Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a 13.8 percent increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19 percent of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of

More than 200 UK Facebook users have reported suspicious behavior following the launch of a "panic button" application last month, figures show. It was launched on 11 July. The application was launched after months of negotiations between Ceop and Facebook, which had resisted the idea.

An official `Tweet button` has been launched by Twitter to enable you automatically share external pages on the micro-blogging site.The button sits on third-party websites - and can be added to pages by web editors - making sharing external links easier.When the button is pressed a pop-up

India may temporarily shut down BlackBerry messaging services over security concerns after a meeting about the smartphone proved `inconclusive` this morning. India`s interior ministry is pressing for a deadline to be fixed for Canadian maker Research in Motion to share encryption

More than 200 people have officially reported abuse on Facebook in the last month, compared to just 28 the month before.And this sevenfold increase is being attributed to the introduction of the ClickCEOP button - dubbed the `panic button` - which was launched on the social-networking

Google`s purchase of social application maker Slide and $100 million investment in online gaming provider Zynga provider a window into the company`s social network strategy. The search engine clearly feels, as Facebook and MySpace did before it, that people want to use social widgets and

The Apple executive who oversaw development of the troubled iPhone 4 is leaving the company. Mark Papermaster has been head of Apple`s iPhone and iPod hardware engineering department since 2009 when he joined the company from IBM. His departure is widely believed to be linked to the

Employees who fritter time away on Facebook, Twitter and other social media Web sites are costing British businesses billions, new research suggests. British employment website MyJobGroup.co.uk said it polled 1,000 British workers and found that nearly six percent, or 2 million, of

Kaspersky Lab, launches its latest 2011 version of the home user products in Bangladesh. At the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Dhaka, the new product lines were introduced to the ICT business community on 8 August. Commerce Minister Faruk Khan, graced the occasion as the

A Saudi telecom official says an agreement between the authorities and the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry smart phone has been reached averting a ban on the service. He said the deal would involve Canadian firm Research in Motion installing a server inside the kingdom allowing the

Google said it would drop Google Wave. The over year-old service had "not seen the user adoption [Google] would have liked" and won`t be developed further. Two brothers Jens and Lars Rasmussen, who were also behind Google Maps, created the product. It combined e-mail, instant messaging

About 200,000 smartphones based on Google`s Android operating system are sold every day, CEO Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. Schmidt told reporters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Lake Tahoe that Android -- a mobile software launched just over a year ago -- was gaining

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has defied its critics and rivals, gaining global market share for the third month running, according to new figures. Net Applications’ latest statistics show that the world’s most popular browser accounted for a 60.7 per cent share of the global

People who regularly receive emails with attachments could benefit from a new feature that has been introduced to Gmail.Rather than go through the process of clicking on the attachment and deciding where you want to save the file to, you can simply drag and drop the file onto your

Thiruvananthapuram-based Technopark, the largest IT Park in India with 4.5 million square feet of built-up area, has successfully completed 20 years of operations in Kerala. It is the first and largest technology park in India."Technopark has played a key role in shaping IT businesses in

The attack Chris Paget showed Saturday illustrates weaknesses in GSM, one of the world`s most widely used cellular communications technologies.His attack was benign; he showed how he could intercept a few dozen calls made by fellow hackers in the audience for his talk at the DefCon

When a security researcher made personal profile information of more than 170 million Facebook users available to the public on BitTorrent--a peer-to-peer file sharing site--many questioned why he did not attempt to sell that information to an interested party. Names and profile data on

A legal battle is brewing between Microsoft and Google for control of Japan`s lucrative search market.Microsoft will try to convince Japan`s Fair Trade Commission that a search advertising agreement struck earlier this week between Google and Yahoo Japan will be harmful to competition,

Research In Motion will introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc`s iPad, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The Waterloo, Ontario-based maker of the BlackBerry smartpnone will call the device the Blackpad, according to one of the sources.The Blackpad is expected

YouTube is said to increase the video length limit from the current 10 minutes to a whooping 15 minutes. There’s no confirmation from Google, but it would be a pretty significant move for the biggest video site in the world. While most videos on the site are significantly smaller that