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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For wealthy Asians, mobile phones and Blackberrys are much more than a way to stay in touch, with a survey finding portable communication devices increasingly being used to watch videos, take pictures and surf the Web.

Another lawsuit has been stacked onto Apple's list of current legal battles, with another filing in Arkansas from a Taiwanese media player manufacturer, Luxpro, that accuses the company of monopolizing the player market, according to documents posted on Justia. The suit alleges that Apple controls 80 percent of the music downloads through iTunes, selling songs that can only be played on its own pr...

Sonic Studio has demonstrated its new Amarra music server at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver. Amarra is a FireWire-based media server handling PCM audio with up to a 192KHz bitrate that uses a Sonic Studio soundBlade derivative on the software side. The Amarra technology is similar to what is used to produce CD master files, promising audiophile-level music playback. It uses hardware side ...

Apple's newly-released MacBooks and MacBook Pros are allegedly selling out globally, if sales are as brisk as they have been in at least four Apple retail stores, according to The Apple Blog. So far three flagship stores have reported outages ñ London's Regent Street, Toronto's Eaton Center, and San Francisco ñ as well as the Manchester Arndale store. Comments on the page indicate that outages are...

Hong Kong - Phone users in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are Asia's most enthusiastic senders of text messages, according to a survey released Thursday. More than 97 per cent of mobile phone users in Singapore have sent text messages in the past month, ...

Research shows monkeys with electronic implants connected to brain cells can flex paralyzed muscles.

Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCain sought to resolve an old problem -- the lack of cellphone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz., nestled deep in a tree-lined canyon called Hidden Valley.

A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin winked playfully during the recent vice presidential debate, the number of people typing "palin wink" into the Google search engine surged, rising to No. 3 on the service's list of newly popular queries.

Sirius XM Radio laid off at least 50 workers yesterday, including on- and off-air talent at channels with formats ranging from oldies to modern rock, according to employees and a source with direct knowledge of the cutbacks.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin said yesterday that the agency would vote on two proposed mergers involving major wireless carriers at its next meeting on Nov. 4, an ambitious regulatory push before the end of the year.