TECHNOLOGY

Bionic ears maker Cochlear Ltd. is recalling its latest line of hearing implants and stopping its production due to a high number of failures of the devices in recent weeks.

Google Inc's effort to break into the daily deal industry and challenge industry leaders Groupon and LivingSocial is not going well, according to data released on Monday.

An angry father has launched a suit against the world's largest social networking site after it failed to prevent a 12-year-old girl in Ireland from posing suggestive photos of herself. This has reportedly led to sexually explicit emails from men worldwide. Currently, 7.5 million Facebook users are under the required age of 13 according to a recent Consumer Reports Study. Many, if not most are there with the casual consent of well-meaning but unwitting parents.

In an act that could be classified as part of a larger global legal war between Apple and Samsung, a German court banned Korean firm Samsung from selling an iPad-like computer tablet in Germany, ruling it had emulated the iPad.

The high-end smartphone market has attracted device makers due to its high margins and skyrocketing demand. With tens of smartphone models available today, who will emerge the winner if we send each handset to a contest where their beauty and talent will be judged?

YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley have another project in the works, a new revamped version of the social bookmarking site Delicious.

The website of Russia’s embassy in UK crashed due to a suspected DDoS attack on the day of the UK prime minister's scheduled trip to Russia. A Russian embassy spokesman said problems with the website began on Friday night. The embassy said it had set up a "mirror" website (www.rusemborguk.ru) to give the public and media access to information and developments regarding Prime Minister David Cameron’s trip to Russia on Sunday reports said.

Minecraft 1.8, the latest adventure update to the hugely popular sandbox building indie video game written in Java by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson, has been leaked.

Microsoft Corp. will host a conference this week where Windows 8 and other new products are expected to be unveiled. But there are things we'd love to see at the event but won't.

Rumors of the iPhone 5 should be over in just a few weeks. An internal memo from U.S. carrier Sprint says that employees can't take time-off during Sept. 30 to Oct. 15 due to a major phone release. The memo backs rumors that Apple Inc.'s long delayed but highly anticipated iPhone 5 will be released in early October.

Outages are occurring too often. Up to 365 million users of Microsoft Corp.'s e-mail and cloud services worldwide were scratching their heads at the end of the week: Hotmail, Skydrive, Office 365, and others Windows Live service were inaccessible. Though service was restored in a couple of hours for most, the downtime was the second in 30 days.

With an iPhone 5 release date expected in October, all talk has been about Apple's yet to be unveiled smartphone.

Apple's popular iPad is a hot commodity with consumers but can they be used to make your business better?Here are 6 ways other companies have tailored the iPad to make a better customer experience and enhance their overall service.

In a move that has come to define the dog-eat-dog business world, Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz was fired this week. Bartz has come back at this perceived betrayal with some expressive comments directed at the board of directors of the internet company.

Samsung Electronics has reportedly teamed up with Microsoft to make a new tablet computer powered by Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 8. The new collaborative device will reportedly be showcased at Microsoft's BUILD developers' conference in California from September 13-16.

Recently, SmartCompany released its list of the 10 most influential people in Australian IT. The annual list judged the people in Australia's tech industry based on their involvement in the industry and their capacity to influence the sector beyond their own companies or organizations.Here are the 10 most influential IT people, according to SmartCompany.

Australia used to not care much about wireless connectivity using smartphones, but things are now a-changing. Aussies have beaten the mobile use of Americans in terms of applications for their mobile phones, according to this new study.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority issued a warning Friday to all telecommunications companies in the country to improve their service or risk facing more regulations and fines.

The fight is not yet over for recently fired Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. Ms Bartz said she wants to keep her board seat on the tech firm, but a Yahoo statement said she could not keep the seat.

A Norton study has computed the cost of cybercrime at US $114 billion annually but there is not enough being done to prevent cybercrime.

Cybercrime had cost Australia $1.8 billion last year, a global report shows.

Developers try to keep up with the demand for smartphones and apps based on Google Android operating system, by hiring new programmers and releasing updated versions of the software.

But according to a report, Samsung Electronics may unveil a tablet powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8, marking the South Korean company's first collaboration with the software giant.

I was never the lazy student that gave "the dog ate my assignment" alibis. I wrote an article stating 1,000 reasons why Motorola's Droid Bionic would beat the iPhone 4. But that was in January, when Motorola touted a new device with amazing specs at a time when Nokia Oyj was still busy experimenting with the Meego, Samsung had yet to become a major player in mobile devices, and Apple's fifth generation iPhone was still months away.

Samsung Electronics and Microsoft have teamed up to manufacture a new tablet computer with Microsoft's latest operating system, according to a report from the Korea Economic Daily.

HTC Corp., Asia's second-biggest maker of smartphones, on Thursday filed infringement claims against Apple Inc. using nine patents it bought from Google Inc. HTC believes it now has more ammunition in its fight to fend off multiple patent-infringement claims lodged by Apple that contend phones running Google's Android operating system copy the iPhone.

As humans assimilate gadgets into their daily lives, threats of online crimes further increases, this according to internet security specialist Symantec, and latest estimates indicate that incidence of cybercrimes have reached a staggering cost of $4.6 billion in 2010 alone.

Google has confirmed that China has renewed its ICP license to operate for another year in spite the tension between the two for more than a year.

Switzerland retained for the third consecutive year its top ranking in the World Economic Forum (WEF) yearly global competitiveness survey.