Every year the Christmas edition of Time Magazine select a person who is considered to have had the greatest influence on the flow of news over the past year. Last year, Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs were among the nominees, but was beaten by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. This year, ... Continue Reading

The Swedish telecom company Ericsson said Thursday that they will sell their 50-per cent stake in mobile phone joint venture Sony Ericsson to Sony for 1.05 billion euros (US$1.47 billion). Rumors of this acquisition have been around for some time already. "Sony will acquire Ericsson's 50 per cent stake in Sony ... Continue Reading

It is the luxury terminal where wealthy tourists will blast into orbit for $200,000 per return trip. And Virigin's new space terminal in the New Mexico desert looked suitably futuristic as it was unveieled yesterday. The building will house Virgin Galactic's spacecraft, mission control and a preparation area for travellers when ... Continue Reading

A lot of people expected Apple to launch iPhone 5 in Cupertino Tuesday. However, they had to settle for a slightly faster and more enduring iPhone 4S, and Siri, which is a new system for speech recognition and dialogue with the phone. In addition, the prices of iPod Nano was cut ... Continue Reading

Amazon has now announced their new tablet, called Kindle Fire, which will take on Apple's very popular iPad 2. The new tablet was presented to the press in New York, on Wednesday. Here are some of the specifications of the new tablet: 7 inch IPS 1024×600 resolution display with 169 PPI 7.5″ x ... Continue Reading

Just as the rumors have recently predicted, Apple is holding a special event on Tuesday in their own headquarters. Apple has sent out invitations to a presentation on October 4. The invitation reads; "Let's talk iPhone", and the general expectation is that the iPhone 5 will be presented. It is rumored ... Continue Reading

Scientists working on the Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment may have recorded evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) - a crucial step towards solving the mystery of 'dark matter', a material thought to make up the huge majority of the matter in the universe, but ... Continue Reading

Google's acquisition of Motorola have led some mobile manufacturers to look around for other operating system options. Samsung has already announced that they want to focus harder on Bada, and now HTC has started to look around, as well. The CEO of HTC, Cher Wang, admits to Focus Taiwan that the ... Continue Reading

LOS ANGELES — Sept. 13, 2011 — Today at its developer-focused BUILD conference, Microsoft Corp. showcased a detailed preview of the next major release of Windows, code-named “Windows 8.” The company also detailed new tools for developers to help write applications for more than 1 billion people around the world ... Continue Reading

Next month, on October 3, Microsoft are having big press conferences in New York and San Francisco where they will present a new and upgraded version of Hotmail. This involves major changes in security, performance and spam management. Below is the invitation that Microsoft has sent to selected journalists: Not much has ... Continue Reading

Two artificial intelligent robots called 'chatbots' held a conversation together for the first time which resulted in them arguing about God. Graduate PhD students at Cornell University gave voices and 2D avatars to the pair of online chatbots - a British man which they named Alan and an Asian woman called ... Continue Reading