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Jul 03, 2013 (AFP)

Yahoo forged ahead Wednesday on its months-long take-over binge with word that it had bought Xobni, a startup behind tools for better managing contact lists and...

Yahoo buys startup behind smartphone movie app

Jul 02, 2013 (AFP)

Yahoo on Tuesday announced it has bought a startup behind a smartphone movie application, extending a shopping spree launched after Marissa Mayer became chief o...

Apple seeks iWatch trademark in Japan

Jul 02, 2013 (AFP)

Apple has filed a trademark application for an "iWatch" in Japan, fuelling speculation the US tech giant is preparing to introduce a wearable computing device t...

Internet overlords close to opening new online domains

Jun 29, 2013 (AFP)

The agency in charge of website addresses passed a major milestone Friday on the path to broadening the world of domain names by the end of this year. The board...

Can Windows 8.1 mollify up-in-arms Windows users?

Jun 29, 2013 (UPI)

Windows 8.1 is seen as Microsoft's attempt to regain the customer favor lost with the release of Windows 8 and its controversial user interface, but is it more ...

Murdoch splits empire into two firms

Jun 28, 2013 (AFP)

Rupert Murdoch split his corporate empire into two parts Friday under a long-promised plan to "unlock value" by separating high-flying entertainment operations ...

News Corp, Murdoch open new post-breakup chapter

Jun 28, 2013 (AFP)

A new chapter opens Friday for Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp with the split of the media-entertainment conglomerate as the 82-year-old coincidentally goes th...

Pricey but worth it: Cubans finally surf the Web

Jun 28, 2013 (AFP)

Cuban teacher Nancy Garcia would love to surf the Web at home. But since that is restricted in this communist country, she now logs on from new hotspots -- at a...

Ultra-wired South Korea battles smartphone addiction

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

Kim Nam-Hee pulls no punches as she warns a classroom of wide-eyed South Korean 10-year-olds that they stand on the edge of an addiction that will turn them all...

Wireless revolution reaches Brazil's favelas

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

Brazilian tour guide Thiago Firmino notices that the two cable cars servicing the working-class neighborhood of Dona Marta, on a steep hillside overlooking Rio,...

Control an iPhone with a nod of the head? Apple said working on it.

Jun 27, 2013 (UPI)

Apple may be testing motion control features that would allow users to control their iPhones by moving their heads, a U.S. tech-watching website reported. 9to5 ...

Sharp to make cutting-edge LCDs in China

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sharp on Thursday announced it would produce cutting-edge liquid crystal display panels for tablet computers, smartphones ...

Wearable computers a smart fashion trend

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

The notion of being fashionably smart is getting a makeover as Internet-linked computers get woven into formerly brainless attire such as glasses, bracelets and...

Software tracks facial expressions to gauge on-line learning success

Jun 27, 2013 (UPI)

Tracking facial expressions can gauge emotions of students in interactive online learning and predict the effectiveness of online tutoring, U.S. scientists say....

Touchscreen device can replace 'check, please!' for diners

Jun 27, 2013 (UPI)

A Washington tech start-up says its new portable device can allow restaurant diners do a self-checkout right from their table, rather than wait for a waiter. Ab...

Discovery could boost Internet bandwidth

Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)

A new fiber optic technology could increase Internet bandwidth capacity by sending data along light beams that twist like a tornado rather than move in a straig...

Sharp to make cutting-edge LCDs in China: report

Jun 26, 2013 (AFP)

Troubled Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp is to produce cutting-edge LCD panels for smartphones in a Chinese joint venture from as early as 2015, a report ...

Microsoft woos developers with 're-blended' Windows

Jun 26, 2013 (AFP)

Microsoft on Wednesday courted application makers with a "re-blended" version of the overhauled Windows 8 operating system released late last year. Windows 8.1 ...

European Union says no 'right to be forgotten' in data privacy laws

Jun 26, 2013 (UPI)

Data privacy law in the European Union does not give citizens the "right to be forgotten," an EU court has ruled. The opinion handed down Tuesday by Niilo Jaask...

Bands urge fans to put the phone down

Jun 26, 2013 (AFP)

There are few experiences which compare to the life-affirming thrill of a live music event, knowing that you are one of a privileged few being treated to a disp...