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Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google have agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to settle a government probe into their role in promoting online gambling dating back to 1997.
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U.S. regulators have cleared a plan by Google to buy online advertising giant DoubleClick, a tie-up that has sparked concerns about privacy risks and still faces a challenge in the European Union.
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A Japanese company has unveiled a new device that will allow people "speak" through their ear so they can use their mobile telephones in noisy places.
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Israeli scientists said Tuesday they have created the worlds smallest Bible, fitting a Hebrew-language version of the holy book on a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead.
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U.S. researchers warn that bullies are taking their hurtful ways from real-world schoolyards to the "cyber" world by targeting teens with nasty e-mail, text messaging, and online chat.
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Scientists in Britain say they are able to slow and then stop a squirt of light in what they described as a key step toward the future of ultra-fast computing.
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A court in the United Arab Emirates has imposed a one-year suspended jail sentence on a Web site owner who has faced a flurry of defamation suits, a lawyer has said.
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Users of online social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are leaving themselves wide open to fraud by posting personal information on the web, Internet campaigners warned Monday.
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A top Islamic body in Saudi Arabia has hosted a stormy debate on controversial issues, including the use of Koranic verses as mobile phone ringtones, newspapers reported Monday.
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A top Taliban military commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Mansour Dadullah, has denied any links between the Taliban and Iran, according to the transcript of a video interview posted online.
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Debt-laden Lebanon, which has among the highest phone bills in the world, is preparing for the privatization of its mobile network expected to take place early next year.
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Veteran British pop star Cliff Richard is to follow younger acts such as Radiohead by letting fans decide the price of his new album over the Internet, his Web site announced Tuesday.
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The mysterious "mass suicide" of 152 dolphins washed up on Irans coast over the past month has alarmed environmentalists, with the blame pointed at regional fishing practices, officials said Monday.
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Astronauts stepped out on the second-and-most-ambitious spacewalk of the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASAs) latest shuttle mission Sunday, to arrange heavy hardware on an orbiting station hundreds of kilometers above Earth, NA
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Microsoft is paying a premium to keep Facebook from the clutches of rival Google in a deal that puts an inflated $15-billion price tag on the red-hot startup, analysts said Thursday.
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Apples upgraded Leopard operating system will be set loose Friday as trend-setting iPods and iPhones cause the ranks of Macintosh computer lovers to swell.
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Dubais Technology and Media Free Zone Authority (TECOM) will start construction work next month on a $385-million Information Technology (IT) park in Indias Kerala state, officials said Tuesday.
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The United States Monday handed over 30 military helicopters to key ally Pakistan to help fight extremism and provide humanitarian relief in the region, officials said.
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Hardcore US gamers say a fresh price cut and a blockbuster stealth shooter title exclusive to PlayStation 3 will breathe new life into moribund sales of Sonys video game consoles.
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A US Air Force (USAF) commander says the new MQ-9 Reaper plane is adding to USAF capabilities in the airspace of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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A swimming sea cucumber, a Nemo-like orange fish, and a worm with tentacles sprouting from its head are among dozens of possible new species found during a survey of the Celebes Sea, researchers said Tuesday.
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"Are you ready?" was the message from the worlds first TV-quality online TV network, delivered at this weeks MIPCOM audiovisual trade show.
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Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said Thursday the Afghan government had been forced to negotiate with his insurgency, as the group called the release, this week, of five Taliban prisoners a "great victory," according to a US-based monitoring se
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Sixty years after US flying ace Charles Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, supersonic flight remains out of reach for most people, confined mostly to military uses.
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Eritrea Tuesday accused its archfoe Ethiopia of blocking broadcasts and Web pages by its media in the latest round of accusations between the Horn of Africa foes.
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Interpol Monday launched an unprecedented worldwide hunt for a man who it said had posted pictures on the Internet of himself raping young boys in Vietnam or Cambodia.
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Microsoft went live Thursday with a free online "HealthVault" billed as a US Web site where personal medical records can be stored and managed safe from snooping.
