the device.

New data from ComScore puts Google Android on the top of the list for the smartphone market category, followed by RIM and Apple in the second and the third positions respectively.

Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group Inc said on Tuesday it will rebalance its benchmark Nasdaq-100 index, cutting the weighting of Apple Inc.

Financial Times takes up the cudgel against Apple, saying no to parting with subscribers' data as part of Apple's new subscription policy, which requires that if a subscription is made using its App Store, then Apple would not share customer data with publishers.

Apple's iPad 2 topped the charts among the 10 most-promising tablet computers, according to ConsumerReports.

Epsilon, the world's largest permission-based email marketing Services Company that serves TiVo users and many more, reported a breach in its security Friday and the list of companies affected keeps on growing, Mashable reported today.

Microsoft is crafting the new OS version, Windows 8, from a position of strength. There haven’t been many clues as to when the release will take place but the tech world is frenzied over the possible arrival of Windows 8 early next year. Here's a look at what could be the features of Windows 8.

Tens of millions of customers and employees of major banks, hotels and retailers are now at risk of spear-phishing attacks after hackers stole their email addresses in what may become one of the biggest data breaches ever, security experts warned.

Technology entrepreneur Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster and the founding president of Facebook, has become engaged, his spokesman said on Monday.

A data breach involving online marketer Epsilon, whose clients are a Who's Who of major banks and retailers, was only the latest in a string of hacking attacks aimed at getting email records for more thefts, security experts warned on Monday.

The U.S. is investigating how customer data is used by some popular applications that run on the mobile platforms of Apple Inc and Google Inc.

Potentially millions of customer names an email addresses of retailers and financial institutions have been compromised as attackers breached a high-profile online marketer.

A U.S. federal appeals court threw out challenges to controversial Internet traffic rules adopted in December, saying the complaints were filed too early.

Texas Instruments Inc plans to buy smaller rival National Semiconductor for about $6.5 billion in one of the microchip industry's largest deals in years.

Online radio service Pandora Media Inc said it has been subpoenaed by a Federal grand jury investigating the use of customer data by certain popular applications that run on mobile platforms of Apple Inc and Google Inc's Android.

iPhone upgrade fees have increased by $50, the company confirms.

The hacker collective Anonymous has posted a warning to Sony that it plans an attack of some kind as revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3.

Via the service, GameStop will allow Power Up Rewards members to stream games directly to tablet computers like the iPad and Motorola Xoom

Sony's Honeycomb tablet will be available by end of the summer.

Google has put in a $900 million bid for Nortel Networks' patent portfolio, which could make it a real player in mobile technology and forestall lawsuits over its smartphone line.

Company has 'no desire' to get into smartphones, executives say

Larry Page takes over as chief executive officer three months after it was announced Eric Schmidt was resigning.

A company that supplies radiation safety and protection personnel to the nuclear power industry, is looking for people to go to Japan who might want to work in the Fukushima reactor complex.