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Apple's App Store reached landmark 10 billion downloads on Saturday, further underlining the lead of the iPhone-maker in mobile online software battle, a counter on front page of the store showed.

One day after Google's surprise announcement that Larry Page would once again run the company, investors and industry insiders were wondering if he is up to a now very different job.

China's Lenovo Group is in talks with Japan's NEC Corp for a joint venture in personal computers, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in a deal that would help them take on larger global rivals.

Gadget repair enthusiast blog says Apple is deliberately making the iPhone 4 impossible to open, but they can help solve that problem.

Sprint Nextel is expected to reward long-suffering investors with its first quarterly subscriber growth in more than three years, but the celebration may be short-lived.

One of France's biggest shipbuilders is working with a large builder of nuclear plants to develop a reactor that could be placed up to 100 meters (328 feet) below the surface.

The music industry is working to create a global repertoire database to make it easier and faster for new online music services to come to market.

More people going to their cell phones to access email.

Sprint Nextel is expected to reward long-suffering investors with its first quarterly subscriber growth in more than three years, but the celebration may be short-lived.

Concerns about Advanced Micro Devices Inc roll-out of its new PC chips hung over its shares, despite the company's expectations of a better-than-seasonal first quarter.

China's Lenovo Group is in talks with Japan's NEC Corp for a joint venture in personal computers, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in a deal that would help them take on larger global rivals.

Google Inc shares shed earlier gains as confidence that CEO Larry Page would rejuvenate the No. 1 Internet search company wavered.

Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald signs off his messages with a little joke: This email might have been written while cycling. It could be an apology for his spelling, an allusion to the fact he's Dutch or even a hint at his oddball imagination. Or perhaps, given Lens-Fitzgerald is the head of a company that wants to fuse the virtual and physical worlds, it could be taken literally.

Shares of Synaptics Inc fell 11 percent on Friday, a day after the touchpad maker said sales to its core market dropped during the second quarter hurt by weaker-than-anticipated PC sales.

HP is looking to move in a new direction by parting ways with Mark Hurd's supporters on its board of directors.

Verizon Communications plans to report a $600 million charge for the full year 2010 due to a change in the way it accounts for retirement benefits, following the lead of rival AT&T Inc.

Logitech says the mouse can be used on couches, pillows and beds.

Twitter accounts have been hijacked to send out links directing to a fake anti-virus website without the account user's permission.

Investors brushed aside concerns that a surprise shake-up at Google Inc putting co-founder Larry Page back in the top job would prove a distraction at a critical time and focused instead on the company's stellar results.

The changes at Google have been compared to those at another Internet giant, Yahoo!. But beyond the fact that a founder took over as CEO, the companies are in very different positions.

Notion Ink Adam’s official and the first unboxing was done by Rohan Shravan even before any tech Websites or journalist could do it. But Notion Ink Adam features show promise against Apple iPad

Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy announced a service under which customers pay only for the electricity consumed rather than buying its fuel cell energy servers.

Trapster, a site that warns iPhone, Blackberry and Android phone users of speed traps is now warning its 10 million or so users that their passwords and email addresses have been compromised.

Verizon has fired the first salvo against net neutrality, appealing the Federal Communications Commission rules in the courts.

One out of every five cellphones sold in the world are illegal or unlicensed copycats, hurting the position of producers like Nokia in emerging markets, the world top manufacturer by volume said on Friday.

Hewlett-Packard Co is shaking up a board criticized by many as dysfunctional, bringing in five new directors including former eBay chief Meg Whitman, as new CEO Leo Apotheker remakes the company.

Internet search engine Google plans to launch Google Offers, its own version of online discount-coupon sensation Groupon, to help notify subscribers about deals in their area.

Apple's walled garden approach is not merely limited to its Ios or Apps Store but even extends to its hardware as it just fenced its iPhone, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with new screw design, called Pentalobular, which cannot be opened using a standard screwdriver.