Bhaskar Prasad

California-based technology giant Apple Inc. has rejected an offer from rivals, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co., that would have allowed the latter to release its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia, according to Appleinsider.

The Facebook pages of college students could, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicate which of them display symptoms of alcohol dependence and abuse.

Canada-born Ralph M. Steinman, of New York's Rockefeller University, who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the immune system, died of cancer just days before he could be told of the award.

With Apple Inc. having made the call for its Let's Talk iPhone event Tuesday, consumers are expecting the company to showcase its highly anticipated iPhone 5.

Fitbit, which is the market leader in wireless activity tracking, has launched its newest tracker - the Fitbit Ultra.

Amazon.com, which is known for its aggressive pricing strategy, didn't disappoint when setting a value on its new tablet - the Kindle Fire - which will be available for $199. The market was expecting a price in the region of $250. At $199, the 7-inch Android-based tablet is priced 60 percent below that of its competitors.

The increasing emission of carbon dioxide along with the warming planet is making the scientists and experts worry about the future of forests as per a report in New York Times.

Microsoft is continuing to lose the market share for its Internet Explorer (IE) browser faced with the largest drop in users globally last month since December 2010, with the main beneficiaries being Google and Apple.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to three researchers for their work related to the immune system.

More than 1 in 10 parents refuse or delay vaccinating their children mainly because of safety concerns, according to a national survey found.

With Apple Inc. having made the call for its Let's Talk iPhone event Tuesday, consumers are expecting the company to showcase its highly anticipated iPhone5.

The Nobel Prizes for 2011 will open on Monday with the announcement in Stockholm of the Medicine Prize, to be followed over the course of a week by the awards for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics and Peace.

With October being breast cancer awareness month a research is showing that commonly used blood pressure drugs could cut the risk of breast cancer spreading.

Men are faced with a higher possibility to have potentially precancerous lesions at an early age when compared to women, says a new study.

The Samsung Galaxy S2 has finally set foot in the U.S., on AT&T's network for $200 with a two-year contract.

Carriers are getting ready as Apple Inc. has made the call for its Let's Talk iPhone event Tuesday, when consumers expect the company to showcase its highly anticipated iPhone5.

The Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory will still be crunching data from the collider for at least more two years, according to the United States Department of Energy (D.O.E.), even as Tevatron, the world's second largest particle accelerator, was closed on Friday.

Amazon's recently launched Kindle Fire tablet, which is priced at $199 - less than half the cost of Apple's iPad tablet, may appeal to customers who are on the lookout for a low-priced device to read books and watch movies.

The 2011 Ig Nobel prize for Biology has gone to Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. Research was titled Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera).

Meg Whitman, as the new CEO and president of the Hewlett-Packard Co., will be getting $1 in base salary, a target annual bonus of $2.4 million for HP's 2012 fiscal year, and an option to buy 1.9 million shares of the company's stock at $23.59 apiece under certain conditions

About 50,000 people are expected at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Conference, beginning Sunday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

In a letter sent to Congress last Friday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States intends to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan next year. Obama claimed his administration has reversed the Taliban's momentum in the Central Asian country and that there has been improvement in the training of Afghan security forces.

Fifteen people are now confirmed dead and another 84 sickened in the recent listeriosis outbreak in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and one of the most influential al-Qaeda operatives wanted by the U.S., was killed Friday in an airstrike in northern Yemen, authorities said

The new iPhone expected to be unveiled by Apple Inc. at its media event Oct. 4 is supposed to come with 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB storage capacities, according to 9to5Mac. Rumor has it Apple will either reveal an updated iPhone4 called the 4S or a completely new iPhone5.

Samsung Electronics Co has made a proposal to Apple Inc. in order to resolve their patent dispute in Australia concerning touch-screen technology, according to Sydney court.

The 2011 Ig Nobel prize for medicine has been won by Mirjam Tuk from the Netherlands and her colleagues who found that people have a tendency to make fewer impulsive decisions when they have the urge to urinate.

Samsung has announced a press event on Oct. 11, exactly a week after Apple's Let's talk iPhone program on Oct. 4. It is expected that Nexus Prime, the flagship smartphone for the Google Android platform, will be officially presented at the Samsung event.

Tevatron, the world's second largest particle accelerator, is going to be closed for good on Friday. However, Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory will still be crunching data from the collider for at least more two years.