Technology Top Stories from Associated Press (AP): Episodes
NEW YORK (AP) , Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone has done very well, briefly unseating the iPhone as the best-selling smartphone in the world. On Thursday, the Korean company is launching a phone it hopes can top that, and entrench the company as the main competitor to Apple.
Silicon Valley wannabes from foreign nations that can't set up shop on land are looking for solution on the high seas , 12 miles from the shore, as plans have it. Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija, foreign entrepreneurs, are looking to set up a floating colony , called Blueseed , for tech workers who can't ...
LONDON (AP) , British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday he would champion self-regulation for Britain's scandal-tainted press, bucking a key recommendation of his own media inquiry and setting up what might be a bruising confrontation with his opposition and coalition colleagues.
The number of U.S. companies buying insurance to cover the costs of potential cyberattacks and data breaches rose by a third last year at insurance broker Marsh Inc., making it one of their fastest-growing lines of coverage, Dow Jones News Service reported Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) , Toiling with shovels, wheelbarrows and bare hands, about 300 workers removed 6,000 tons of stones and other debris from a vast stretch of desert in a desolate corner of South Africa over the past two years. If all goes well, it will become the place where a British-led team tries ...
Thanks to new technology, scientists can now read minds , to a limited degree, that is. Emerging imaging technology gives researchers the ability to identify what people are imagining and therefore, who they're thinking of, Business Insider reports.
Google faces a wave of public dismay and protest Thursday over its decision to scrap the Google Reader service. The service enables users to subscribe to updates from any blog, website or news service they are interested in, via a common format called Real Simple Syndication, or RSS.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) , The next phase of an investigation into a veterans charity accused of being a front for a $300 million gambling operation will focus on lobbying and campaign donations, authorities said.
HONG KONG (AP) , China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone carrier by number of subscribers, said Thursday that profit rose just 2.7 percent last year as it grappled with fierce competition and higher costs. The Beijing-based phone company said it earned 129.3 billion yuan ($16.7 billion) in 2012. ...
BEIJING (AP) , Chinese authorities are investigating whether Coca-Cola Co. employees improperly used location-finding technology in violation of restrictions on map-making. Coca-Cola said Thursday it was cooperating with investigators.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) , Florida's lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday was a front for a $300 million gambling operation.
LOS ANGELES (AP) , "Veronica Mars" fans just bought themselves a big-screen version of the cult favorite TV series. A crowd-sourcing campaign on the Kickstarter website to raise $2 million for the project hit its goal in less than a day.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Andy Rubin has stepped down as the executive in charge of Google's Android operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, ending a seven-year reign that reshaped the technology industry. The unexpected change announced Wednesday may raise new questions about Android's direction ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) , CBS Corp. is rolling out past seasons of "The Good Wife" online, the first time the broadcaster is allowing Internet access to a drama that is still airing new episodes on TV. ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) , A tax-preparation glitch affecting about 660,000 tax returns will delay refunds by as long as six weeks, with customers of the nation's largest tax preparer among those affected.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , A long-awaited coming attraction has finally arrived for Netflix's U.S. subscribers. They will now be able to automatically see what their Facebook friends have been watching on the Internet video service, as long as they are willing to open a peephole into their viewing habits, too.
LONDON (AP) , The discovery of a group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is providing new details about a high-tech piece of spy software that some fear may be targeting dissidents living under oppressive regimes.
BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd., says it has received an order for one million of its new smartphones, marking the largest ever single purchase in the company's history. The Canadian company is relying on the redesigned BlackBerry to fuel a comeback.
WASHINGTON (AP) , American businesses complained to lawmakers Wednesday about Indian trade protectionism, contending that tariff and regulatory barriers are shutting out foreign firms despite the nation's market-opening reforms.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) , A sweeping multistate investigation of a purported veterans' charity based in Florida has led to nearly 60 people indicted and the resignation of the state's lieutenant governor. Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll once did public relations for the charity Allied Veterans of the World.