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A whopping 81 percent of computer software now in use in Africa has been pirated, costing governments and the high-tech industry billions of dollars in revenue and choking growth, experts warn.
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Insurgents and US military personnel are using popular Internet sites to post videos of combat in Iraq that would never be shown on US television.
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Yahoo set out Monday to capture life on Earth in digital formats for a "time capsule" to be buried in Silicon Valley as well as beamed from Mexico into the cosmos.
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Googles supremo stunned the British Conservative partys annual conference - and thousands of politicians in Western democracies - when he said the next step in cyberspace was the "truth predictor." Within five years, new software will allow voter
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"Thats the difference between living and dying," said Professor Deborah Withington, referring to innovative sound technology that moments earlier had helped a reporter to escape a darkened, smoke-filled room.
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Publishers offered an olive branch to Internet search engines such as Google Friday amid bitter legal tussles with new technology that would make content widely available but safeguard copyrights.
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Australian telecoms giant Telstra Friday launched its new 3G mobile broadband network in a blaze of publicity as it moved to bolster investor confidence ahead of a troubled share sale.
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Howard Stringers honeymoon as the first foreign head of Sony has come to an abrupt end as investors dump the companys shares amid a battery defect crisis and fears that its PlayStation 3 may fail to meet sky-high expectations.
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Japans Sony Corp, reeling from a string of technical problems, kicked off its bid Tuesday for industry dominance in high-definition DVDs, announcing a December launch for its Blu-ray machine.
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A man fiddles with his cell phone, pushes a few buttons and Islams holiest book, the Koran, pops up on his screen while a pre-recorded voice recites the words of Allah.
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US lawmakers high-stakes and morally charged offensive on Internet gamblers has as much chance of success as Americas 1920s Prohibition against alcohol, several analysts said Monday.
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Famous for their ability to make money, Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have hit upon the Internet as a lifeline to cushion losses from conflict, competition and severe local recession.
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The first private Syrian satellite television channel started broadcasting Tuesday after four decades of a tight government grip over audio-visual media. Al Sham Satellite went on air five years after Syria passed a new law allowing private audio-v
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned in disgrace and chief executive Mark Hurd apologized for "disturbing" boardroom espionage Friday as they prepared to answer to a congressional committee about the scandal.
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The US television network Current TV, co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore to provide young people a forum on social issues, went online Wednesday at Yahoos globally popular video Website.
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An exhibit of cartoons on the Holocaust in Tehran has attracted few Iranians spectators.
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Nintendo said Thursday it will launch its next-generation Wii game machine in December at about $200 a piece, undercutting the price of Sonys beleaguered PlayStation 3.
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Online advertising mastermind Google and business software specialist Intuit announced Wednesday that they have teamed-up to tempt small businesses into seeking customers on the Internet.
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Apple said that it began selling Walt Disney Company movies at its iTunes online store on Tuesday.
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Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn clung to her job Friday as she was battered with accusations that she ordered a probe in which board members and reporters were illegally spied on.
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Amazon began selling movies and television shows in digital format on the Internet Thursday, fulfilling the expectations of market watchers.
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MySpace, a Website considered the hip place to socialize online, announced Tuesday that it will enable members to sell their music.
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Intel announced Tuesday that it would cut more than a tenth of its workforce as part of a drive to become more efficient in the face of tough competition in the computer chip market.
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Disgraced Internet mogul Takafumi Horie, who riled Japans corporate old guard with his brash business tactics, pleaded not guilty Monday over a scandal at his once high-flying Livedoor firm.
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Germany plans to change its law to crack down on Websites that it says have become vehicles for radical Islamists to promote their causes.
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A proposed law mandating that makers of wireless Internet gear warn buyers to protect against unauthorized access was on the desk of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Apple Computer elected Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to its board of directors Tuesday in a possible harbinger of an alliance between the technology titans.
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A new advertising-based free music Website won the backing Tuesday of Universal Music Group, creating a model that could challenge market leader Apple Computers iTunes.
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Internet giant Google Inc. Monday took the software battle deeper into Microsofts territory with a new package of online services for small-business users.
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Microsofts challenge to Apples reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed Friday.
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Japans Sony Corp, facing multimillion-dollar losses from an embarrassing recall of potentially hazardous computer batteries, said Friday that it was confident that the problems would spread no further.
