One of Google’s corporate blogs quietly announced on Thursday that the company has brought on a new tool to its search page to help users sidestep China censors --- with the software twist alerting Google’s mainland China users when they type in search terms which trigger an "interruption" of service to the search engine.

A federal court in Canada handed Research in Motion (RIM) victory over BBM Canada in the BBM trademark infringement case.

BBM Canada, which measures Canadian television and radio audiences, had sought to stop the struggling smartphone maker from advertising its new instant messaging service called BlackBerry Messenger, which in short is officially called BBM.

Computer security firm Kaspersky Labs has confirmed that a complex malicious program has been discovered stealing information from targeted systems in the Middle East.

The newly discovered malware, dubbed Flame, is said to be more complex that any other cyber menaces discovered to date.

Annual cost of supporting Windows XP operating system is more than five times that of Windows 7 OS, an IDC report sponsored by Microsoft revealed.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has long been encouraging Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7. Last year, the software giant boosted the campaign and started a two-year countdown to end security support for Windows XP.

In April 2014, the software firm will pull all support from Windows XP, including monthly security bulletins.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has exempted himself from a new compensation program under which he could collect $75 million in dividends, a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed.

Under the compensation program, Mr. Cook would have been entitled to a quarterly dividend of $2.65 on each of the 1.125 million restricted shares he has.

In the second phase of the high-profile Oracle-Google intellectual property trial in San Francisco, the 10-member federal jury unanimously ruled that Google had not infringed on Oracle’s Java patents for developing its Android mobile operating system.

At the TechCrunch Disrupt event, antivirus software developer Bitdefender introduced its new ‘Clueful’ app, which has been released on the iTunes App Store; and, as per the security firm’s claims, can help the users identify “misdemeanant” apps on their iPhone.

With speed and heat issues in AMD-chips-powered laptops having delivered a big blow to chip-maker AMD, which has long been a poor chip-industry second to bigwig Intel, the company has now pinned its hopes for a turnaround on its new "Trinity" A-series chips, which were officially unveiled on Tuesday, May 15.