Google Stops Wave
Google is waving goodbye to Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online. It blamed poor take-up by users of the service, which was launched to great fa...
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Google is waving goodbye to Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online. It blamed poor take-up by users of the service, which was launched to great fa...
Children simply love to chew gum but most of the times their parents forbid them from doing so. However teenagers simply enjoy doing it. "I chew gum to keep away stress particularly when I need t...
Smartphones running Google's Android software were the top seller among consumers in the United States in the second quarter, industry tracker NPD said on Wednesday. Android accounted for one-thi...
Research In Motion unveiled the much-hyped BlackBerry Torch 9800 on Tuesday, a new touch-screen BlackBerry smartphone with a pull-out keyboard and a significantly updated operating system that is de...
Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users, a study in China has found. Researcher Lawrence La...
Keeping your heart fit and strong can slow down the ageing of your brain, US researchers say. A Boston University team found healthy people with sluggish hearts that pumped out less blood had "old...
Facebook has made its first steps into the search market. The social network has launched a trial of a feature called Questions, which allows people to pose queries to the site's 500 million user...
Reports that milk from a cloned cow's offspring is on sale in the UK are being investigated. The International Herald Tribune reported an unnamed British dairy farmer had said he used milk from a ...
I was touched by the picture of an ice cream seller in Penang that appeared in The Star on Saturday in the Thumbnails section. The vendor, though not shown in the picture, had put up a sign on his...
Twitter, the social networking site which lets users say something in up to 140 characters, has had its 20 billionth message posted. The landmark and rather opaque tweet was sent at 1544 GMT Satur...
Two security experts said they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc's Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim's email...
Bosses will have to be “extra careful” in the way they handle their employees with impending amendments to the Employment Act. And the first principle they should adopt, according to the Malay...
China took a further step on Sunday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services. A rocket carrying the fifth of a planned array of 35 orbiters bl...
Research In Motion will introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc's iPad, Bloomberg News reported, citing two people familiar with the company's plans. The Waterloo, Ontari...
Its name in Arabic is Wadi Hitan but it is known as the Valley of the Whales. For years archaeologists have been unearthing a remarkable collection of whale fossils, all the more surprising becaus...
For the first time, UK troops are using a special app developed for the iPad to learn how to handle a fire mission. That's when artillery is being fired at the enemy from several miles away. In...
Samsung Electronics Co plans to introduce tablet computers this quarter based on Google's Android operating system, joining a growing list of firms seeking to challenge Apple's popular iPad. Globa...
China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Depending on how f...
Google did not grab "significant" personal details when collecting data from wi-fi networks, according to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO). The finding came after the body reviewed s...
Calcium supplements taken by many older people could be increasing their risk of a heart attack, research shows. The study, in the British Medical Journal, said people who took supplements were 30...
Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows-powered tablet computers and smartphones designed to beat back advances by Apple Inc and Goo...
A computer hacker responsible for creating and operating a massive scam that infected as many as 12 million computers worldwide has been identified and arrested, authorities said. The FBI said i...
Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people fa...
Drinking alcohol can not only ease the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis it appears to reduce disease severity too, research suggests. Scientists at the University of Sheffield asked two groups of ...
Vodafone Essar Ltd. has unveiled a solar-powered mobile handset in India to better serve the nation's energy-starved rural masses. India has been adding nearly 20 million mobile subscribers each m...
South Korean scientists said Tuesday that they have developed a technology to artificially create spider dragline silk proteins that can be used to make ultra-strong synthetic fibres and bulletproof...