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Yahoo announced Thursday it will start thwarting scammers that send bogus eBay or PayPal account e-mails to trick people into revealing passwords and credit card numbers.
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Scientists who discovered that Viagra helps hamsters overcome jet-lag and managed to extract vanilla favoring from cow dung took center stage Thursday at the 17th annual Ig Nobel Awards.
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In the first US trial to challenge the illegal downloading of music on the Internet, a single mother from Minnesota was ordered Thursday to pay more-than-$220,000 for sharing 24 songs online.
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Its never been better for television fans worldwide. As TV explodes onto a host of new screens, the race is on to find more great programs to capture an increasingly-savvy audience.
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Norway plans to build the worlds first osmotic power plant, a renewable energy source that uses the pressure built up between sea water and fresh water, Norwegian energy group Statkraft said Wednesday.
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In spite of its global popularity, Internet telephony (VoIP), which is almost free for users, has not become a gold mine for its pioneers such as Skype and Vonage.
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Myanmars main Internet link remained shut for a third straight day Sunday, as the ruling regime tried to curb the flow of information on a bloody crackdown against protesters.
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Myanmar appeared to have cut the countrys main Internet link Friday, choking off information about the crackdown on mass anti-government protests that have left at least 13 people dead.
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South Koreas defense ministry said Friday that it has launched a crackdown on scores of Web sites that suggest ways to dodge compulsory military service.
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The battle for Myanmar is also being waged through the popular online social networking site Facebook, where users are rallying support against the military junta.
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Microsoft Corp. flagged off Thursday customized domains for the huge market of young Indians in a bid to boost revenues from free e-mail services a decade after it acquired Hotmail.
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Myanmars people both inside the country and around the world have taken to the Internet to express their anger at the juntas crackdown, calling the ruling generals "the enemies of people."
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Nearly two decades after the fall of communism, Europes former Moscow-dominated states are using the Internet to make public the files of the security services that helped keep their regimes in power.
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Microsoft Thursday began phasing in a slick new version of its Live Search service in a bid to gain ground on leading Internet search rivals Google and Yahoo.
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Social networking site Facebook, which signs up more than 1 million new fans every month, has changed tack and begun to publicly list members profiles on search engines such as Google and Yahoo!
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Amazon Tuesday launched an Internet music store in a challenge to Apples entrenched iTunes online shop.
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Savvy young bloggers in Myanmar are breaking through the military juntas tight Internet controls to post photos and videos of swelling anti-government protests, experts said Tuesday.
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Prosecutors in New York state are investigating whether social networking Web site Facebook is living up to its word when it comes to protecting young Internet users from sexual predators.
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Google said Monday that it has asked European Union regulators to approve its pending $3.1-billion purchase of Internet ad targeting colossus DoubleClick.
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Inexpensive laptop computers designed for students in developing countries will be sold to the public in a buy-one, give-one scheme, the nonprofit organization behind the project said Monday.
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Microsoft hopes that the launch Tuesday of its much-anticipated "Halo 3" game will turn into another blockbuster that will fend off challenges from Nintendos Wii and Sonys Playstation 3.
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Need an alibi for a tricky situation, something to get you out of the house, or into someone elses? Explain a missed meeting?
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The US computer giant Dell announced a deal Monday to sell its products through Gome, Chinas largest consumer electronics retailer.
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A series of deadly bombings have left this southern showcase of Indias hi-tech success haunted by fears of new attacks that could ruin Hindu-Muslim harmony and the citys growing prosperity.
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The Israeli army unveiled a new Web site Sunday that will be used to warn Israelis of impending attacks after the "lessons learned" from the 2006 war in Lebanon.
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Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities, as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.
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The Thai technology minister who imposed a five-month ban on the popular video-sharing site YouTube said Friday that he would resign amid allegations over improper stock holdings.
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Britain Friday launched a campaign to help schools combat "cyber-bullying" of children and teachers using the Internet and mobile phones.
