Apple shares fall after poor showing in China

Apple is in trouble after Chinese customers decided that its new iPhone 5 was not worth selling a kidney to own.

Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, said he will step down from his role as he prepares for his retirement in 2014.

Mundie has taken on the position of "senior adviser to the CEO," according to his biography on Microsoft's Web site. His responsibilities, which include overseeing Microsoft Research and other technical strategy duties, will fall to Eric Rudder, the company's chief technical strategy officer, according to AllThingsD.

Android Trojan can mount DDoS attacks

Android.DDoS.1.origin creates an application icon, similar to that of Google Play. If the user decides to use the fake icon to access Google Play, the application will be launched. This means that users will not even be aware that they have been infected.

Microsoft's Universal Translator turns spoken English into 26 languages

Computer giant Microsoft has reportedly created a software dubbed the " Universal Translator" that can convert English language spoken to it into 26 different languages.

Startups: Technology First, Market Next

Preference to tech benchmarks boosts market reputation for Bangalore-based power utility start-up Kalkitech Communication Technologies.

Apple-Samsung Rivalry: Update

A court document filed on Friday revealed that Apple is dropping all claims against Samsung's Galaxy S III Mini smartphone after the Korean company said it has no plans to formally import and sell the handset in the U.S.

Service for pirating iOS apps abruptly closes, cites 'stagnant' community

A prominent service for jailbroken iPhones that served up stolen iOS App Store applications abruptly closed on Sunday, marking a major victory for Apple in the war on piracy.

Rumor: Apple to bring Mac mini production to U.S. in 2013

Apple will reportedly move manufacture of its Mac mini desktop line to American facilities as part of the company's initiative to return device production to U.S. shores, with plants run by partner Foxconn starting recruitment for automated production lines sometime in 2013.

Bing Warns Shoppers: Don’t Get Scroogled This Holiday Season :

Bing, Microsoft Corp.’s search engine, today is launching a national campaign to highlight Bing’s commitment to honest search results and to help explain to consumers the risks of Google Shopping’s newly announced “pay-to-rank” practice, in which the shopping search results customers see are not true search results such as they see elsewhere on Google; they are actually ads that are ranked, in part, by who pays the most.

Netflix blames Amazon for Christmas Eve outage

Netflix blames Amazon for Christmas Eve outage: An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc's streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas Day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday.  

IPad Tablets

iPad continues to lead the tablet market in web traffic

Premji's Wipro

Premji‘s son may soon join Wipro Enterprises board:Rishad Premji may join the board of Wipro Enterprises. Rishad, 35, is considered a logical choice for the newly-formed, unlisted entity which comprises the non-IT businesses of Wipro.

iBerry Tablets

iberry launches two tablets with built-in 3G sim:Technology firm iberry has launched two new models of tablets equipped with third generation (3G) subscriber identification module (SIM) slots for making phone calls and internet browsing.
One model is equipped with a dual-core processor, while the other one is having quad-core processor. 

Apple Samsung Rivalry

Apple to Samsung: Keep Galaxy S III Mini Out of the U.S. and We Won‘t Sue:An interesting bit of maneuvering in the Apple-Samsung patent battle today. Apple has agreed to withdraw patent infringement allegations against the new Galaxy S III Mini following its South Korean rival’s pledge that it will not market the device in the U.S.