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Ask.com, the Internet search engine owned by IAC/InterActive Corp, is seeking some human help answering web surfers' questions. The company has begun testing a new service that lets users of its s...

Chinese archaeologists are due to begin searching for the remains of a Chinese ship believed to have sunk off the Kenyan coast 600 years ago. The shipwreck could provide evidence of the first cont...

Apple Inc said on Monday its popular iPhone 4 model will go on sale in an additional 17 countries on Friday, July 30. The newest version of iPhone went on sale in France, Germany, Japan, the Unite...

The public must control the intake of 3-in-1 beverages as over-consumption may bring about negative impact to their health, according to a nutrition expert. Lecturer in the Department of Nutritio...

Alberto Contador was crowned Tour de France champion for the third time on Sunday as Mark Cavendish won the final stage of cycling's premier event, which was delayed after seven-time winner Lance Ar...

It appears that technology giant Samsung is handing out free Galaxy S smartphones to iPhone 4 owners frustrated by reception problems. An account on Twitter called @samsungukmobile is contacting peo...

Competition in South Korea's mushrooming smartphone market is poised to intensify as mobile carriers and handset manufacturers are going all-out to take a bigger slice of the high-stakes, lucrative ...

Customers will not be able to get their hands on Apple Inc's white iPhone 4 until later this year, the company said on Friday, conceding that making the model has proven surprisingly difficult. Ap...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told ABC's Diane Sawyer this week that Facebook would "definitely think about" adding a Dislike button to the site, allowing users to express distaste for updates or pag...

India has come up with the world's cheapest "laptop," a touch-screen computing device that costs $35. India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost comput...

Eating less meat may be the key to keeping a healthy weight, say researchers. A European study of almost 400,000 adults found that eating meat was linked with weight gain, even in people taking in...

A new study debunks the theory that an hour of exercise a day is all you need to live a long life. Turns out, people who spend more time sitting during their leisure time have an increased risk of d...

Alberto Contador clung to the wheel of Andy Schleck up the final major climb of this year's Tour de France to remain on course to retain his crown. The defending champion held a lead of eight seco...

China on Thursday continued its nearly weeklong effort to clean up an oil spill that has dumped 1,500 tons of crude into the waters in a northeastern province. Officials are scrambling to prevent ...

A Japanese electronics firm has shown off a vibration-harvesting generator that could replace standard batteries. The Vibration Energy Cell batteries deliver power after a vigorous shake Brothe...

Several dive sites at marine parks in Malaysia including the top diving destinations in the world — Pulau Tioman in Pahang and Pulau Redang in Te­­rengganu – have been temporarily closed due t...

For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words - it is worth one billion page views a day. The search giant revealed the numbers as it announced a major revamp of its image search. Som...

Regularly using a mobile phone may increase the risk of tinnitus, which involves constant ringing or buzzing in the ear, a small study suggests. Austrian researchers recruited 100 people with the ...

A web hosting company has said it shut down a blogging platform that was home to over 70,000 bloggers because a "link to terrorist material" and an al-Qaeda "hit list" was posted to the site. Burs...

China is satisfied that U.S. Internet giant Google Inc is complying with Chinese laws after it tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page, a senior official said on Tuesday. The...

Those probably were not UFOs that hovered over China recently, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyst said. The images of the UFOs have caused quite a stir in China and on blogs around th...

A vaginal gel has significantly cut the rate of women contracting HIV from infected partners in an experiment in South Africa, researchers said. They said the gel, containing Aids drug tenofovir, ...

With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world. In a t...

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is buying Motorola Inc's telecom network equipment business, boosting its position in North America and taking number two spot in the cut-throat mobile gear market. Th...

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said on Monday it aimed to raise shipments of 3D notebook computers by 30 percent in 2011, as it makes a huge bet on booming sales of 3D products led by televisions....

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday that it has received no significant complaints related to smartphone signal reception after Apple said the issue was shared by the entire smartphone industry. ...

Lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain damaged and overall hopeless are all labels that have been given to China's so-called post-90s generation, or those who were born after 1990 who are now m...

It is one of the ironies of corporate life that the higher we climb, the less connected we are to the ordinary people. Yet if you run a company that sells goods or services to the general public, ...

Traditional flu jabs could be rendered obsolete by a hi-tech skin patch which delivers vaccines painlessly, say US researchers. The patch has hundreds of microscopic needles which dissolve into th...

Doctors are advising football fans who went to the World Cup in South Africa to check their HIV status if they had unprotected sex on their trip. Up to 25,000 England fans recently returned from S...