TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft said on Wednesday that another fix on the freshly identified security hole in Internet Explorer will be dispatched in the next few days, insisting that the patch should temporarily protect millions of global users while engineers work for an IE update.

Samsung has become a brand that is preferred and trusted by consumers despite the legal setbacks that the tech giant has been getting lately.

A new malware has been unleashed to hostage or pilfer data from computer systems running on Windows, Microsoft said on Monday.

Good news for Yahoo! employees as they get to take home a new smartphone courtesy of the company.

The infamous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, are now engaged into the social networking business following their legal battles with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, leaving the two $US65 million richer.

Microsoft’s upcoming Surface tablets will directly challenge iPad’s dominance, according to company chief executive Steve Ballmer, stressing too that the device and Windows 8 will lead to “epic year for Microsoft.”

Nintendo is gearing to morph itself as the premier fun-provider of households the world over as the Japanese firm unveiled on Thursday the new Wii U, touted as “the entertainment hub in the centre of the house.”

China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, currently two of the leading global telecommunication firms, have informed the U.S. Congress on Thursday that they were not willing tools at the disposal of Beijing to spy on other nations.

Apple did just the right thing in stretching the screen size of the new iPhone 5 to 4.0 inches and deploying much-faster cellular connectivity with the gadget, which rolls out beginning Sept 21, a new report said.

Microsoft has unmasked a new malware that reportedly operates from a Chinese domain and spreads through freshly-unboxed PCs that were exclusively assembled by a computer manufacturer, also in China.

Add Nintendo’s Wii U to your holiday gadget shopping list this December as the new game console is likely to hit the global market at around the same time that new tech toys were slated to fiercely compete for consumers’ attention.

Notwithstanding the rollout of a new iPhone, Android handsets will be scooped up in large amounts that by the close of 2013 more than a billion units will be owned by global consumers, according to a new smartphone market report.

Pitting Apple’s new iPhone 5 against Sony’s Xperia Acro S is pretty much watching the technologies from the two tech giants clashing in full force, with ‘minor’ players invited into the fray because their brand architectures are inside the fresh smartphone releases.

Mobile apps are more attractive when offered free, tech research firm Gartner confirmed on Tuesday as latest data showed that global users will likely download more than 45 billion smartphone and tablet apps by the end of 2012.

Much is expected from the new iPhone version. Apart from issuing a reengineered hardware and improved software, all packed into a slick and thin brick, Apple is also pressured to replicate and even exceed what it has been doing in the past half-decade – earning billions and really quick.

Barring unlikely force majeure, Apple’s new iPhone will definitely hit the global market this late September, prompting the tech giant’s closest rival, Samsung, to welcome the handset debut accordingly – with lawsuits.

More job losses will hit ailing PC maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the immediate years ahead, purportedly to realise more savings amid the prevailing soft environment in the global personal computer market.

Everyone’s waiting for the next iPhone version but Aussie telcos may not be overly excited that Apple’s new smartphone will be rolled out this week, a new report said.

The next iPhone version, set to be unwrapped on Sept 12, will have less Samsung imprints compared to the previous editions, with reports indicating that Apple has rolled out a program that would slowly wean away its products from components manufactured by its South Korean rival.

U.S.-based China Labor Watch (CLW) has upgraded this week its scathing review on Samsung’s labour practices, highlighting what the activist group called as “illegal and inhumane treatment,” of young Chinese workers tasked to assemble a host of Samsung products.

It’s official. The Galaxy S3, which debuted in May 2012, is the bestselling Samsung and Android smartphone to date as the South Korean tech giant announce on Thursday that over 20 million units have been scooped up by global consumers so far.

A Japanese firm said on Wednesday that it has developed the world’s smallest ceramic capacitor, which is “so small you can barely see it.”

More risks are out there on the net as mobile computing continues to explode, according to a new report by internet security specialist McAfee Labs, with malware authors now training their attention to Android and iOS, currently the dominant platform in the mobile web universe.

A day before it lets loose new Windows-powered devices in New York, Nokia unleashed on Tuesday its free music streaming service, which the mobile phone maker touted as both “enjoyable and easy to use.”

Improvements are now underway on its Chinese production facilities, Samsung disclosed on Monday, following allegations that the Asian tech titan’s manufacturing partners in China were deliberately subjecting product assemblers to inhumane working conditions.

What Samsung has been up to since losing its U.S. legal battle with Apple last week? It appears the tech giant is far from licking its wound, opting instead to push out two new gadgets that it hopes would soon eclipse the court room disappointments it just absorbed.

A funny story is sweeping the internet. Samsung paid $1.05 billion to Apple by sending 30 trucks containing five cent coins.

Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to revisit the prohibition imposed by the Labor-led government on giant Chinese network specialist Huawei Technologies.

Samsung has vowed to fight Apple’s efforts to shove its gadgets out of the United States following last week’s jury verdict that labelled most of the South Korean tech giant’s products as less innovative.