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Sony is set to introduce several handheld devices, as well as its answer to Apples iTunes, according to a report. Analysts disagree on whether the move will enable Sony to regain lost mojo, or reveal it to be far too late to the party. - Sony is ...

News Analysis: Although Apple touts Mac OS X as a fine alternative to Windows, its chances of capturing major market share away from Microsoft's OS are getting smaller by the day. Windows 7 is enjoying major success. As a result Apple will find it is harder to make inroads among ...

Google this: Microsoft and Facebook are broadening their search pact to let Bing power Facebook's Web search return universal features such as images, maps and other information. Facebook will also regain total control over selling its display ads, signaling that the world's leading social network is ready to strike on ...

SAP Feb. 2 launched to public beta 12Sprints, a collaboration environment geared to help knowledge workers share enterprise application data and discuss it in a virtual forum, which is provisioned by invite only. XMPP-powered chat and document sharing are available, and SAP has already created extensions for Scribd, Evernote and ...

The fourth Intel Leibniz Challenge starts today, with the team topic of "Chip Design with focus on verification and examination." The contest, which is hosted by Intel and the Leibniz University Hanover and supported by the Initiative D2, aims to arouse ...

Google Jan. 27 said it is taking its Google Social Search project to its core search engine with new features, a move to challenge Facebook in the battle for more users. Google Social Search drops content from searchers' contacts directly into search results. In the next few days, users of ...

Sri Lanka's president said Thursday his re-election was a perfect response to those who had criticised his handling of the war against Tamil rebels, even as his defeated rival rejected the result. Mahinda Rajapakse swept back into a second term after results from Tuesday's bitterly fought

The lead engineer for Google's Chrome Operating System told Ars Technica the emerging product and its Chrome Web browser sidekick will have a complete media player that approximates the functionality of Windows Media Player. Chrome OS boots up a netbook in a fraction of the time it takes to start ...

Challenging Google in the cloud computing market for messaging and collaboration software, IBM landed Panasonic as a customer for its LotusLive SAAS programs. More than 150,000 workers at the Japanese electronics maker will use IBM's hosted e-mail, social networking Web conferencing, file sharing, instant messaging and project management applications. The ...

MySpace launches a developer contest to find new developers to write compelling applications on the MySpace social networking platform. - MySpace has launched a developer contest to find new developers to write compelling applications on the popular MySpace social networking platform. In a Jan. 4 blog post, Amy Walgenbach, ...

When News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch suggested in November that he could block paid Wall Street Journal content from Google's search crawlers, he unwittingly touched off a short-lived media furor. Journalists, bloggers and other pundits speculated that Murdoch could disrupt Google's successful search ad business by making News Corp. content ...

Google will reportedly offer the Nexus One by invitation only, a strange strategy at a time when Android is fighting Apple's iPhone to gain market share. Why seed the Android 2.1-based Apple iPhone challenger to Google employees, with some of them leaking photos and giving gadget geeks opportunities to play ...

After a long wait, Google releases stable beta versions of Chrome for Mac, Chrome for Linux and Chrome extensions. The move comes more than a year after Google launched its Chrome Web browser for Windows. Google says Chrome for Mac is speedy and includes animations and effects to create an ...

Using an inverse pyramid approach, a team from MIT captures the $40,000 first prize to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations across the United States. DARPA hopes the contest will lead to further research on broad-scope problems that can be tackled using social networking tools. - ...

Defending champions Team Qasr Al Sarab remain in position to make it a hat-trick of Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge titles, after the New Zealanders continued to dominate in the 50km kayak sprints yesterday. The Kiwi outfit, led by Richard and Elina Ussher, finished the day 26 minutes ahead of

President Barack Obama urged corporate America on Thursday to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes. "There's no question that it is difficult out there right now, but we also heard some ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: On Dec. 2, Microsoft introduced new features for Bing that included an updated beta version of Bing Maps, and Visual Search integrated with Facebook and Twitter feeds. With a massive marketing campaign over the summer, and an ever-increasing number of new features, Bing's share of the U.S. search ...

Google has announced the winners of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) 2, including overall winners that consist of an application to help smartphone users sleep better, an online multiplayer game and a mobile security solution. - Google has announced the winners of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) ...

Hot on the heels of his success at the Dubai World Championship, Lee Westwood returns to the UAE for next month's Abu Dhabi Golf Championship determined to start his 2010 season in the same vein of form in which he closed 2009. The Englishman ...