Microsoft sues Motorola over Android phones
Signage for Motorola is displayed outside their office building in Tempe, Arizona October 29, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott Microsoft Corp sued Motorola...
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Signage for Motorola is displayed outside their office building in Tempe, Arizona October 29, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott Microsoft Corp sued Motorola...
Computer experts have warned that a "super" virus has attacked more than 6 million personal computers and almost 1,000 corporate computers in China, Xinhua said Friday. The Stuxnet cyberworm can ...
The fossil of a giant penguin that lived 36 million years ago has been discovered in Peru. Scientists say the find shows that key features of the plumage were present quite early on in penguin evo...
Women using IVF to get pregnant should be aware that they will be more likely to have a boy than a girl, say experts. Australian researchers found the odds of a boy went up from 51 in 100 when con...
Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has claimed he is the victim of contaminated food after testing positive for a banned drug. The muscle-building and fat-burning drug clenbuterol...
The life expectancy of Singaporeans has improved slightly, where those born last year can expect to live up to 81.4 years compared with 80.9 years in 2008, according to a latest population trends re...
Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, c...
The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Thursday it has started to ship its flagship smartphone model the N8. Last week Nokia said it has delayed by a few weeks deliveries of the N8 model to...
Cyclist Alberto Contador, winner of the 2010 Tour de France, has revealed that he has tested positive for a banned substance. Contador's press officer said he had tested positive for clenbuterol d...
One-fifth of the world's plants - the foundation of life on Earth - are at risk of extinction, a study concludes. Researchers have sampled almost 4,000 species, and conclude that 22% should be cl...
Web search terms are a good predictor of the success of films, songs and video games even weeks ahead of release, researchers say. The findings echo a study in April showing that the number of me...
Exclusive breastfeeding for six months wards off baby infections, further evidence suggests. Regardless of other factors, such as good healthcare and vaccination programmes, breastfeeding still gi...
The company unveiled its tablet computer to much anticipation at its developer conference, DEVCON, in San Francisco. This is the first business-centric device in the tablet market. It is seen as...
Pre-orders for Apple Inc's iPhone 4 in China have exceeded 200,000 units since the handsets went on sale on Saturday, China Unicom said, adding that it has stopped taking online orders because of st...
The United Arab Emirates is "very optimistic" about reaching an agreement in a dispute with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion before an official deadline, a top Abu Dhabi official said. The...
Apple has embarked on a legal battle over the right to use the word "pod". The row has come about because of a projector called Video Pod currently being developed by start-up Sector Labs. When ...
Neanderthals were keen on innovation and technology and developed tools all on their own, scientists say. A new study challenges the view that our close relatives could advance only through contac...
The Russian Soyuz TMA-18 with three crew members on board has landed safely at 09:22 Moscow time (0522 GMT) on the Kazakh steppe, China's Xinhua news agency quoted the Mission Control center outside...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million gift to the beleaguered public schools of Newark, New Jersey, to help improve public education in a city he has no connection to. The...
A fossilised flower found in Patagonia by an Argentinean team is shedding light on the origins of sunflowers. The large flower is highly unusual because most plant fossils are just pollen grains. ...
There may be a very good reason why people clutch a painful area of their body after receiving an injury, according to a study. Touching the affected area allows a picture of the body to form in t...
Three crew members have returned to the International Space Station after the Russian Soyuz capsule due to take them home failed to undock. The two Russians and one American had been due to retur...
Drivers distracted by talking or texting on cell phones killed an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007, U.S. researchers reported. The estimate, one of the first scientific attempts to quan...
A widely-used diabetes drug should be pulled from the market, European regulators say. Avandia is used to control blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. It was licensed 10 years ago and...
A fifth child has died in Peru in an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats, say health officials. The death in the northern Amazon region brings the total number of people killed in the outbr...
Dell Inc Chief Executive Michael Dell showed off a new seven-inch tablet and said the computer maker is on track to bring in more than $60 billion in revenue this year. Dell appeared on stage...