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A Turkish court ordered telecom authorities Tuesday to block access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, over videos that allegedly insulted the countrys leaders, a report said.
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Apple revealed Tuesday that Britain will become the first European nation to get the trendy new touch-screen iPhone, after operator O2 won an exclusive deal with the US giant.
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Sony Corps financial arm Tuesday scaled down its giant initial public offering, as renewed worries about the fallout from a global credit squeeze sent financial shares tumbling.
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MP3 players/recorders detect some respiratory sounds better than traditional stethoscopes, and could prove handy replacements in the future, two researchers told an international conference on respiratory diseases.
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A top European court Monday handed Microsoft a surprise defeat in its epic antitrust battles, backing the European Commissions 2004 record fine of 497 million euros ($690 million) against the software giant.
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UPDATE: Microsoft lost Monday a landmark EU antitrust case at Europes second-highest court, which upheld a record 497-million-euro ($690-million) fine imposed by the European Commission in 2004.
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A man in southern China collapsed and died after a three-day marathon online session at a cybercafe, state media reported Monday.
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Google Australia Friday unveiled what it described as the worlds most powerful dedicated election Web site, capable of exposing inconsistencies in the public pronouncements of political leaders.
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Japans first lunar orbiter successfully blasted into space Friday, on the largest mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo program began nearly four decades ago, the space agency said.
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China Tuesday said it also was a "frequent victim" of cyber-attacks, amid accusations from several Western governments that its military had been linked to hackings of their Web sites.
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Social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace are unlikely to help users build close, new friendships, a British researcher said Tuesday.
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A lightweight, solar-powered plane built by British defense and security technology company QinetiQ has broken a world record for unmanned flight by staying aloft for 54 hours, the firm said Monday.
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Microsoft Friday announced a team-up with Japanese humanoid maker Tmsuk in a bid to set the standard in the development of cutting-edge robots.
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Britains fertility regulator decided in principle Wednesday to allow scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes.
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The worlds largest microchip maker Intel Corp expects a quick verdict by US antitrust regulators on a deal with Europes STMicroelectronics to merge their memory chip units, its chairman said Wednesday.
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For those fed up with the family photos where one person is perpetually frowning, a new Japanese camera is said to automatically weed out pictures when a person isnt smiling.
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Japanese electronics maker Casio said Wednesday it will launch a series of digital cameras especially designed for YouTube, the blockbuster video-sharing Web site.
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Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will list its financial arm next month, in hopes of raising some $3 billion that it can reinvest in its core electronics business.
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A Lithuanian research establishment launched Monday a Web site that aims to reveal the role of the former Russian security service KGB during the Soviet occupation of the three Baltic states.
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For those who frequently arrive at the supermarket checkout, only to find they have left their wallets at home, help is at hand.
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German media giant Bertelsmann said Tuesday that its net profit plunged by 85 percent in the first half, owing to the settlement of legal disputes over the music file-sharing service Napster.
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An Internet game in which players raid the offices of Lebanons politically-embattled premier, killing him and members of his cabinet, is under criminal investigation, a newspaper reported Friday.
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Banking giant HSBC has reversed a decision to scrap interest-free overdrafts for university graduates, after a campaign launched on the Internet social networking site Facebook, it said Friday.
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Controversial Dutch Princess Mabel and her husband Prince Johan Friso edited a Wikipedia entry about her, to take out a reference that she had given false information to the government, the royal information service RVD confirmed Wednesday.
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Nokia, the worlds leading maker of mobile phones, unveiled Wednesday a new music shopping innovation that it hopes will loosen the grip of Apples iTunes on digital downloads.
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Recovering Japanese giant Sony Corp. said Wednesday it will introduce a new lineup of flat-screen televisions, including the largest on the market, in a bid to boost its mainstay electronics sales.
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Virtual police officers will soon begin visible patrols on Chinese Internet sites to warn surfers they are being monitored, Beijing authorities said in comments published Wednesday.
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