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Alliance announced with goal of cheaper Internet around the world

Oct 07, 2013 (UPI)

World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has announced a cross-industry coalition that wants to bring cheaper Internet to the developing world. Berners-Lee introd...

New devices drive global IT spending: survey

Oct 07, 2013 (AFP)

Global spending on information technology is expected to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, driven by growth in connected devices ranging from jewelry to refrigerator...

IPO spotlights Twitter co-founders

Oct 06, 2013 (AFP)

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who sold blogging platform startup Pyra Labs to Google a decade ago, will cash in anew when the hot one-to-many messaging serv...

Google hoping Nexus 5 can repeat sales success of the 4

Oct 05, 2013 (UPI)

The smartphone world is awaiting the release of Google's next flagship phone -- the Nexus 5, expected by the end of the month -- and will watch to see if it can...

Twitter wants to fly with billion-dollar IPO

Oct 04, 2013 (AFP)

Twitter on Thursday unveiled plans to pump up the globally popular one-to-many messaging service with a $1 billion stock market debut. The initial public offeri...

Fewer smartphones but more tablet computers for British children

Oct 03, 2013 (UPI)

The number of British children with mobile phones has fallen for the first time but only because more and more are turning to tablet computers, a report says. T...

'Pirate' wanted online black market to change world

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

The man known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" saw the potential for his online black market for drugs and other illegal wares as a way to free the world from governme...

Twitter marked by rapid rise since launch

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

Twitter, which Thursday revealed its plans to go public, came to life on March 21, 2006 when co-founder Jack Dorsey's account (@jack) automatically sent out the...

Internet technology becoming cyber chic

Oct 02, 2013 (AFP)

Models wearing Google Glass eyewear, Pebble smartwatches and other hot gadgets strutted a catwalk late Monday as Internet technology continued to merge with the...

Icahn presses Apple for $150 bn share buyback

Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)

Activist investor Carl Icahn said Tuesday he wants Apple to launch an additional share buyback of $150 billion to help boost the company's struggling stock valu...

New York spreading wireless access across city

Sep 30, 2013 (AFP)

Free Internet access will be given to more neighborhoods across New York as the Big Apple aims to build a "wireless corridor" designed to boost business, offici...

Program seeks Internet use equality for women

Sep 30, 2013 (UPI)

More women in the Western Hemisphere's less developed countries are set to benefit from technological equality as IT companies move in to narrow the gender gap ...

Windows Phone gains in Europe, Apple up in US: survey

Sep 30, 2013 (AFP)

Windows-based smartphones are making significant inroads in Europe, while Apple's iPhone is strengthening its position in the United States, a survey showed Mon...

Line, WeChat: Asian social networks move to conquer Europe

Sep 29, 2013 (AFP)

Move aside Facebook and Skype. Asian social networks, already hugely popular on their continent, have set their sights on Europe where they could prove stiff co...

Fake online reviews get reality check

Sep 29, 2013 (AFP)

Fake online products reviews have been around for years, fueled by unscrupulous marketers seeking to boost sales. But a recent crackdown by authorities in New Y...

Samsung moves to appease EU on Apple patent fight

Sep 27, 2013 (AFP)

South Korea's Samsung has answered accusations by Brussels that the company abused its dominant market position by taking out unfair injunctions against rival A...

Samsung says to unveil smartphone with curved display

Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)

Samsung said Wednesday it would unveil a smartphone with a curved display in October -- a technological innovation aimed at maintaining its lead in a lucrative ...

Court rules Apple, local firm can use iPhone in Brazil

Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)

A court has ruled that Apple can use the trademark iPhone in Brazil, ending the exclusive rights Brazilian firm Gradiente had been given by INPI, the Latin Amer...

UCLA engineers develop a stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Imagine an electronic display nearly as clear as a window, or a curtain that illuminates a room, or a smartphone screen that doubles in size, stretching like ru...

EU says school children lack e-learning facilities

Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)

With 63 percent of Europe's nine-year-olds in schools missing vital digital equipment, the European Commission launched a vast plan Wednesday to promote e-learn...