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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc and South Korean partner KTF Co will jointly develop a smartphone using Google Inc software for launch next year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.

Microsoft said it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats.

Yahoo has a fundamental decision to make, say analysts. Does it want to remain an independent company, or should it sell some or all of itself to another Internet player?

Hewlett-Packard delivered a comparatively optimistic forecast Tuesday for sales in the coming year, bucking the recent trend of gloomy predictions from other major technology companies.

AP - Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.

Washington - Two NASA astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour completed a spacewalk on Tuesday to replace a nitrogen tank on the International Space Station and begin repair of a joint on a key solar panel. Heide Stefanyshyn-Pieper and Steve Bowe...

Washington - Buying a new computer usually involves comparing models. Comparisons are more difficult than they used to be, as the number of choices has grown and manufacturers have started marketing computers with specific uses in mind. A little know...

NASA has successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modelled on the internet which could lead to new space missions.

San Francisco - Has Google invented the killer app for the iphone?The software giant has long seen internet-savvy mobile phones as its next frontier, and now it seems to have invented the perfect way to get phone users to rely on Google's search syst...

DELL is under fire after it twice advertised a computer for sale at less than half the usual price last week but then abruptly pulled the offers, refusing to honour any orders.