TECHNOLOGY

A British communications company is set to launch a satellite today that will provide broadband communications to rural residents and businesses in Europe.

The holiday season means some of the busiest days for companies such as Fedex and UPS.

CPI International, Inc. (CPII), which makes broadcast and wireless components, said it agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of private-equity firm Veritas Capital for about $525 million in cash.

Some studies indicate that Cyber Monday and other web promotions have taken customers out of line on Black Friday.

Apple has acquired a 98-acre campus from PC giant Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in Cupertino, California.

Windows Phone 7 saw 80 per cent increase in the number of developers registering apps and games with the platform in two months since its launch, Todd Brix, Senior Director for Windows Marketplace at Microsoft, wrote in the official blog.

A study from Pew Internet indicates the richer you are, the more times per day you use the internet.

India expects to spend about $95.47 billion on information and communication technology (ICT) in the country by 2014, driven primarily by hardware and telecom, according to research firm Gartner.

Stephen Baker. senior industry analyst for consumer technology at NPD Group, expects that overall that consumer electronics will not perform as well as they have the past couple of years this holiday season.

F.C.C. Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to get the ball rolling on allowing people to text 9-1-1.

Social networking sites are killing the spelling ability of children to a great extent, a research by the English Spelling Society has found, AP reports.

The four-inch plastic action figure of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs will no more be in the market as the iPhone maker's law firm has sent a cease-and-desist letter to MIC Gadget that created the figure.

SAP AG will be paying Oracle 1.3 billion in damages, one of the largest awards ever given in a copyright infringement suit.

The Man of 'Man vs. Wild', “Bear Grylls, is all set to release an application for iPhone which will show users how to survive in hostile wildernesses.

Despite the tablet market getting crowded by each day, the demand for iPad continues to surge and could see rush orders as early as next week.

Sen. Franken says Comcast may be gun-jumping with its impending merger with NBC Universal and thus violating antitrust laws.

In the midst of bankruptcy, TerreStar has unveiled its new handset.

Copia, a maker of e-reader systems, has unveiled a social networking platform.

Given the explosive expansion of electronic gadgets in recent years, the demand for lithium has surged. Now, with the imminent development of more electric and hybrid vehicles (whose batteries will increasingly use lithium), demand for this obscure metal could skyrocket.

Popular geolocation services such as Facebook Places, Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt could easily reveal the position of US armed forces to the enemy, U.S. Air Force has warned.

Web pioneer Google, which effectively weaned people off newspapers and everything that was 'old guard', has surprisingly come back to the print medium. The tech giant has been publishing newspaper advertisements on Google Chrome as well as its newly launched Web guidebook.

Nortel is accusing Genband of trying to push down the price of its internet protocol and application solutions business.

A whopping 20 percent of all Facebook users are active targets of malware through malicious posts, a study has revealed.

Sales of the BlackBerry’s latest Torch 9800, which were initially hit by its high price, have zoomed in the US market after its prices were slashed by half earlier this month.

It’s the status updates of travelers on various social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter that is helping them keep in touch with friends and family while on the go, according to a global survey conducted by Sheraton Hotels & Resorts.

Viacom becomes the latest to block its content from Google TV

With Verizon set to roll out their 4G network, AT&T touts recent study proclaiming its network to be the best.

Google will no more use its Street View Cars technology to collect information and said on Sunday it is ready to delete all personal data collected by Street View cars.

The bloodhound SuperSonic car has been designed to run at speeds up to 1,050 mph, powered by jet and rocket that produce the equivalent of 180 F1 cars. Its top speed of 1,050 mph is faster than a bullet from a .357 Magnum handgun.