The lab will seek to develop big data applications for smart cities, energy and healthcare.

Telecommunications provider, Telstra, is set to make $454 million from a new strategic partnership with Platinum Equity as it prepares to sell 70 per cent of its stake in its directories business, Sensis, to the US-based private equity firm.

With Ford CEO Alan Mulally out of the picture, Microsoft's stock will continue to slide, predict Wall Street analysts.

Microsoft, along with the FBI and Europol, said the botnet cost online advertisers $2.7 million a month.

Dean Mohareb is alleged to have gained unauthorised access to computer data.

Data Protection Authorities should immediately suspend changes to Google's terms of service, the complaints said.

The lawyers may have provided their clients access to highly confidential information, the judge said.

Research teams at MIT and Cornell take different tacks with nanotech research.

Faster and with longer battery life, but priced nearly the same as the originals

IBM disclosed technical details of its Power8 chip on Monday, with the expectation that technologies like "Watson" will get even better.

The phones will be equipped with Avanade's Mobile Airline Platform.

Samsung is the largest smartphone vendor with increased market share.

Some 60 percent of all Internet-connected devices exchange traffic with Google servers in an average day, research firm Deepfield says.

Intel has snapped up Omek, a company specializing in gesture recognition. It's part of Intel's effort to popularize perceptual computing.

Apple's in-browser versions of Pages, Keynote and Numbers are being tested by developers ahead of a public release later this year.

Australia and New Zealand staffing services provider Skilled Group has overcome recurring networking congestion with the introduction of 10 Gigabit ethernet switches.

Mt. Gox in Japan has registered as a Money Services Business with the US government.

STec will be integrated with Western Digital subsidiary HGST

SoftBank amended its offer to give shareholders more cash, while Sprint said it had ended talks with rival bidder Dish.

The Haswell-based PCs are cooler and faster than older models.