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Android smartphone shipments boom: industry tracker Android software powered three out of four smartphones shipped worldwide in the recently ended third quarter as the Google-backed mobile platform dominated the market.

03 November 2012

Maps fiasco mars Apple's big iPhone launch Melting bridges, misplaced landmarks, and major cities disappearing: Apple's glitch-ridden maps program released in its new mobile software has customers fuming and analysts puzzled.

22 September 2012

Apple in talks for free Internet radio: report US technology giant Apple is in talks to license music for broadcast on a custom online radio service modeled after Pandora.

07 September 2012

Swiss algorithm tracks crime, rumours, epidemics to source Scientists in Switzerland said on Friday they had devised software that can swiftly trace terror suspects, computer viruses, rumour-mongering and even infectious diseases back to their source.

10 August 2012

US spy master courts top hackers at Def Con US spy master Keith Alexander on Friday courted hackers at an infamous Def Con gathering rife with software tricksters wary of police and ferociously protective of privacy.

28 July 2012