Japanese camera-manufacturing giant Nikon yesterday laid off 1,500 of its subcontracting staff in Ayutthaya province after a slump in orders due to the global financial crisis...

Gone are the swashbuckling days of repelling pirates with cutlasses -- a British firm is spearheading use of a high-tech "sonic laser" to beat bandits on the high seas...

Software company Microsoft Malaysia and computer maker Dell today opened their first Retail Experience Store in Asia at the Mid Valley Megamall shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur...

A Malaysian technology conglomerate pledged Friday to repay $900,000 to Hollywood star Bruce Willis, but denied any wrongdoing after he took legal action to demand a refund of his investment...

Slumping forward miserably in the witness box, in barely audible tones, a young woman told a federal jury here on Thursday that she had posed as a teenage boy in a series of e-mail messages to a 13-year-old girl...

The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting over the whole thing...

We have a new smartphone speed king folks. The ever resourceful Asus is perhaps the not altogether unlikely top dog now...

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang will step down as CEO as soon as a successor is found, the embattled Internet company just announced...

One of the central themes both to science fiction and to real-life space progress was the drive to find and eventually travel to extrasolar plants...

Sony has developed a 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor for use in mobile phones, which will become available to mobile makers early next year...

A couple have divorced after the wife saw the husband having online sex in the virtual world of Second Life. So how do avatars have sex?...

Two UK citizens of Chinese origin have been caught using high end spying technology to help Chinese candidates cheat UK immigration "Life in The United Kingdom" tests...

ASIMO the robot, would you believe it, performed a robot dance like how Michael Jackson did when he was in KL. Sadly, like Mike, it is stuck with an annoying shrill voice. With that kind of voice, it won't be commanding RM 8000 an hour for lectures...

For the last couple weeks, Jim Jannard of RED Camera has been teasing everybody on the REDuser forums with vague promises and outrageous claims of revolutionizing the industry...

The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug...

It was hardly the most regal moment in the QE2's glittering career when the luxury ocean liner ran into a sandbank off Southampton yesterday...

Google's Gmail has quickly become one of the most popular Web-based e-mail applications available -- and it just added video and voice chat capabilities...

Some may find it useful to call home via the new inflight mobile phone service in­troduced by Malaysia Air­lines (MAS) but consumer groups feel that it is more of a nuisance than a convenience...

Ever wondered what car Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton drives to and from work in?...

Even though the experiment saw a poor conversion rate, the researchers said that by sending out many more messages, the owners of the Storm network could be earning £4,500 a day, or £1.6m a year...

Nasa says its Phoenix lander on the surface of Mars has gone silent and is almost certainly dead...

Adam Smith has a headache today. And it's nothing to do with the world economy...

The Penang Government will proceed with a free state-wide WiFi initiative under its Wireless@Penang project...

Large, 3.8 inch wide-screen VGA display, HTC TouchFLO 3D, desktop-class broadband browsing and a 3.5mm audio jack and more provide the ultimate entertainment combination...

...Now, I know what you're saying: "But Don, you see, by using its 'hologram,' CNN is embracing technology and taking news reporting one step further." Sorry, but I think that if you believe that, it's time for you to stop drinking Wolf Blitzer's Kool-Aid...

A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 15,000ft (4,572m) was guided in to land by an RAF plane...

Foreign hackers infiltrated the networks of John McCain and Barack Obama during the US presidential campaign, according to reports...

Raising security concerns over the usage of wireless networks for transferring crucial data, a team of researchers have purported that they have developed a method to crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standards...

The trade secret information was alleged to be worth $1 billion in research and development costs. Pani was reportedly a designer with the Itanium processor team...

...When it was first envisioned—by a Japanese construction company, The Mori Group—it was to reach 97 floors tall, surpassing the spires of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia...