LG to start selling curved OLED TVs in South Korea

LG Electronics says it will begin deliveries of curved OLED television sets next month, making it the first to offer such a product to t...

Apple's smartphone share in single digits by Sept

The chart at right represents the worst case scenario for Apple's (AAPL) share of the global smartphone market, as forecast Monday b...

Video game studio pirates its own game -- with an ironic twist

An indie video game developer is drawing attention to the industry's rampant piracy problem with an ingenious stunt: The company pir...

North Korea embraces 3G service

Almost two million North Koreans now use the country's only 3G network, reports a blog dedicated to technology news in North Korea. ...

World's first Braille smartphone in development

For all of their advantages, smartphones still fall a little short for some — specifically, for those living with visual impairment. Whi...

How iTunes changed music, and the world

On April 28, 2003, Apple threw open the virtual doors to its iTunes Store, and music -- all digital media, really -- hasn't been the...

Brazil judge orders Facebook memorial page remove

A Brazilian judge has ordered Facebook to delete the profile of a 24-year-old journalist who died in May last year. The mother of Julian...

Google offers clearer search labels after EU probe

Google has agreed to alter its search results in the light of a European investigation into whether it unfairly promoted its own service...

Amazon is making a TV set-top box

If you're looking for a little black box to put under your TV set and devices like the Roku, Apple TV, or any of the many Google TV ...

Compelling cars of the 2013 Shanghai motor show

Shanghai calling     Alternating each year with the Beijing motor show, Auto Shanghai has evolved into the Frankfurt motor show of Asia....

Dead customer Virgin Media bill goes viral on Facebook

A broadband bill sent to a deceased man, which included a fine for late payment, has been shared more than 53,000 times by Facebook user...

The power of one wrong tweet

Misinformation can spread quickly on Twitter, each retweet exposing it to wider audiences and even resulting in real world impacts. On T...

Apple's profit problem

Just four months ago, Apple came within a stone's throw of the biggest quarterly profit in corporate history -- now it has a profit ...

HTC unveils new flagship smartphone , Nokia launches patent lawsuits

Nokia has won a court injunction banning HTC from using microphone components in its flagship HTC One smartphones. It will create more hea...

'Smart guns' could be next step in gun control

A proposal to expand background checks failed in Washington, but several entrepreneurs say they have a different answer to curbing gun v...

Police scanner sites see surge in traffic after Boston

For listeners of police scanners, last week's tragic events offered one real-time drama after another. During the fertilizer plant e...

The timeless allure of microcars

Outsize personality  Microcars have held the limelight of late. The world’s largest privately held collection went under the hammer in t...

Asus Fonepad is a 7-inch tablet that can make calls

Didn't we tell you that the lines between smartphones and tablets are blurred? Case in point: the Asus Fonepad, a 7-inch tablet that...