TECHNOLOGY

Facebook revamps News Feed feature to enable users to select from a slew of options on a drop-down menu in the Most Recent category.

Rovi Corp will pay $720 million in cash and stock to buy Sonic Solutions, which owns the popular digital video player software DivX, in a bid to broaden its footprint across the digital entertainment space.

In an extention of the TripAdvisor's controversial 'Trip Friends' feature on Facebook, the social networking site is now offering 'instant personalisation' service, which will highlight Facebook friends' holiday plans.

The next-generation iPad, or iPad 2, is said to have a flat back, smaller bezel and a wide-range speaker.

Almost 5 million Britons are expected to go online on Christmas Day and spend over 150 million pounds ($232 million) as they look to grab bargains and beat a rise in January in VAT sales tax, a retail group said on Thursday.

Sony Corp is in talks to buy a Japanese microchip production line from Toshiba Corp for an estimated 50 billion yen ($598 million) to boost its output of chips for cameras and mobile phones, an industry source said on Thursday.

Google said it bought a new office building in New York, in a deal reportedly for $1.77 billion.

China Tel will be putting $62 million into selling internet protocol telephony in Peru, via its subsidiary Perusat.

The company says it's returning to normal and that the problem was offline supernodes.

A recent survey from Zogby International says the majority of Americans think high-speed internet was the most impactful technological innovation of the last 10 years.

TerreStar Networks and its creditors have come to an agreement on the plan to get the company out of bankruptcy, though some obstacles remain.

The popular free web based voice service is down for most of its millions of users.

IBM will provide cloud computing software that will consolidate and integrate technology capabilities for critical command and control programs at NATO.

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.

After Pennsylvania case, Google again stumbles over another privacy issue as it’s Street View cameras captured the image of a Japanese woman’s underwear, said a report in Mainichi Daily.

National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) expects India’s IT-BPO industry to reach $70 billion mark by the end of the current fiscal following rise in demand for software technology products.

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.

Enterprise data warehousing company Teradata Corp agreed to buy privately held Aprimo for $525 million to expand into cloud software services, as it gears to meet challenges from larger rivals IBM and Oracle.

Apple Inc joined a growing number of U.S. corporations that have cut ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content and Twitter feed because it violated guidelines.

Internet connectivity in Pakistan is as low as 10 percent but opportunities for growth are evident, a team of Google and YouTube officials who visited the country early this month said in a blog post.

Idea Cellular , India's No. 6 mobile phone operator, said on Wednesday it has commissioned Nokia Siemens Network to build and manage its 3G network in four telecom zones and supply equipment.

Activision said its sales of its latest video game Call of Duty: Black Ops have surpassed the $1 billion mark since its launch in Nov.9, as global audiences have logged billions of hours online with Call of Duty games

Synology America Corp. has released its new Network Attached Storage (NAS) server -- DS1511+, a successor to their popular DS1010+ server model.

Some of the murky details surrounding Mark Hurd's abrupt exit from Hewlett-Packard Co last summer may be about to clear up, with federal regulators on the scent.

Online retailer Dangdang Inc, considered as China's answer to Amazon.com, aims for sales of general merchandise to exceed that of books and other media as it diversifies in the highly competitive e-commerce sector.

Microsoft Corp is working on a version of its core Windows operating system for devices such as tablets, according to media reports on Tuesday, and the company said its Windows Phone 7 software is making headway in the booming smartphone market.

Red Hat announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 third quarter, reporting a rise in operating income of 92 percent year over year.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the quickest video game ever to reach the $1 billion mark.

A divided Federal Communications Commission adopted Internet traffic rules on Tuesday, attracting warnings they would be rejected in the courts and threats from Republican lawmakers to overturn them.