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SanDisk Corporation introduced the worlds highest-capacity flash-memory MP3 player Monday and priced it to take a bigger bite of the market dominated by Apples iPods.
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Apple Computer said Friday that it found no trace of child or forced labor at Chinese factories that make its popular iPod MP3 players.
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Google opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its hometown in northern Californias high-tech Silicon Valley Wednesday, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads new personal Website has come under attack by Israeli hackers intent on crashing it, Ynetnews has reported.
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Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has condemned the months of harassment by Egyptian authorities in Qina that forced Hala Helmy Boutros to close down her blog "Aqbat Bela Hodood" (Copts Without Borders), which tackled the persecution of the Christian
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An IBM brainchild born 25 years ago grew up to redefine modern life from the way people work to the way they look for love, chat with friends or even shop.
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Al Manar, Hezbollahs television outlet, has been getting US Internet service by hijacking connections, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
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Apple Computer showcased its Leopard operating system, due out next year, to the cheers of software developers gathered for a major conference.
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By any standards, this years most talked about movie in Hong Kong is short, poorly filmed, and grainy.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Philips trades chips for rebirth in medical technology
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Determined to give his 12-year-old son a solid foundation in information technology, lawyer Richard Bankole bought an imported secondhand computer for about $1,000, but three days later it packed up.
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Hizbullahs Al Manar television may have gone underground, broadcasting from a secret location since Israeli air strikes pulverized its headquarters, but its journalists are still out in the field and refuse to be silenced.
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Always forgetting to charge your cell phone? Soon you may not have to: The technology to make solar-powered cell phones already exists, and one solar researcher expects that he will have a deal with a major handset manufacturer within a year.
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The music-swapping Website Kazaa announced Thursday that it had settled all lawsuits alleging that it promoted Internet piracy and would work with the entertainment industry to protect copyright.
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As crack Israeli troops battled with Hizbullah guerrillas around the Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil, the towns Website was being bombarded with messages of support and hatred in almost equal measure.
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Lots of people would download music to their phones, if they could find something other than Gnarls Barkley, according to one mobile download infrastructure firm.
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South African Ben Sassman admits that his bid to help a lonely friend living with HIV started out as a "feel-good project for myself" but is now an online dating service reaching people around the globe.
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Amazons second-quarter income plummeted over the same period a year ago as it cut prices, lost a lawsuit, and invested in new technology, the Internet retailer reported Tuesday.
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Al Hurra is set to become the first 24-hour Western Arabic-language television network broadcasting to Europe with the launch of Al Hurra Europe.
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"Live from an Israeli Bunker" ... its Eugene.
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Residents of northern Israel may soon have the chance to get their missile-attack warnings via text message on their cellular phones, it was reported on Thursday.
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Downloading cellular content like ringtones, games, and wallpaper is getting easier, and for that you have a Swedish 15-year-old to thank.
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Apple Computer beat third-quarter expectations on Wednesday, crediting its second-highest quarterly earnings on the continued popularity of its iPod music players and growing interest in Macintosh computers.
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New surveillance technologies can revolutionize the war on terror and crime-fighting techniques, a tech company executive told UPI.
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The lights are not completely out in Lebanon yet. The bloggers in Beirut are still typing furiously away in front of lit computer screens.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Sega Sammy profits dive on weak slot machine sales
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Thirty-four US states are planning to sue a group of top computer-chipmakers for creating "one of the largest cartels ever discovered" in the United States, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Thursday.
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Indian bloggers were on Thursday helping people trace missing relatives and giving them an outlet for their grief over the Mumbai blasts that killed more than 200 people and wounded more than 700.
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Lawmakers from Israels ultra-Orthodox Shas party have proposed two laws restricting access to Internet pornography, it was reported on Wednesday.
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Yahoo and Microsoft released software on Wednesday that built a bridge between their previously exclusive online instant messaging (IM) systems.
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The European Commission slapped Microsoft on Wednesday with a new fine of €280.5 million for failing to fully respect a 2004 antitrust ruling, but the software giant vowed to appeal.
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Indian software giant Infosys said on Wednesday that first-quarter net profit jumped 50.3 percent as it won more clients amid an outsourcing boom and forecast a gain of nearly 40 percent for the year.
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The MySpace Website deemed a virtual clubhouse where teenagers bare details of their lives has eclipsed Internet oldster Yahoo as the most popular US Website, a research firm said on Tuesday.
