TECHNOLOGY

While the LivingSocial deal offering a $20 Amazon gift card for $10 was too good for many, there were several secret angels working behind the marketing and promotion of the gift cards - celebrities such as Snooki, Paris Hilton among others

Sophos reported that cyber attacks on social networking sites nearly doubled in 2010, a clear sign that the threat continues to grow at an alarming rate. A study by the IT security and control firm reveals dramatic increase in malware, phishing and spam through social networks, most prominently Facebook.

iPhone maker Apple was criticized by Chinese green groups for lax corporate oversight of its suppliers in China, leading to poor environmental and work safety standards that poisoned dozens of factory workers.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Thursday posted lower-than-expected profit and sales during its key year-end quarter and said it expects only modest growth in the handset market this year.

Nintendo, one of the leading video game companies in the world, said it will launch its glasses-free portable 3D gaming console -- Nintendo 3DS - in U.S. on March 27.

HTC missed the CES 2011tablet mania but that does mean it has no tablet plans, in fact it is due to launch not one but three tablets in the first half of 2011

InkSure Technologies has launched CarSure, a forensic-level reader that can read taggants (optical coses) and authenticate documents through car windows.

Google Inc. on Wednesday kicked off the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, a competition that calls on K-12 students in the U.S. to think big and redesign Google's homepage logo, inspired by the theme 'What I'd like to do someday...'

Chinese green groups on Thursday accused iPhone maker Apple of failing to properly oversee its Chinese suppliers, leading to poor environmental and safety standards, and dozens of poisoned factory workers.

Apple plans to take on Facebook with its new social network features.

Rumours began circulating yesterday that Apple's (AAPL) white Iphone 4 will finally start making its way to shelves form February 27th.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it had acquired Dutch display firm Liquavista, which specializes in electronic paper technology, as the world's biggest LCD screen maker seeks to expand in the booming mobile display market.

Seagate Technology Plc reported sharply lower profit on Wednesday as sales of its computer hard drives and storage devices fell and it recorded restructuring costs as it gears up for a massive share buyback after the failure of a private equity takeover deal.

A committee of Hewlett Packard directors will investigate former CEO Mark Hurd's departure from the company amid sexual harassment allegations last year, according to a recent court filing.

Nokia has pulled out of a plan to launch a smartphone with No. 2 U.S. mobile provider AT&T Inc, just before the device was supposed to be announced, a person familiar with the matter said.

A pension fund wants shareholders to vote for a written succession plan for Apple.

More technology and engineering workers got bonuses and pay raises last year than in 2009, but the pay hikes were tiny for professionals outside large corporations and Silicon Valley, according to a survey by Dice.com, part of online recruiter Dice Holdings Inc .

A top Nintendo Co Ltd executive said reaction to a health warning on its new 3D handheld game player was overblown, portraying as routine the warning that hit its shares two weeks ago.

The local coupon company LivingSocial made headlines on Wednesday with a half-price Amazon gift card, the largest deal in the company's history.

Although there were no lines of eager customers forming outside computer stores in Tehran on the day that Apple's iPad was introduced to the world last year, the tablet computer -- the newest global must-have gadget -- has quietly appeared in Iranian shops, despite tightened sanctions.

Scientists have moved a step closer to creating ultra-fast quantum computers by generating 10 billion bits of quantum entanglement in silicon for the first time.

The two hackers arrested in connection with hacking into AT&T's database of iPad 3G email addresses will have a tough time proving they weren't acting maliciously, according ot a least one legal expert.

Games, social networking and entertainment are the most popular apps for iOS.

The famous adult magazine will be creating a digital version of the publication as well as a non-nude app for the iPad.

The text of the 14-page complaint against the iPad hackers.

RBC Capital Markets has adjusted its 2011 estimates of carrier Verizon to account for the iPhone 4 launch in early February 2011.

If anyone needed proof that cyber activists can create havoc in the real world, the last few weeks have provided evidence in megabytes.

The gaming console comes with extensive 3D capabilities.

Coffee chain unveils mobile payment app for iPhones and Blackberrys.