Pomegranate NS08 phone is an ultra-thin, touch-screen cellphone with e-mail, Web browsing, GPS, a camera and a video projector, live voice translator, shaver, harmonica, among many other standard features that current leading mobile phones have. But it’s only fictional mobile phone in viral marketing...

Google Inc. hopes to prove it can track people as effectively as it searches for information on the Internet. It could also raise privacy concerns, but Google is requiring each user to manually turn on the tracking software. Google people tracker raises privacy issues

Google yesterday launched a new service called Latitude that allows participants to keep track of their family and friends on an online map from certain smartphones or a computer. With the feature, a user can “see if your spouse is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, notice that a buddy...

Over 1,000 new species of animals have been discovered in the Greater Mekong area of Asia from 1997 to 2007. Those species include some interesting specimens, such as the pink dragon millipede, the giant huntsman spider, the Gumbrechts green pit viper, and the Laotian rock rat. A rat thought to have...

Andreas von Bechtolsheim, a brilliant billionaire and Sun Microsystems chief architect, is resigning as chief architect of Sun Microsystems to focus on a start-up that is challenging another industry giant, Cisco Systems. Mr. Bechtolsheim’s new company, Arista Networks, has built an ultra-fast network...

This month in 1998, the Internet God known as Google was launched. Since then it has become the most used search engine on the Web, with more than 135 million visitors in the U.S. alone and at least several hundred million searches a day. So happy birthday Google! However, if you want to be technical...

Sony is recalling 73,000 Vaio TZ laptops because of a possible manufacturing defect that may cause them to overheat, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. The recall relates to a problem with wiring near the computer’s hinge, which could short-circuit and overheat in certain...

Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which will be released in 100 countries on Tuesday. New features will included “isolated” tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine. Google...

No, probably––thankfully––not. In fact, despite recent reports that the 76 year-old Hollywood icon was on her death bed, she probably hasn’t even died of natural causes. With dozens of Nigerian lottery scammers now off the streets and better-informed Internet citizen perhaps a tad less likely...

Gmail users yesterday faced problems while accessing their accounts. The service was down for almost an hour. While accessing the account, “Temporary Error (502)” message was shown. The service is now back. A lot of messages regarding the service outage were seen on different micro-blogging services...