 New Republican Party 2.0 website unveiled The Republican Party launched a redesigned website Tuesday with a heavy emphasis on the social media tools that Democrat Barack Obama used so effectively to win the last presidential election. [...] October 13, 2009 05:22 PM Internet Swedish court overturns landmark file sharing ruling A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark file sharing ruling that forced an Internet service provider to reveal an Internet user's identity to five publishers. [...] October 13, 2009 05:07 PM Internet State-owned firm says Vietnam's first 3G service launched State-owned mobile network operator Vinaphone said Tuesday it has begun offering Vietnam's first 3G service, bringing "a revolution" to the country's mobile system. The company is the first to... October 13, 2009 04:11 PM Internet German firm offers Europe's first 'personalised paper' Two young German entrepreneurs presented what they described as a Europe-wide first on Tuesday: a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 8:00 am. [...] October 13, 2009 04:08 PM Internet Gamers get Hollywood-esque touch in Uncharted 2 "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves", the video game released this week by California studio Naughty Dog, transports gamers into an action-adventure with pacing, effects and storytelling worthy of a... October 13, 2009 04:07 PM Internet Cisco to buy wireless maker Starent for $2.9 bln Cisco announced Tuesday it has agreed to buy wireless equipment maker Starent Networks for 2.9 billion dollars, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the US networking giant. [...] October 13, 2009 02:32 PM Internet T-Mobile halts Sidekick sales after data loss US wireless carrier T-Mobile temporarily halted sales of the Sidekick mobile phone Monday after a server failure caused many customers to lose personal data such as contacts and calendar items. [...] October 12, 2009 08:46 PM Internet File sharing drops in Sweden after govt crackdown: association More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday. [...] October 12, 2009 06:30 PM Internet BSkyB says to launch online music service British pay-TV giant BSkyB said Monday it will launch an online music service next week which offers consumers access to more than four million tracks, rivalling Apple's iTunes. [...] October 12, 2009 06:06 PM Internet Genentech chairman resigns from Google board Genentech chairman Arthur Levinson has resigned from the board of directors of Google amid a probe by US authorities into his membership of the boards of both the Internet giant and Apple. [...] October 12, 2009 04:15 PM Internet Philips posts surprise profit as cost cuts help Dutch electronics giant Philips reported on Monday a surprise profit for the third quarter as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped the bottomline. The company... October 12, 2009 04:13 PM Internet Lufthansa, Panasonic deal for in-flight Internet German flag carrier Lufthansa and Japanese electronics giant Panasonic have teamed up to offer passengers wireless Internet on long-haul flights from 2010, the airline said on Monday. [...] October 12, 2009 01:30 PM Internet Oracle plays up promise of Sun take-over Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems. While kicking off an Oracle... October 12, 2009 06:44 AM Internet 2012 Olympic site workers face biometric scans Workers on London's Olympic Park will have to go through biometric scanning to access the 2012 Games site in a bid to protect it from terrorists, a newspaper reported Sunday. [...] October 11, 2009 04:12 AM Internet Imagine Peace Tower lights in Second Life Just hours after Friday's annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, a virtual version of the tribute to late Beatle John Lennon opened in online world Second Life. "I hope we will all... October 10, 2009 09:37 PM Internet Wall Street Journal to pass USA Today as top US paper The Wall Street Journal said Saturday that it expects to become the largest US newspaper by weekday circulation when the latest figures are released, leapfrogging USA Today. [...] October 10, 2009 08:36 PM Internet Britain's Prince Philip out of control with modern TVs Britain's Prince Philip said he was baffled by modern television remote controls and ended up lying on the floor by the set to operate it instead, in a video posted Saturday on the Internet. [...] October 10, 2009 04:26 AM Internet Britain's Prince Charles bemoans Internet 'deserts' Britain's Prince Charles said Saturday that people living in rural areas had been left in the Internet's "slow lane", placing them at a "severe disadvantage" in the modern world. [...] October 10, 2009 04:15 AM Internet Setback for British 'hacker' in US extradition fight A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Friday refused permission to appeal to the new Supreme Court in London against his extradition to the United... October 9, 2009 11:11 PM Internet Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages. [...] October 9, 2009 08:59 PM Internet |
