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AmBank (M) Bhd (AmBank) has bagged the award for Enterprise Security Excellence in the SHARE/GUIDE Association (M) (SGAM) ICT Awards 2010. The award recognised AmBank's commitment to provide secured...

International space station astronauts are aiming to finish repairing a faulty cooling system in a third spacewalk that will begin at 1155BST on Monday. Astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Douglas...

A manager at Apple Inc has been charged in California with taking kickbacks he received after leaking corporate secrets to Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories, court documents ...

Adversity and stress early in life leads to long-term ill health and early death, a group of psychologists warn. A series of studies suggest that childhood stress caused by poverty or abuse can le...

Dogs are not spared the scourge of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease caused by exposure to infected rat urine which had claimed eight human lives in Pahang and one in Kedah in two months. Veteri...

A lake in Argentina's remote, inhospitable northwest may offer clues on how life got started on Earth and how it could survive on other planets, scientists say. Researchers have found millions of ...

A device thought to be the largest tidal turbine of its type to be built in the world has been described by its developer as "simple and robust". Atlantis Resources unveiled its AK-1000 at Invergo...

Business software maker Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search engine giant of infringing patents on its technology. Oracle says Google infringed patents on its Java softwa...

Peru's health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats. Four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe have died after bein...

Iraq's top army officer has criticised as premature the planned US troop withdrawal by the end of next year. Lt Gen Babaker Zebari warned that the Iraqi military might not be ready to take control...

A scientific study has shown for the first time that high stress levels may delay pregnancy. Oxford University experts measured stress hormones in women planning a baby naturally and found the mo...

The majority of Americans do not favor making affordable high-speed Internet access a government priority, according to a study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In a nationa...

A malicious application that can steal cash via phones running Google's Android operating system has been found. The program poses as a media player but once installed starts sending premium rate ...

Vietnamese government has given the green light for Vietnam to begin exporting puffer fish for the first time, Vietnam News (VNA) reported. Fishermen and seafood processors in the provinces of Ki...

The H1N1 pandemic is over and the global outbreak turned out to be much less severe than was feared just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. WHO dire...

US researchers are a step closer to discovering why some people can sleep peacefully despite the noise of modern life. A process in the brain plays a key role in blocking out sound during sleep, t...

Police in South Korea have raided Google's headquarters in Seoul. A police statement said they suspected Google has been collecting and storing data on "unspecified internet users from wi-fi netwo...

Dethroning Apple's iPhone could prove to be too big a bite for some of the old leaders of the cellphone industry, including LG Electronics, who are only now scrambling to catch up with their phones ...

People with tongue piercings risk developing gaps between their front teeth as a result of playing with the stud, US researchers have found. The University of Buffalo team says that, as well as po...

The success of the iPhone and Google's Android platform spotlights the real "killer app" in the smartphone market: having apps. That's a reality likely to haunt Research in Motion as it tries to ...

Contrary to recent reports about water content in lunar rocks, the Moon may be quite dry, say scientists. A study by US researchers, published in Science, analysed chlorine isotopes of the much-st...

Google is waving goodbye to Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online. It blamed poor take-up by users of the service, which was launched to great fa...

Children simply love to chew gum but most of the times their parents forbid them from doing so. However teenagers simply enjoy doing it. "I chew gum to keep away stress particularly when I need t...

Smartphones running Google's Android software were the top seller among consumers in the United States in the second quarter, industry tracker NPD said on Wednesday. Android accounted for one-thi...

Research In Motion unveiled the much-hyped BlackBerry Torch 9800 on Tuesday, a new touch-screen BlackBerry smartphone with a pull-out keyboard and a significantly updated operating system that is de...

Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users, a study in China has found. Researcher Lawrence La...

Keeping your heart fit and strong can slow down the ageing of your brain, US researchers say. A Boston University team found healthy people with sluggish hearts that pumped out less blood had "old...

Facebook has made its first steps into the search market. The social network has launched a trial of a feature called Questions, which allows people to pose queries to the site's 500 million user...

Reports that milk from a cloned cow's offspring is on sale in the UK are being investigated. The International Herald Tribune reported an unnamed British dairy farmer had said he used milk from a ...

I was touched by the picture of an ice cream seller in Penang that appeared in The Star on Saturday in the Thumbnails section. The vendor, though not shown in the picture, had put up a sign on his...