Top of the world: Eli Manning marched the New York Giants 88 yards to score the winning touchdown in the final seconds in a 21-17 triumph over New England last night at the Super Bowl. Photo: Getty...

Twitter account, set up in the name of the reclusive novelist, has been revealed as a fake, after fooling Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of the microblogging service.An unpublished Scottish author,...

Christmas gifts to free up cash.Entertainment Magpie buys the items through its Music Magpie website and they are then cleaned, repackaged and sold through its That's Entertainment brand, which...

One year ago Rupert Murdoch took the stage at the Guggenheim Museum and with much fanfare introduced a News Corporation publication that, in the words of the Apple executive Eddy Cue, would...

Terrorists combining a cyber attack with physical violence are the biggest security threat facing the 2012 Olympics, a digital forensics expert told...

With a background in consumer products and pop culture trends, JP Mangalindan has brought his ability to spot the next big things to his coverage of the tech industry for Fortune.com, writing on...

HTC and Android were practically synonymous. The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. won a German patent ruling over Apple Inc.’s iCloud service that may allow the company to block sales of devices including iPhone and iPad...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s biggest makers of phones, televisions and chips say they’ll lose about $17 billion this year, about three-quarters of what Samsung Electronics Co. will spend...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Carlos Slim’s U.S. mobile-phone carrier is instructing users how to switch their iPhones from AT&T Inc. to his prepaid calling...

Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study shows.That leaves them at risk from an...

cosplay so I’m assuming they enjoy the game and aren’t just being ironic. From what I’ve seen, my fellow GeekDad writers don’t generally seem to be huge fans and based on...

Google is making a big deal out of consolidating all its user agreements that nobody reads into a single, short, comprehensible user agreement that like three people will read. I say the company can...

The Daily Mail had a part of its web site hacked this weekend to display a message in support of online movement Opcensorthis, according to messages from the...

and hosting firm Godaddy continued to work its charm by managing to be offensive to women during the US Superbowl broadcast. In an advert shown during the Superbowl the firm finally managed to do...

are on the way with researchers heralding an important step towards integrating fibre optics with semiconductors. A collaborative effort between Southampton University and Penn State in the US has...

Woody Harrelson, 50, found himself the latest in a seemingly unending string of cynical marketers trying to artificially create a viral on social media, and failing spectacularly.The...

launch of a new category on The Pirate Bay, the controversial file-sharing site known for making copyright material freely available. Alongside music, films and e-books, the site offers...

Launched four years ago, the use of Wi-Fi on U.S. airlines has yet to catch on, with estimates that the wireless technology is still used by only 7 percent of the flying public. There are a number of...

virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode. Nicira was founded in 2007 and has raised $50 million from investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA, and industry luminaries...

Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs. The service is available initially...

The only effective way to troubleshoot application performance issues in a virtualized environment is with an end-to-end analysis that starts from the end-user perspective. This analysis must combine...

LONDON (Reuters) - With worries growing over computer hacking, data theft and the risk of digital attacks destroying essential systems, western states and their allies are co-operating closer than...

Mobile-phone maker HTC today reported fourth-quarter results and first-quarter forecasts far short of analyst projections. The company, which rose to prominence through its early success carrying...

(Credit: NQ Mobile) Have you heard of NQ Mobile? Neither have I. Founded in 2005, the Beijing-based company is actually an established provider of mobile security, but has nearly zero...

(Credit: Henry Ford Museum) Electric vehicles have floundered into obscurity more than once in U.S. history and now they're staging yet another comeback. Regardless how this latest wave of...

, a French photo magazine, said that will Nikon sell both the regular D800 and a D800E model with no antialiasing filter. The French price will be less than 3,000 euros for the regular D800, and the...

The city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a San Francisco hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town - possibly as early as the fall if the...

Javier Hernandez completed Manchester United's comeback from a 3-0 deficit at Chelsea on Sunday with a late header that salvaged a 3-3 draw and left the defending champions two points off the...

Kindle Fire owners were most pleased about the cost of the device, its colour screen and ease of use.However, they were less happy about the fact that the tablet, which has to come to the UK, does...

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook Inc. stock in the company’s initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, forecast revenue that missed analysts’ estimates as it awaits the introduction of new products to help it rebound...

has been installed talking CCTV cameras in residential areas which literally threaten constituents outside their own homes.The camera, spotted by London...

published a specification for C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) which is its new system for heterogeneous parallel processing in C++. Microsoft was telling the world about C++ AMP in June...

Apple over the Thunderbolt project. Thunderbolt was mostly developed by Chipzilla with a little bit of help from Jobs mob. But it seems that Apple's reality distortion field does not allow for...

after a traffic hijacking scheme was brought to its knees, the software that powered a botnet is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on nearly 50 percent of all...

Chrome browser. In a security best practices guideline, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, known by its German initials of BSI, said Chrome was the best browser. In its...

that no one noticed because he was one of those people who play for days at a time without getting any sleep. In this case he came in late one night and was seen shouting into his mobile mid-day the...

, the firm was deciding who should replace him and hours later announced the appointment of Mark Durcan as CEO. Durcan will also serve as a director on the firm's board of directors. "We...

Artivision will incorporate its front-end in-video advertising platform and back-end advertisement serving technology into an Intel software development kit that uses the semiconductor giant's...

a Kiwi who came up for a case which keeps mobile phones from getting wet wanted to trademark the idea by dubbing it the "driPhone". Hayden Crowther, of Hamilton, New Zealand, created the...

(Reuters) - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they...

Facebook is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices within weeks in an effort to tap a new source of revenues before it goes...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, forecast revenue that missed analysts’ estimates as it awaits the introduction of new products to help it rebound...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Olympus Corp., the Japanese camera maker suing 19 current and former executives over accounting fraud, will hold an emergency shareholders meeting on April 20, it said yesterday...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. almost doubled the salary of Virginia "Ginni" Rometty after promoting her as the chief executive officer of the world’s...

is warning people to prepare for communications breakdowns during the upcoming Olympic Games in London. The advice is in a PDF that has appeared on the official London 2012 web site and is called...

Reuters is saying that hours after after Appleton's death Micron's board named Durcan, the president and chief operating officer, as temporary CEO. The word on the street is that Durcan...

MPs have warned the government not to neglect the threat from extreme far-right terrorism. In a report on radicalisation, the Home Affairs Committee said it had heard "persuasive evidence"...

In a nutshell: In this 99-cent iOS game from Colaboratory, you rotate and drop multicolored pieces into a well and swipe over letters to spell words to clear away blocks. Got that? Cool factor: If...