Gadgets-and-Tech
Iran denies behind cyber attacks on US banks
TEHRAN - Iran has denied US media reports it carried out cyber attacks on US banks, the official IRNA news agency said Friday, quoting a statement from Tehran's UN mission.
Amazon.com ramps up challenge to iTunes music store
SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon.com on Thursday launched a service that gives compact disk buyers instant copies of music in the Internet "cloud" in a major challenge to Apple's iTunes shop.
PS3 takes console crown from Xbox 360: IDC
SAN FRANCISCO, Agence France-Presse - Sony's PlayStation 3 bumped Microsoft Xbox 360 from the videogame console sales throne in December, according to a report released Wednesday by industry tracker International Data Corporation.
Skype to replace Microsoft Messenger in March
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Microsoft on Wednesday sent out word that it will "retire" its Messenger online chat feature on March 15 and replace it with the Skype Internet telephony service it bought last year.
Kingston unveils 1-terabyte USB flash drive
MANILA, Philippines – During this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Kingston unveiled a 1-terabyte USB flash drive, which is said to be the first in the world.
Nintendo 3DS sales in Japan surpass 10 million units
TOKYO - Cumulative sales of Nintendo Co.'s 3DS portable game consoles have reached 10 million as of Sunday, game magazine publisher Enterbrain Inc. said Tuesday.
Wikipedia's 'Goan war' unmasked as elaborate hoax
MUMBAI, India - It went undetected for five years on Wikipedia, but now a seemingly meticulous entry about a 17th century conflict between colonial Portugal and India's Maratha empire has been outed as a hoax.