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Authorities have seized Apple iPads from retailers in a city in northern China due to a dispute with a domestic company that says it owns the iPad name, an official said Monday.

Rupert Murdoch is under pressure over his Sun tabloid after the arrests of several senior staff in a corruption probe, but whistleblowers inside his media empire may pose more of a threat than the public outrage that forced the closure of its sister paper.

Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations.

The Indian Microsoft store Web site has been hacked. The Web site is currently inaccessible, but it previously feature a message from a hacker group called EvilShadowTeam.

Communications testing equipment built at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland over the past five years is ready to start its journey to space.

Hosting Oscar organizers' Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday night, actress Milla Jovovich, a veteran of effects-driven movies like the "Resident Evil" franchise, confessed she knew little about what actually goes on behind the cameras.

Cooper is making available a free NC Sex Offender Registry application for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch developed by his NC Department of Justice.

But before the candles were blown out on the Discovery Museum's 50th birthday celebration, Staples High School in Westport walked away with the first-place trophy in the second annual Rube Goldberg design competition.

The measure would let police attach a device to a suspect's car that uses global positioning system technology to track its movement if a judge approves a warrant.

Police in the Dominican Republic have raided the office and home of the manager of an online newspaper suspected of hacking into people's emails.

A southwestern Ontario construction and design firm specializing in ag buildings has struck a partnership with a major milking equipment supplier to offer a full-service dairy barn package.

On Friday officials unveiled the Cray XMT2 supercomputer at the new Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing.

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are bracing for an announcement of NASA's budget in anticipation of major cuts.

The CIA's Web site was down this afternoon in what looked like a distributed denial-of-service attack publicized by members of the online activist group Anonymous.

Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported.

It's a rumor that won't die: Apple and a 7-inch iPad . On Thursday, Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research , told Computerworld that he expects Apple to release an iPad in a 7-inch screen size later this year, after a speculated March introduction of an iPad 3 with a 9.7-inch touchscreen.

If anyone can pull off the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and within a decade unlocked The former tour guide and English teacher, who is now worth around $1.6 billion according to Forbes and has dubbed himself ' Ma is now said to be contemplating taking his flagship listed ... (more)

Electronics almost never gain value after they've been sitting around for a while, but some stand the test of time better than others.

This will be the first product offering from Cloudscaling, which built its business as a services company that helped others design and create their cloud infrastructures.

Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars.