TECHNOLOGY

Finland's Rovio Mobile, known for its Angry Birds puzzle video game, unveiled on Friday payment software that gives mobile telecom operators a chance to win a share of booming app store business.

Apple Inc is working on a smaller iPad tablet with built-in cameras that could ship early next year, according to manufacturers in Asia.

Before there was an Apple store under a giant futuristic cube near New York's Central Park or beneath a sleek glass cylinder in Shanghai, there was store 001 on the second floor of a 70s-era suburban California shopping mall.

It may look like just any other laptop, but on the inside the Google's first Chrome OS Laptop - the Cr-48 is a distinct breed.

Apple Inc is preparing new iPads, including models that are about half the size of the current tablet computer, and will include front- and back-mounted cameras, supply chain sources told Reuters.

Google has released its year-end search report - Zeitgeist 2010. Among the personalities and events that figure on search trends list are Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Oil Spill, World Cup, Haiti Earthquake and more.

The company supports an initiative to create hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure in Hawaii.

Twitter is ending the year with the number of accounts touching the 100 million mark. To celebrate, the site has created an infographic on Twitter's 'Class of 2010', which includes Bill Gates, Kanye West, Tiger Woods and many more.

Despite having strong sales on Black Friday, most consumers are still being cautious about holiday spending, with the majority of them saying they plan to spend about the same as last year, according to a report by NPD Group.

One of China's largest social networking companies, Oak Pacific Interactive, has hired investment banks for an initial public offering in the United States next year, the first in a rush of Chinese Facebook clones looking to list.

Component suppliers for Apple Inc's iPad are gearing up for a new round of production in the first quarter, sources said on Friday, with one saying the product will be a revamp of the popular tablet computer including front- and back-mounted cameras.

TSMC, the world's biggest contract chipmaker, saw its smallest year-on-year sales growth in four months as demand slowed, while analysts say a new crop of smartphones and tablet PCs could spur demand next year.

Venezuela plans to include the Internet in a law that regulates the media, under a proposed bill presented to parliament on Thursday that the opposition claims will result in censorship.

The website attacks launched by supporters of WikiLeaks show 21st-century cyber warfare evolving into a more amateur and anarchic affair than many predicted.

While it may make some strategic sense for Yahoo and AOL to combine some of their operations, she sees little hope for the resulting merged entity to mount a challenge against the reigning monarch of the search-engine market, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).

TerreStar Networks is facing a more court fights with creditors over its reorganization plan.

Having just touched an all-time high in price, demand for copper is expected to be very strong in the coming years, driven primarily by China’s insatiable hunger for commodities of all kinds to support its relentless program of mass urbanization.

Iran has temporarily released on bail a pioneering Iranian blogger who has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison, a rights group said on Thursday.

Dell Inc deserves more credit for a gradual but steady transformation from its roots as a computer maker into a full-service technology vendor, an overhaul that will take time, its CEO said.

Dell Inc offered to buy data storage company Compellent Technologies Inc for nearly $1 billion, three months after losing out to Hewlett-Packard Co in a bidding war for another storage firm, 3Par.

Final bids are due within weeks for blocks of patents owned by Canada's once mighty telecom giant Nortel Networks, including some that could change the balance of power among mobile operators.

Sprint Nextel Corp plans to expand its tablet computer portfolio in 2011 to court business customers looking to replace expensive laptop computers with the lower cost devices, according to a top executive for the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator.

Google has opened a 40,000-square-foot office in Pittsburgh, the search giant said in its official blog.

The company talks about its multimode technology, while showing faith in Clearwire.

Speaking to investors this week, Level 3 and Comcast both presented their side of the spat over payments for network traffic.

Google has released a new version of YouTube app on the Android market.

Telecom gear maker Nokia Siemens Networks is set to become the latest foreign company to pledge its support to the Kremlin's new flagship technology hub near Moscow, the head of the hub said on Thursday.

Dell Inc is in talks to buy data storage company Compellent Technologies Inc

Production at one of Toshiba Corp's key chip factories has been halted by a brief cut in power, the company said, hitting its output of NAND flash memory and likely helping rivals such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics.