Apple Launches Online Store in China

CUPERTINO, California—October 26, 2010—Apple® today introduced the Apple Store® in China ( apple.com.cn ) , the easiest way to shop online for Apple products including the revolutionary iPhone® 4 and the magical iPad™.

Massive Lego Map Has Europe Covered

 

A group of die-hard Lego fans in Europe have gone and created their continent in Lego-form, with monuments included. A huge geeky achievement

Track whether e-mail recipients open your messages.

Track whether e-mail recipients open your messages. Plus: Easily view sites that your social network pals recommend, and assemble bits and pieces from the Web into a 'found blog'.

A 'check-in' app for Apple Store shopping

Apple has jumped on the check-in bandwagon.

The company on Tuesday released an updated "Apple Store" app that lets customers check in to store locations, alerting Apple employees to their whereabouts and telling them what they need help with and where.

Sky offer Televition on-demand

Satellite broadcaster Sky has announced that its iPlayer-style on-demand television service will begin to roll out to customers from Tuesday. Called Anytime+ the new services will operate as an extension to Sky’s current on-screen programme guide and will be available only to Sky Broadband customers.

Apple Introduces New Laptops and an App Store for Mac

Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, took the stage at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., today to talk about upgrades to the company’s iLife and Mac OS products,

Many Germans Opt Out of Google’s Street View

BERLIN — Google on Friday said that it remained on course to begin its Street View mapping service in Germany this year despite the thousands of people who have asked the company to delete their properties.

Swiss Complete World’s Longest Tunnel

(Miners celebrate after a giant drilling machine completed the world’s longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps on Friday)

 Swiss engineers drilling the world's longest tunnel broke through the last section of rock on Friday, crowning over a decade of work.

Silicon Valley’s Solar Innovators Forced to Retool

A few years ago, Silicon Valley start-ups like Solyndra, Nanosolar and MiaSolé dreamed of transforming the economics of solar power by reinventing the technology used to make solar panels and deeply cutting the cost of production.

Windows Phone 7 handset range revealed

Microsoft has unveiled 10 new mobile phones that will run its Windows Phone 7 operating system

Ten devices running Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, will be available in shops from Oct 21, it has been announced.

Web Code Offers New Ways To See What Users Do Online

(Samy Kamkar created software to show how thoroughly computers could be infiltrated by the latest Web technology)

Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen anything yet.

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof.

Making touch screens that touch you back

Glass screens that can feel the touch of your fingers are all the rage these days. You'll find them in all kinds of gadgets, from smartphones to tablet computers.

How to create a Facebook Group

(The new Facebook Groups feature allows you to create a social network
 within a social network, as well as enjoy group chats )

Facebook has launched a new Group feature that allows people to build a social network within the social network. Here’s a step-by-step guide to how to create a group

A Machine Teaches Itself

 Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined — win at chess, predict the weather — and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced or ambiguous, or require combining varied sources of information, computers are no match for human intelligence.