NEARLY a third of Christie’s bidders are now doing so online rather than visiting the auction room.The growth of the British institution’s online bidding community was boosted by its...

Q. I’m one of those sad people who had used the "Back Up to Disc" feature in iTunes to keep incremental DVD backups of my music and other media. But I just went to do a backup and the...

Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest US...

NEW YORK - Database software maker Oracle is rejecting a court-ordered award for $272 million from German rival SAP, saying it would rather have another trial over SAP's theft of software and...

As part of a sting operation, Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the its flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire -- but it will also stick him with an eye-popping tax bill that could reach as high as $2 billion.Industry experts say that might be one for the record...

IDC come in. Samsung, for example, used to report only the number of mobile phones it shipped -- which is not the same as selling them -- and in 2011 it stopped sharing even that. So the report IDC...

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. decided it would rather have a new trial against SAP AG for copyright infringement than accept a judge’s $1 billion reduction in a jury verdict it won against...

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- SAP AG, the biggest maker of business-management software, is extending the reach of its Hana real-time analytics product by offering the technology to smaller companies this...

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said the time to judge Apple Inc. management will be in two years because the next five to six quarters will be mainly the influence...

A NSW brother and sister have been honoured as Australia's top young science minds.The solar-themed projects by Ethan Butson, 16, and his sister Macinley, 11, took out the high school and...

Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study shows.That leaves them at risk from an...

Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy.The...

What characters can you identify? Today’s Google Doodle commemorates the 200th birthday of Charles John Huffam Dickens, the celebrated author of such novels...

This week, Michaels Isaac and Calore discuss Facebook’s looming public stock offering, take a gander at a 3-D printer that outputs to a unique fried-food format, and dig into high-definition...

Anti-Copyright Trade Agreement (ACTA) continues to lose support in Europe, with the Czech Republic becoming latest country to back away from the treaty. This week Prime Minister Petr Necas joined...

, the Raspberry Pi has had its release slightly delayed, but not by much. Units of the sub-£20 USB-style PC have been slightly delayed due to a problem with sourcing a component, according to...

(ISP) Talk Talk is offering new broadband users the chance to opt out of accessing adult material. Called Homesafe, the option is offered to new customers and will see the ISP act as a nanny for its...

have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a cure for one of the world's biggest problems, confusing the left and right ears on your MP3 player. For years, users have had to look at their...

Cisco is expected to tell the world and its dog that the hard times are over this Wednesday. The company, which is seen as a general indicator about the way the tech industry will go, has reported a...

Lenovo has lost a lawsuit in France over whether it can make customers pay for pre-bundled Microsoft Windows software. This story began four years ago when Frenchman and GNU-Linux user Stephane...

SAP over copyright infringement allegations. A Northern California jury determined in 2010 that Oracle should be paid $1.3 billion over accusations that SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow wrongfully...

Anonymous has lived up to its promise and released Symantec source code. The group has danced with Symantec for some time, but now that dance is over. A tweet from the @AnonymousIRC...

Android trojan. The company has found a new premium-rate SMS Android trojan that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded. This means that it can bypass antivirus detection. It uses a...

indexing site, BTJunkie, has voluntarily shut down over fears that Big Content has taken control of the US police force. The British site's closure comes three weeks after police managed to...

Google has launched a new search engine and social media network that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant. Dubbed "Volunia", the search engine allows users to look at bits of...

IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world....

applications or VPN for systems maintenance. "The majority of our analysis of data-breach investigations -- 76 percent -- revealed that the third-party responsible for system support,...

Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about $1 billion by a federal court in September last year. The...

Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill,...

uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. "It happened so recently that we're still...

Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualisation to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper...

(Reuters) - Hackers sought $50,000 from U.S. anti-virus firm Symantec Corp in return for the stolen blueprints to its flagship products under what the company says was a sting operation run by an...

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on...

(Credit: IDC) Apple has been crowned the victor in last quarter's smartphone wars by yet another research firm. Among the top five global manufacturers, Apple grabbed the top spot with a...

(Credit: Screen capture by Martin LaMonica/CNET) Google yesterday created a Google+ page for software developers in an effort to generate more apps for its social networking platform. The...

Safer Internet Day across Europe, with some events planned in Asia, Latin America, Australia, and the United States. The annual event started in 2004 as an initiative of the European...

Will Mark Zuckerberg succeed where Larry Page and Sergey Brin couldn't? Probably not, but it's going to be fun watching as he tries to keep history at arm's...

, I spent more time ogling his museum of NASA Apollo gear than I did talking about his startup investments. So I made an appointment to go see him again, with enough time to snap pictures of the...

Starting February 10, buy one Droid Razr or Razr Maxx, and get the second one free, part of a number of promotions Verizon Wireless is offering, including twice the data capacity at the usual...

The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, demanding that the firm remove accounts in the country that warn citizens of police speed traps and roadblocks. The authorities are...

There was an Illinois man who complained he was charged $27,000 for streaming a Chicago Bears game while he was on a Caribbean cruise.  (The Bears won and, after a nasty, drawn-out battle,...

Perhaps the most important driver of new consumer spending, and thus economic growth, will occur as young millennials decide to settle down, buy a house and start producing...

Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, the state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti said Monday. ...

Kevin Durant scrunches his lanky frame into a 1990s GMC van and heads for the Oklahoma City highways. He stops and joins the action when he spots some business men who just clocked out and started a...

(02-06) 20:19 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he doesn't think a prominent breast cancer charity should continue giving grants to Planned Parenthood...

MIAMI (AP) -- Univision and Disney are in talks to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said...

Facebook status with the message after watching the widespread disorder throughout London on television.It was then copied by his friend, Stefan Johnson, 22, who put the same posting on to his...

NetApp , did what peers at some other businesses deem unthinkable: He let the company’s 10,000 employees start making their own mobile applications for work. Do-it-yourself mobile software can...

Archive: CEO Guide to Technology Diana Gong is only 17 years old, but already she’s had experience creating a mobile app, writing a business plan, and pitching it to venture capitalists. Now...