The world’s biggest planemakers Airbus and Boeing have secured a large number of orders during the first day of the Le Bourget air show near Paris. Demand for fuel-efficient long-haul planes was especially strong. Airbus...
China’s advancing technological prowess has reached the point where is has overtaken Europe in the fields of space research and travel. Germany is also finding ways to assist the Asian nation’s missions. China’s latest space...
Robust demand in China has become the engine driving growth at German auto maker Volkswagen (VW). Rising sales in the world’s biggest car market made VW shine in May, despite the dark clouds over Europe’s...
Japan’s electronics giant Sony is using aggressive pricing policy to outmuscle its US rival Microsoft in the games console market. Sony’s new PlayStation 4 will cost much less than Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox One. Sony said...
The world is longing for cheap smartphones. A new alliance between Apple supplier Foxconn and Firefox developer Mozilla plans to meet this demand by offering low-cost, web-based devices. Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn plans to develop...
Some Internet services in the European Union are blocked by providers because they undermine profits. Skype and Whatsapp are just two examples. The EU now wants to take action, but critics are skeptical. EU commissioner...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is leading a multi-million dollar investment into Berlin-based start-up ResearchGate. The firm’s online network allows researchers from around the world to collaborate more easily. ResearchGate had secured funding to the tune...
Stylish, attractive and concise – Tumblr is a free blogging platform that is a hairline between WordPress’s mainstream blogging and Twitter’s micro blogging. Tumblr’s blogs are simply called tumblrs instead of blogs. With more focus...
From paper folders to pen drives, file storage and safety has always been the source of most issues arising in your computing devices. If your hard drive crashed last week, you lost your pen drive...
Yahoo! has reportedly decided to buy popular blogging website Tumblr. The move comes as CEO Melissa Mayer tries to breathe new life into the company. A day ahead of Yahoo!’s top secret press conference in...
German state-level lawmakers agree that consumers should have the right to return mobile apps. But changing the law may do little to help consumers if companies don’t do their bit. Hundreds of thousands of mobile apps...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed cases of the SARS-like coronavirus in France and Saudi Arabia. The new cases bring the worldwide total beginning in September 2012 to 34, 18 of which were fatal....