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A French commercial court upheld an unfair competition complaint against search giant Google Inc. and has ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.

After popular file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down last week by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the next site in danger could be the aptly named The Pirate Bay.

A start-up company has developed super thin solar cell that could be peeled away. This new technique could make solar cells more efficient and could mean cheaper solar power.

For scientists the lure of thermonuclear fusion has been incredibly attractive. Thermonuclear fusion held the promise of cheap, clean and unlimited energy. Research in the field has split into many disciplines, one of these is the experiments in the hot fusion field called "acoustic inertial confinement fusion."

The Kingdom of Thailand has agreed to Twitter's recent move to allow countries to censor tweets. Representatives from the Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have said that they will be working with Twitter to implement this new policy.

While the rest of the tech world is buzzing about the rumored Galaxy S III model that is reportedly being revealed at next month's Mobile World Congress, Samsung went ahead and revealed a new model of the Galaxy S called the Galaxy S Advance.

While the rest of the Internet community took to staging blackouts and voicing their protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, the main video game trade organization has supported the bills. It was only after SOPA and PIPA was shelved did the Entertainment Software Association withdraw its support for the controversial anti-piracy bills after widespread condemnation.

The solution to the world's energy needs could be in seaweed. A team with Bio Architecture Lab announced that they have found an enzyme that could be used to convert seaweed into its constituent sugars that in turn could be converted into affordable renewable fuels.

Research in Motion's game plan for the rest of the year was leaked online. The roadmap for the next 15 months reveals that RIM will launch new products later in the year culminating the first BlackBerry device running the new operating system in the latter half of 2012.

Apple Inc. posted record numbers for the last quarter of 2011 with sales of $46.3 billion a tech industry record.

Researchers from the University of Bristol have created the world's first magnetic soap. The revolutionary soap could find applications in cleaning oil spills and waste water.

Research in Motion Ltd. named a new CEO Friday replacing Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis at the helm of the troubled Blackberry Maker. As Thorsten Heins steps up to take the reins at RIM, the question is can he still do anything to revitalize the stumbling Research in Motion?

January 23 marked the beginning of the Chinese New Year and to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Black Water Dragon, some websites had special homepages to mark the auspicious year.

Google's new search feature called Google Search Plus has garnered a lot of attention since it launched last week with critics like Twitter slamming the search giant for favoritism towards Google's social network. The new search feature is now being investigated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a source inside the U.S. regulatory body.

Bioware's epic conclusion to its popular role playing saga, Mass Effect won't be available until March 6 avid fans of the series will be able to play a demo version on Valentine's Day to the consternation of their partners.

Samsung has denied rumors about a potential buyout of Blackberry maker, Research in Motion after a technology blog reported the South Korean firm was interested in buying RIM.

Astronomers and physicists will convene in Tucson, Arizona to discuss plans to photograph the black hole lying in the center of the galaxy.

Australia will work with other nations to develop an international code of conduct for behavior in outer space backing a proposal by the European Union.

The Consumer Electronics Show ended last week and left over 150,000 techies reeling from a sensory overload of tablets, smartphones, laptops and gadgets. This year ultrabooks and smart TVs shone as a bevy of other gadgets from 3D printers to a robotic cameraman made CES 2012 live up to its name as the biggest electronics show around. What were the gadgets that managed to stand out from the crowd? Here are five gadgets that shined at this year's CES.

Research in Motion Ltd. will release the updated Playbook operating system in February that would include a new native calendar and contact applications, as well as better integration for E-mail, LinkedIn and Twitter. RIM is hoping the new update will lure developers and consumers to support its Playbook OS 2.0 but this update could be too late to reverse the Playbook's fortune.

Health professionals are urging for greater regulation on caffeinated energy drinks after a study showed that caffeine-loaded energy drinks are responsible for a rise in people with heart problems, tremors and chest pains.

Sir Gregory Winter, a prominent British molecular biologist will visit Sydney on January 24 to speak to investors about the potential of Biosceptre International, a biotechnology company based in Australia.

Despite the media speculation about what Ricky Gervais would do as host at this year's Golden Globes, the British comedian's performance at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual awards was a very sedate affair.

The Consumer Electronics Show is over and the only thing left to do is mop up the losers of the biggest electronics trade show of the year. Here are some gadgets and companies that made a poor showing at CES 2012.

There are simple and inexpensive measures to cut back on soot and methane that once employed could save millions of lives and slow climate change for years to come, according to an international team of scientists.

Apple Inc.'s next generation iPad 3 is already in full production in China and is expected to go on sale on March.

A new British study shows that smartphones can cause anxiety and withdrawal symptoms in users addicted to the electronic gadgets.

Apple Inc. suspended its sale of its new iPhone 4S in China Friday after irate shoppers pelted Apple's flagship Beijing store with eggs and fought with security guards in a desperate bid to get their hands on the new device.

Australian and American researchers have discovered a protein that inhibits the lungs from repairing itself from smoke related diseases, in a breakthrough that could lead to a potential new treatment for patients.