Microsofts new touch-screen phone models link well with social network sites. Microsoft Corp. unveiled two cell phones Monday that are meant for social networking-savvy teens and twenty-somethings, in an attempt to revitalize its mobile business and regain ground on iPhones and BlackBerrys. Microsoft said its new touch-screen phones — a short, square-shaped handset called Kin [...]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN The meals of directors at Rexchip Electronics, a joint venture between DRAM makers Elpida Memory and Powerchip Technology, was reelected at yesterdays shareholders joining. Elpida and Powerchip gained four and three seats respectively on Rexchips diet of directors. Frank Huang, Powerchip chairman who had earlier resigned from the support of Rexchip chairman, has [...]

TAMPA Pilgrim Software, Inc. a provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management software solutions, announced that Pharmalucence, Inc. a radiopharmaceutical manufacturer and provider of contract aseptic drug production services, has named Pilgrim as it automated risk, compliance and quality management systems provider. Pharmalucence will implement Pilgrims solutions for document management, change control, training management, [...]

Neelie Kroes, European deputy for digital agenda, has called for the EU Commissions re-examination of roaming regulation to tackle the issue of mobile operators charging very greatly inflated rates for international phone calls. She said this is unavoidable in order to promote a truly competitive single market for wholly aspects of telecoms services in Europe. [...]

NEW YORK, USA ProPublica, in a historic first for online journalism, won a coveted Pulitzer Prize on Monday for investigative reporting about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical centre following Hurricane Katrina. The chronicle of decisions by doctors caring for patients stranded by the flood, written by Sheri Fink of ProPublica in collaboration with [...]

I want to use my computer speakers for amplifying my telephone. How can I do that? is there a program you have to have or something? please help!! How can you use computer speakers for a telephone amplifier?

Is Twitter the next Google, the next Pets. com, or something in between? It may have begun answering that question Tuesday, with its long-awaited first step into advertising. Analysts worry company with no profit or revenue may be overvalued. The startup is trying to make money without alienating the tens of millions of people who [...]

McLaren technology from their pit stops is now used in air-traffic control at Heathrow. Photograph Clive Mason/Getty Images Formula 1 has been at the awesome edge of innovation for decades, yet most of the time you would have been pushed to find the fruits of its research adopted elsewhere. Not any more. Technology developed by [...]

HELSINKI, FINLAND Nokia Oyj testament use Linux MeeGo software in its N-series lineup, hoping the modern platform will give it a better chance to battle against rivals such as Apple Inc and Google Inc. The N-series has been Nokias honorary distinction jewel for years and it dominated the smartphone market before Apples iPhone was introduced [...]

Christmas Day 2007 was a lingering time ago. But thats when the first 1.9 progress to maturity release of Ruby appeared. Now, nearly three years later, Ruby is lacking with version 1.9.2, described as the first “production-expert 1.9 implementation.” The release comes as the related Rails gears up instead of its 3.0 release, and the [...]