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A group of female computer professionals in Australia has struck sexy poses for a calendar to try to shake off their geeky image and encourage women to take up technology studies.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Videosite teams with movie group to thwart piracy
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A British sailor whose yacht was sinking in the Arabian Sea sent a test message with his position to his son in Kent, leading to his rescue.
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Online search giants Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are not doing enough to combat fraud that cost US advertisers $800 million last year, a study released on Wednesday claimed.
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A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Egyptian partnership was granted on Tuesday the third mobile telephone network license in Egypt, officials said.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs I.T.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Samsung, Siltronic agree wafer venture
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US Internet firms Microsoft, Yahoo, Earthlink, AOL, and United Online formed a coalition on Tuesday to protect children online, pledging $1 million and their savvy to the mission.
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US computer chip maker Intel on Monday began shipping a speedy, power-efficient processor that it claimed would turn the tables on archrival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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Soaring salaries and poor quality of manpower are prompting foreign firms to shut their outsourcing operations in India although there is no cause for alarm yet, officials and analysts say.
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Yahoo fired back at rival Microsoft on Tuesday by unveiling a test version of an enhanced, customizable online instant messaging (IM) service.
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Future expansion in the cell phone business will come from developing economies whose less than affluent consumers cannot be overlooked while overall growth slows, experts said on Tuesday.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs France Telecom takes control of Jordan Telecom
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Not many shopping Websites will call you a "poor, naive, deluded little fool" to your face. But then again, not many shopping Websites are as irreverent as woot.com.
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A private treatment center for young computer game addicts has opened in Amsterdam, a last refuge for desperate parents who are willing to pay big money to wean their children off their virtual addiction.
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Mobile phones are becoming commonplace enough in some of the remotest parts of the world, much to the delight of both private companies and public policymakers. For phone manufacturers and service providers, some of the globes poorest people have
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By this time next year, Websites not developed using the Ajax technique "will simply not be cool enough to use," an Internet analyst said.
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Bill Gates, the worlds richest man, said on Thursday that he would give up the daily running of Microsoft by July, 2008, to concentrate on his foundations work tackling health and education problems.
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Internet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for more political rights and civil liberties in conservative Gulf states.
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Billionaire basketball team owner Mark Cuban was a no show, but the head of UNICEF made it and pop star Prince rounded off the evening by throwing a guitar over his head.
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BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the worlds foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Nokia, Sanyo throw in towel on mobile alliance
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An Indian who spits out 1,000-digit memorized numbers in reverse order has warned that speed-dial features on cellular phones and other shortcuts are turning people into "mental slobs."
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By 2007 cellular customers in the United States and Europe will be able to use their phones to get to the nearest restaurant, find out if it is open and see the daily specials, according to a company that programs global positioning platforms for m
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First there were Web cams. Then there were camera phones and 3G television streaming.
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A Swedish filesharers group on Monday condemned Swedens "repressive" Internet laws as police searched for hackers who allegedly disabled government and police Websites at the weekend.
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US Internet search giant Yahoo launched a video-sharing service on Wednesday in a move that it hopes will enable it to capitalize on a hot online trend being blazed by the popular young YouTube Website.
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Google checking censor crackdown in China
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A regularly updated column of IT related briefs Man gets life for murder ordered on Internet
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A new spyware program that lures computer users by claiming to give free access to pornographic Web content ends up by "blackmailing" them into purchasing a program to clean the infection, a security firm said on Tuesday.
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Since the Al Qaeda linked Website Al Ansar was shut down earlier this month, and its British-based operator imprisoned for his role in a bomb plot, terrorists have switched to a site called Al Hesbah, a US magazine has reported.
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Hidden behind curtains in small booths decked along the wall of a dark Internet cafe in the heart of Jerusalem, Jewish ultra-Orthodox teenagers explore a forbidden world.
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Former executives of the once high-flying Internet firm Livedoor admitted on Friday to fraud allegations as they went on trial for a scandal that rocked Japans financial and political circles.
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Internet portal Yahoo and online auction giant eBay announced on Thursday a partnership for advertising and online payments.
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Israel police investigators have detained a man suspected of stealing hi-tech secrets from his employer during the goodbye bash that the company threw him.
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They are becoming more powerful and cheaper each year, but for many in poorer countries, personal computers remain an unaffordable luxury.