Facebook Inc took the wraps off a new search tool on Tuesday that lets people trawl their network of friends to find everything from restaurants to movie recommendations, an improvement that's likely to increase competition with review websites l

Apple's stock went down and stayed down today, following news that the company had slashed orders for iPhone parts.

Nokia said strong sales of Lumia smartphones helped its mobile phone business achieve underlying profitability in the fourth quarter, raising hopes the struggling handset maker may be past the worst.

Apple Inc has started testing a new iPhone and the next version of its iOS software, news website The Next Web reported.

Sony has ended Japanese production of its best-selling PlayStation 2 (PS2).

Microsoft has confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability affecting older versions of Internet Explorer could allow attackers to gain control of Windows-based computers to host malicious Web sites.

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, said on Tuesday it has "no plans" to incorporate user photos into ads in response to a growing public outcry over new privacy policies unveiled this week.

Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification.

From the producers of ‘Colombo Ride 3D’ (a game which was nominated in 2010/11 as one of the top 5 games worldwide from over 1000 games internationally at Mashable Awards, Las Vegas, USA) comes another innovative milestone for the Sri Lan

Google has released its Maps app for the iPhone, in the wake of complaints about Apple's software.

Attention has swirled around what, at least initially, looks to be a surefire way to pirate Windows Store apps: as a warning to developers, Nokia engineer Justin Angel has detailed how at least some Windows 8 apps can be hacked to avoid paying for fu

Several Google Inc Web products, including the popular Gmail service, appeared to go dark for users on several continents on Monday.

IBM says it has developed a chip that makes it easier to shuttle data about via pulses of light instead of using electrical signals.

It may not look like a character from the Transformer franchise, but a tiny robot made in the US is able to change shape.

A UN agency is trying to calm fears that the internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting.

Microsoft has revealed it will charge $899 (£560) for the basic version of its Surface with Windows Pro tablet.

Microsoft Corp has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in the month since the launch, according to one of the new co-heads of the Windows unit, setting a faster pace than Windows 7 three years ago.

Five million units of Samsung‘s Galaxy Note II have been sold worldwide, the company has announced.

Facebook is set to remove the ability for users to vote on changes to its data privacy policy, in a move that has angered campaigners.

Yahoo Inc shares reached their highest level in a year and a half, as investor confidence grows that new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer can pull off a comeback that eluded three of her predecessors.

Google’s smartphone app team Niantic Labs has released a new multi-player gaming platform that turns your real-world location into a virtual world.

Research In Motion Ltd plans to introduce its new line of BlackBerry 10 smartphones on January 30, the company said on Monday, giving investors a measure of confidence the long-awaited devices are approaching the finish line.

China's top official in charge of fighting copyright piracy on Sunday slammed what he said was deliberate distortion of the problem by the Western media caused by the country's poor global image, saying important facts had been ignored.

Twitter said that it mistakenly reset the passwords of "a large number" of its more than 140 million active users while conducting routine security screening to identify accounts that may have been compromised.

President Barack Obama called it - in less than 140 characters. Around 11:15 pm EST, just as the networks were beginning to call the race in his favor, Obama took to Twitter to proclaim himself the winner over Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Microsoft expects its newly launched Windows Phone to become a strong challenger in the smartphone market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Monday.

Three out of every four smartphones sold in the third quarter featured Google Inc's Android mobile operating system, as the gap between Google and Apple Inc-based phones widened further, according to a new research report.

Days after launching Windows 8, Microsoft Corp is mounting a strong campaign to win over the software developers it needs to kick-start its new operating system.

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's new go-to management team of mostly familiar faces failed to drum up much excitement on Wall Street, driving its shares to a three-month low on Wednesday.

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Monday pushed out the powerful head of the company's mobile software products group, sources said, in a major management shake-up that also claimed the recently hired chief of the retail stores division.