Organisations can begin applying Thursday to register and run their own domains rather than letting the operators of ".com" and other extensions operate them. Registering a ".anything" domain is available for a $185,000 application fee.
A security researcher has exposed a programme hidden within smartphones, called Carrier IQ, which tracks user activity, including the content of received texts or of online searches. The software company denied it logged sensitive data.
The mobile phone market is booming in Africa. It will soon have 735 million people using their phones for everything from transferring money to health education and even tracking animals. For more on the subject, Markus Karlsson talks to Issam Darwish, the CEO of Nigerian mobile phone company IHS Africa.
Samsung said Wednesday it will file court injunctions in Paris and Milan seeking to ban the sale of the Apple iPhone 4S, revealed yesterday, in France and Italy, intensifying the legal battle between the two smartphone giants.
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its latest iPhone, the iPhone 4S, which can synchronise content wirelessly and react to voice commands but stops short of being the completely overhauled "iPhone 5" model that many had expected.
Research in Motion unveiled a new suite of BlackBerry smartphones in Paris Wednesday in a bid to slow the erosion of its global market share. The company hopes its new line-up will reverse a severe decline in sales.
The US government filed suit to block AT&T's $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile on Wednesday over fears the deal could stifle innovation and competition in telecommunications. It is the largest challenge to a takeover the Obama administration has made.
Sony Ericsson's Canadian eShop website has been attacked, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Hackers stole personal data from 2,000 users, forcing the site to shut down, in the wake of a massive theft of data from more than 100 million accounts.
The social network Facebook admitted on Thursday it had hired a PR company to damage the reputation of the Internet giant Google, citing "concerns" that it was breaching the privacy of Internet users to promote its own social-networking feature.
