Google will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5-billion to bolster adoption of its Android mobile software.
Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan was called on to quit over his handling of the country’s natural calamities and a nuclear crisis on Thursday.
Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets expected to hit US shelves in force by the middle of 2010.
Toshiba said on Sunday its HD DVD high-definition video format is not dead despite being dealt a big setback by Warner’s decision to exclusively back Sony rival Blu-ray technology. Akiyo Ozaka, president of Toshiba America Consumer Products, told a briefing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that HD DVD "has not lost".
South African online retail is turning into a healthy and attractive business as more consumers access broadband and become more comfortable with online shopping, internet research firm World Wide Worx reported on Monday. By the end of this year, online spending on retail goods is expected to have grown by more than 35%.
Hundreds of gadget fans, or their paid stand-ins, lined up on Friday to be among the first buyers of Apple’s iPhone, a music- and video-playing phone that seeks to reshape the mobile industry. Just after dawn, nearly 200 people were waiting outside Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York City for the device.