SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. When Amazon erased the books ...

SHANGHAI (AFP) - Apple's iPhone will soon officially go on sale in China, more than two years after its US debut, but it may not make much of a splash, with smuggled units and similar devices available, analysts say. China Unicom ...

HELSINKI (AFP) - Faced with increased competition from up-and-coming rivals, Finnish telecom giant Nokia plans to launch a slew of new products this year but analysts say it faces a tough battle to hold on to ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) - A Vietnamese blogger who was arrested in a recent crackdown and who also printed T-shirts to protest a controversial mining project has been released after a week in custody, he told AFP Sunday. Bui Thanh ...

WASHINGTON – Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous plasma tides on the star. Those ...

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's privacy czar announced on Thursday that Facebook has agreed to changes to better secure the privacy of users of the popular social networking site. The negotiated settlement follows an ...

With its release scheduled for Friday, Snow Leopard's spots are beginning to come into focus. The newest update to the Mac OS X operating system is getting reactions across the Web -- including a tip on how to save money if you want to upgrade from the older Tiger version. Snow ...

Versata Software has won a patent lawsuit it brought against ERP software vendor SAP. The jury awarded Versata US$138.64 million in damages on Wednesday after finding that SAP had infringed five of the company's patents. The patents, granted between 1998 and 2006, concerned methods for configuring systems, pricing products in multilevel ...

Is the "malware protection" in Apple's new Snow Leopard really lame or what? But, it's on a par with other features of the OS "upgrade." Snow Leopard's anti-malware only looks worse when compared to Windows Security Essentials, which is expected to be free when it comes out of a now-closed beta. ...

After several unofficial leaks, Nokia on Thursday officially unveiled the N900, the company's first Linux phone. It's a good first step to rejuvenate Nokia's smartphone line, but will the N900 have what it takes to go head-to-head with the iPhone and Android Phones? The Nokia N900 has some powerful guts. The ...