Apple's planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are potentially cost competitive with those it now makes in China.

Tablets and smartphones turn to instant messaging.

Parliamentarians call for ITU moves to be blocked at WCIT next month.

Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said on Tuesday that students as young as 14, below the legal working age, were found employed at a company factory in China that has been said to make products for Japanese gaming firm Nintendo.

Research In Motion said it does not believe that the patent claimed by Mformation is valid.

Industry observers are expressing concerns about Apple's environmental commitment, but also question the EPEAT process.

It's just going to be a one-way street now: LinkedIn status updates will feed to Twitter but not vice versa.

RIM says it expects to log an operating loss for the current quarter amid competitive pressures.

IBM thinks Siri will leak confidential information so its had it disabled it on staff iPhones.

One opponent has expressed worries that the bill would create a 'Wild West of information sharing'.

The audit is a pilot project at one supplier factory at this point.

An Apple VP explains that the battery charging "issues" with the new iPad are really just normal operating behavior working as designed.

Apple says the new iPad operates well within operating thermal range of up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

But the Commission warns it will not tolerate essential patent misuse.

Western Digital starts restoring hard-drive production in Thailand after devastating floods.

Global technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals grew during the first quarter (Q1) of 2011, according to Ernst & Young's quarterly report, Global Technology M&A Update, January - March 2011.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned computer users Tuesday that messages claiming to include photos and videos of Osama bin Laden's death actually contain a virus that could steal personal information.

Chinese network equipment supplier Huawei has reversed its stance and has accepted a U.S. panel's recommendation to voluntarily divest from a business acquisition that had drawn national security concerns.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has compared the company's current situation to standing on a burning oil platform in the North Sea. Nokia must decide how it is going to change its behavior, or perish in the flames as its platform burns, Elop wrote in a memo to employees.

In its first earnings report since becoming a standalone company, Motorola Mobility said it was profitable in the fourth quarter of 2010 and shipped more than twice as many smartphones during the quarter as it did in all of 2009.