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Could heavy cellphone users be more likely to suffer brain cancer? Scientists and researchers aren't sure, but they're locked in debate. ...

A turf war is going on in the mobile applications market as various companies try to carve out a foothold ...

Just as the legal slapfest between Verizon and AT&T was put to rest in court, consumers rendered their own verdict, consumers have rendered their verdict -- the latest Consumer Reports customer satisfaction survey of wireless carriers ranks Verizon first and AT&T last. ...

In wanting to give peace a chance, the Dalai Lama and John Lennon don't have much company; fighting and causing trouble seem to be the preference of most of the world ...

Online sales were up almost 14 percent year over year for 2009's Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big selling day for online retailers. Shoppers spent over 38 percent more per order compared to 2008's figures, and they bought nearly 10 percent more items per order, according to market research firm Coremetrics.

The Large Hadron Collider created by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, officially became the world's highest-energy particle accelerator on Monday ...

This story was originally published on Sept. 8, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

Major magazine publishers are about to launch a new attempt to digitize their content, according to a recent article in the New York Observer ...

On Friday, Cloud Engines launched a bigger, shinier version of its Pogoplug USB file-sharing device/service. ...

Google on Thursday opened the source code for its fledgling Chrome operating system to developers ...

British police on Wednesday announced the arrest of two people in the city of Manchester on suspicion of using the so-called ZeuS Trojan horse to commit banking fraud. The couple, who were detained Nov. 3, are out on bail pending trial. ...

Three months after Nokia announced its N900 smartphone, the device has arrived in the United States ...

Adobe on Tuesday announced pre-release betas of Flash Player 10.1 and Air 2. The technologies have been enhanced to enable access to online video on any platform, including smartphones. ...

The world's increasing reliance on information technology, combined with the growing sophistication of cybercriminals and cyberattacks, is leading to a sort of cyber-cold war, according to a new report from computer security research firm McAfee. ...

Windows 7, which was publicly released Oct. 22, has been hit by at least two security flaws. ...

Google will release its Chrome operating system for download within a week, according to a report in the blog TechCrunch, which sited an unnamed source ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it's teaming up with answer engine Wolfram Alpha to beef up its Bing search engine. ...

Clicker Media on Thursday publicly launched Clicker.com, its programming guide to Internet television. ...

Ten years after national commercial platforms for mobile commerce were launched in the Philippines and Japan, the United States is slowly beginning to creep into the field. ...

Google on Tuesday announced an experimental new computer programming language called "Go." ...