(CNET) Is Windows Phone opening to give the iPhone a run for its cash in China? Microsoft thinks so. Making its debut among Chinese customers just two months ago, Windows Phone has already chosen up a market share of 7 percent, according to Microsoft. That's a bit higher than the 6 percent share owned by Apple's iPhone. Full reporting of Microsoft at Tech Talk Microsoft offers Windows phones to Android haters And Michel van ...

Facebook shares will start trading in New York on Friday in one of the most eagerly-anticipated share flotations in current stock market history. Demand is set be high as this week the social networking site said it would be selling 25% further shares than planned. The sale is predictable to value the company at about $100bn (£63bn), the equal as internet shopping giant Amazon. But questions remain about the firm's aptitude to make ...

Apple has closed using the phrase 4G in adverts for its latest iPad. The report proved controversial because 4G is not extensively available in the UK and the iPad will not work with it when it is. The UK's marketing watchdog and others around the world investigated Apple over use of the 4G phrase. Apple said the puzzlement arose because of the ways operators refer to different high-speed mobile technologies. Word jumble When the latest ...

Intel is about to launch a huge campaign touting new thin and light laptops. Will it goose sales? FORTUNE -- Call it an Ultrabook. Call it a Sleekbook. It's still beautiful much a wannabe MacBook Air. But for technology behemoths that count on computers like Intel and Hewlett-Packard, the new crop of thinner laptops are the newest attempt to electroshock demand. Take Intel (INTC). The Santa Clara-based company is the major supplier ...

If you're traveling overseas, your laptop could be attacked. That much, is certain, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, which warned this week that hackers are "targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while establishing an internet link in their hotel rooms." The caution comes from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or the IC3. But it lacks so many key details that security experts wonder if it's of any ...

Google just overhauled its Google+ iPhone app. whereas earlier updates had been primarily concerned with adding functionality (like video-chat "hangouts"), this time the search huge says it's all about the "sensory" knowledge. Google describes the Google+ 2.0.0.558 update (that's really the version number) as taking full benefit of the mobile experience. "We're not concerned in a mobile or social experience that's just smaller," Google's blog post reads. "We're embracing the sensor-rich Smartphone ...

Apple may launch a considerably less costly MacBook Air to undercut sales of next-gen “ultrabook” style laptops due in the second quarter of this year. It’s just another report, mind you, but if it happened, the thinking is that it could aggravate Intel’s plans to push budget-priced ultrabooks in the second half of 2012. According to DigiTimes‘ supply chain sources, the cheaper MacBook Air would launch in the third quarter of ...

More than half (52 percent) of clients would think purchasing a hypothetical iPad "Mini" this year if it were priced between $249 and $300, according to a study released Friday by online judgment shopping site PriceGrabber.com. Of the more than 2600 customers participating in the survey, only 22 percent already own a tablet. From the survey results, the greatest magnetism of an iPad Mini would be price, something Apple showed some sensitivity ...

About one out of each four Facebook users lies on their profile, and not just to make an impression that guy or gal who wouldn't date them in high school. Sometimes, it's concerning privacy. That was one of the findings of a customer Reports examination released this week. Titled "Facebook & Your Privacy," the story focuses on the ways people use the social-networking site to share information, and what happens to that information ...

A £1.1bn funding gap means the government's targets for broadband are improbable to be met, says a report by the London School of Economics. The government needs 100% access to fast broadband services and 90% access to super-fast services by 2015. The report says the government should do extra to ensure that under-investment does not damage the UK economy. A rise in broadband infiltration of 10% can lead to a 0.9%-1.5% boost in GDP per capita, the ...