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Japan's Sony Corp will promote its consumer business chief Kazuo Hirai to the role of president as early as April, taking the title away from Howard Stringer, who is expected to remain chairman and CEO, the Nikkei newspaper reported

Apple's foreign supply chain says the company will release the iPad 3 with a full HD display in March, and a completely renovated iPad 4 in October. The new iPads will make Apple's older iPad offerings cheaper and more accessible.

LG Electronics Inc said on Friday it would unveil its first Google TV next week, joining Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co in partnering with the search giant to get a foothold in the emerging Internet TV market.

LG Electronics Inc said on Friday it would unveil its first Google TV next week, joining Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co in partnering with the search giant to get a foothold in the emerging Internet TV market.

LG Electronics has announced its coalition with Google to launch its own Google TV. LG is the latest entry to Google's ambitious internet TV alliance, which also includes Samsung, Sony and Vizio.

LG Electronics Inc said on Friday it would unveil its first Google TV next week, joining Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co in partnering with the search giant to get a foothold in the emerging Internet TV market.

The ousted British CEO of Olympus Corp abandoned his three-month battle to replace the management of the scandal-tainted maker of medical devices, blaming big Japanese shareholders for not backing his campaign to take back the helm.

Grooveshark has been sued by the large record company EMI Group Ltd, which accused the popular digital music service of paying no royalties since entering a licensing agreement to stream music nearly three years ago.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, estimated on Friday its October-December operating profit would jump 73 percent from a year ago to a lifetime high, aided by record-breaking sales of smartphones.

The ousted CEO of Olympus Corp, Michael Woodford, said on Friday he is calling a halt to his three-month battle to replace the management of the scandal-tainted Japanese endoscope maker and to return to lead the battered company.

Investigators are looking into whether or not the White House gave too much information to Hollywood director Katheryn Bigelow and her team working on a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid.

The U.S. Department of Defense and CIA are investigating claims that the Obama administration gave Oscar Award winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow more than a peek at classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Comedies dominate the Original Screenplay category

Beginning Jan. 10 and lasting until Jan. 13, the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will officially kick off the year in tech, and give the world a preview of the must-have devices coming out this year.

Roku has unveiled the streaming stick, which is as tiny as a USB flash drive, on Wednesday, with all the functionality of set-top box, including Wi-Fi, processor, and memory. This device will be showcased at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2012 in Las Vegas next week.

The buzz is growing about the world's largest consumer technology trade show - the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (CES 2012), which will kick off on Jan. 10 in Las Vegas, and many people are wondering what the top technology companies will be showcasing this year.

Steam, only last September, had 4 million users online at the same time.

Apple, BlackBerry, Amazon, Nook and Android all have their own application stores for their mobile devices, but one man in San Francisco plans to open an app store for robotics software.

Tom Cruise's latest adventure as Agent Ethan Hunt - Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol has taken the top spot at the US box office over the three-day New Year's weekend. The action-packed thriller is the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible series and was released worldwide Dec. 16.

The Android-powered tablet is not a bad device though. The 9.4 inch device runs on the Honeycomb operating system and packs a dual-core 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The tablet also sports a 5 megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel camera up front.

Speculations are rife that Apple is likely to launch its next generation iPad - aka iPad 3 - with A6 processors onboard, later this month. In addition, rumors about the Apple iPhone 5 (or whatever the company decides to call it), are also gathering momentum indicating a launch later this year.

It is no secret that Sony has been working on the PS4 for a while

Happy New Year! Before we actually get to the new year and all its promise of new gadgets and fun electronics, let's take a quick look back at the things in 2011 that made us wince.

After GoDaddy, it seems it is Nintendo and Sony's turn to back out of supporting the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Both companies earlier figured in the House Judiciary committee's list of SOPA supporters. Now, however, Nintendo has quietly disappeared from the list and while Sony's music divisions remain, its computer division no longer supports SOPA, according to Geek report.

Sony Tablet S and Tablet P are about to receive Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich - updates, the Japanese electronics giant announced on its online community forum.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei slipped on Thursday ahead of an Italian debt sale that could prove challenging in thin volumes, while the euro's tumble against the yen to a 10-year low pressured exporters. Meanwhile, most other Southeast Asian bourses edged higher on Thursday, helped by late bargain-hunting in big caps and dividend-yielding stocks

When Apple first partnered with Intel to include Thunderbolt ports on the MacBook Pro, they may or may not have known how much interest the technology would generate in the computer world. In 2012, Thunderbolt looks to make a bigger splash by making its way onto several different PC platforms.

For the first time, Netflix has fallen below Amazon in customer satisfaction, landing with some of the worst companies in a new ForeSee poll with a rating of 79 out of 100. For investors anxious about Netflix stock, however, this survey has a silver lining. Here, find out the five things investors should know about the streaming site's ranking in this new poll.

A list of the ten most important people in world politics from the past year.