TECHNOLOGY

Schematic images of the disaster struck reactors of the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, helping to understand the various reports about explosions and fires. There are 6 reactor blocks, which are all the same pre-1970 Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) General Electric Mark I design.

Apple Inc said it will delay the launch of the iPad 2 tablet computer in Japan, in the wake of last week's earthquake and tsunami.

In a closely-watched patent case before the Supreme Court, i4i has fired a brief at Microsoft saying that the latter wants to overturn a century of precedent in patent law.

Eager buyers formed huge lines last week for a chance to buy Apple's iPad 2 before it sold out.

Motorola Droid Bionic Equally Staged for Combat with HTC Inspire 4G

Launching within four months, the program will allow customers to make purchases with their NFC-enabled cell phones

The Galaxy S2 incorporated with appealing contours and upgraded technology, the device portrays impressive specifications and HTC Thunderbolt 4G will be first smartphone to feature LTE technology.

Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPod, the Zune, met an early death just four years after it was launched, adding another casualty to its list of hardware flops.

Prices for memory chips are rising as the earthquake in Japan has raised supply chain concerns.

Targeting heavy users, the company plans on restricting data use for its DSL and U-Verse customer.

Nearly half of all Americans are getting their news from mobile devices according to a recent survey.

Apple has decided not to include support for contactless payment in the iPhone 5, but the technology will likely be included in the iPhone 6.

An evidently impressed Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has shared an e-mail from a friend who works for Apple in Japan shedding light on the ways in which the tech giant stepped up and helped people caught off guard by Friday's earthquake.

Adobe is planning to release the fix for a critical vulnerability that affected certain versions of its flash player during the week of March 21, 2011.

Prices for key technology components extended gains on Tuesday, as damage at Japanese plants and infrastructure caused by Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami threatens to disrupt the global manufacturing chain longer than many had expected.

Alexandra Juhasz, a professor of media studies from Pitzer College, has worked on a video text book where the instruction is imparted through a combination of text and a series of Youtube videos.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) launched at SXSW gets a positive start with early reviews hailing the internet browser designed to counter Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Automakers, shipbuilders and technology companies worldwide scrambled for supplies after the disaster in Japan shut down factories there and disrupted the global manufacturing chain.

Texas Instruments warned on Monday of lost revenue from two of its semiconductor plants in Japan following the country's biggest-ever earthquake.

Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Leo Apotheker, outlining his vision for the company, promised to boost earnings and dividends sharply in coming years as it pushes aggressively into cloud computing.

Microsoft Corp is not planning any more versions of its unpopular Zune digital media player, but is to continue offering music and video using the same software online, through its Xbox game console and on its Windows phones.

Sprint announced its Kyocera Echo phone will officially launch on April 17.

Citing the low-cost price models and nimbleness of mobile developers, the Angry Birds creator sees the future of games in mobile devices.

CERN scientists said Monday they staged their first speed-of-light particle collisions of the year at the weekend, resuming their probes into the origins of the cosmos in the centre's Large Hadron Collider .

The execs' confirmation echoes Apple's previous Spring 2011 estimates.

Anonymous, the hacker collective, has released emails from Bank of America that a former employee says show the bank improperly foreclosed on homes during the financial crisis, but the emails seem to have little to do with home loans.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is joining AOL and its newest addition, the Huffington Post Media Group, as a strategic adviser for social impact.

Apple Inc sold close to 1 million units of its next-generation tablet computer during its debut weekend, analysts estimated.

Apple has a legitimate hit on its hands with the iPad 2 as the device sells out in the early going.