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Wal-Mart to start selling iPhones

CHICAGO - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it will start selling Apple Inc’s iPhone on Sunday, but the popular cell phones that can surf the web will not be priced as low as some anticipated.

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Facebook cuts ties with Project Playlist

WASHINGTON - Social network Facebook has severed ties with Project Playlist, just days after rival MySpace cut its links with the fast-growing music-sharing startup over copyright violation fears.

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Notebooks outship desktops for first time

SAN FRANCISCO - Worldwide notebook computer shipments topped those of desktops for the first time ever in the third quarter, research group iSuppli said on Tuesday, calling it a “watershed event” for the industry.

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IBM and Sun Face ‘Reckoning’ as Budgets Shrink

SAN FRANCISCO - I nternational Business Machines Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc. and SAP AG may be among the hardest hit technology companies in 2009 as spending on computers, software and services drops for the first time in six years.

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Internet @ 2020: A Peep into the Future

DUBAI – Hearing people yell into their mobile phones without any concern for others in the vicinity may soon be a thing of the past. If the fast-paced technological advances being made each day are any indication, it is time to prepare for some more strange behavioural patterns.

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