TECHNOLOGY

Google announced a new search application for its Android mobile operating system, designed to boost user productivity, but has Android users outside of the U.S. upset as it is only available in the U.S. market.

The defining technology trade show of the '80's and '90's is making a return this November, revived as an online-only event.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the popular social-networking site public, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Japanese group Olympus Corp is aiming for its small, lightweight models to have 20 percent of the high-end digital camera market in three years, up from 5 percent now, its president said.

The hackers behind the attacks on Google Inc and dozens of other companies operating in China stole valuable computer source code by breaking into the personal computers of employees with privileged access, a security firm said on Wednesday.

Despite the twin challenges of a global recession and dwindling desktop PC sales, unit shipments of LCD monitors increased by 3.8 percent in 2009, a far better result than vendors expected in the dark days of January 2009, according to iSuppli Corp.

Twitter plans to adopt Google's very successful Ad Model for its own website. Twitter will let advertisers sign up to have their ads show up as tiny 140-word posts when users search through Twitter or through other search engines that use its API.

The number of spam messages being sent globally is reaching new heights, with nearly 90 percent of all emails sent last month being illegitimate.

Russia announced a halt to space tourism on Wednesday, saying it would struggle to ferry professional crews to the International Space Station after the U.S. mothballs its shuttle fleet this year.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC defended itself against a brought on by Apple yesterday, saying it doesn't infringe, but develops its own technologies.

Netbook PC pioneer Asustek is satisfied with its business so far this quarter and still aims to become the world's No.3 laptop vendor in 2011, the company's chairman told Reuters on Tuesday.

China's Lenovo, the world's No.4 personal computer maker, said it will develop more products this year for the mobile Internet, attempting to gain ground after a late start into the hot smartphone market.

The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported on Wednesday.

Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software launched last year and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, its chief operating officer said.

Spanish criminals who stole bank details from computers around the world did not realize the power of the illegal network they had created which could have paralyzed an entire country's computer systems, police said.

Spanish police have arrested three men accused of masterminding one of the biggest computer crimes to date -- infecting more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data.

Internet telephony firm Skype took a second major leap into the wireless market in just a few weeks, unveiling software from top phone maker Nokia Oyj which could run on more than 200 million smartphones around the world.

TiVo Inc introduced a television set-top box on Tuesday that simplifies finding videos from Web outlets like Netflix and YouTube in addition to local program listings.

Spanish police have arrested three men accused of masterminding one of the biggest computer crimes to date -- infecting more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data.

AT&T Inc expects users of Apple Inc's iPad to connect to the Internet mostly using short-range Wi-Fi networks rather than AT&T's cellular network, the chief executive of AT&T said on Tuesday.

Northrop Grumman Corp said on Tuesday it was still reviewing the Air Force's final terms for a multibillion-dollar aerial tanker competition but was getting closer to a decision on whether to submit a bid with its European partner EADS .

The Obama administration on Tuesday declassified part of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative created during the Bush administration, outlining offensive and defensive strategies for protecting information networks.

Activision Blizzard Inc is forming a business unit for its blockbuster Call of Duty franchise, following the departure of two senior executives at the studio that developed the video game, the company said on Tuesday.

Qualcomm Inc.'s second-quarter earnings could beat its outlook range and revenue will be toward the high end of its target, the top executive for the wireless chip maker said on Tuesday.

As collaborative applications become ever more important for enterprise, a new report finds that the number of enterprise customers using mobile cloud-based applications will rise to more than 130 million by 2014, facilitated by platform as a service (PaaS) deployments from key players such as Google and Microsoft.

As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to present its National Broadband Plan to Congress March 17, the agency released details of its plans, including a promise to find 500MHz of spectrum for wireless broadband and a request for Congress to cough up $16 billion.

Nokia unveiled a new C5 smartphone model on Tuesday, hoping to benefit from a booming demand for cheap smartphones and from rising consumer appetite for mobile social networking.

Apple received ownership of its unibody computer design on Tuesday, two years after it first introduced the design in its laptops.

Cisco said on Tuesday that it is trying to create a network environment that enables users to securely log in using any device, from anywhere, using a simple, common, nearly-transparent access method.