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18 Sep 2013

China plans to invest 2 trillion yuan (US$323 billion) to improve its broadband infrastructure by 2020 with the aim of taking the nearly entire population online, a vice-minister said on Wednesday...

7:35AM
25 Jul 2013

The world’s fifth-largest LCD panel maker, BOE Technology, said on Thursday it planned to raise 46 billion yuan (HK$356.84 billion) in the biggest Chinese equity offering this year.

7:20PM
17 Jul 2013

Despite lingering weakness in the economy, Hong Kong has retained its position in the top-10 global rankings of leading markets for innovation, sitting alongiside China, Korea, Japan and Singapore...

5:57PM
8 Jul 2013

BlackBerry will likely face tough questions about its future at its annual meeting on Tuesday after dismal quarterly results last week triggered a 28 per cent plunge in the Canadian smartphone...

12:01PM
28 Jun 2013

Google is working on a videogame console and smart watch powered by Android software that has been a hit in smartphones and tablets, the Wall Street Journal reported.

12:52PM
24 Jun 2013

In 1941, Georges de Mestral was in a Swiss forest walking his dog when he noticed his socks were dotted with small burrs. Looking under the microscope, he saw the barbed covering of the seeds had...

10:55AM

Google revealed top-secret plans yesterday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing the internet to the two-thirds of the global population now without web access.

8:33AM

Genomics and particle physics - offering different perspectives on the fundamental nature of life and the cosmos - are the two hottest areas of scientific research.

2:37AM

Dell, one of the top names in personal computers, is planning an aggressive expansion in smaller Chinese cities as the market grows despite a global trend toward smaller devices, Dell's computing...

3:46AM

Security experts say the .su internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has become a haven for hackers who have flocked to the defunct superpower's domain space to send spam and steal money.

2:44AM

A horrific boating accident five years ago left sailor Rob Arro paralysed on the left side of his body, but state-of-the-art technology has given him the chance to roam the waters once more.

8:18AM

As oxymorons go, Allan Chan Chee-kooi has created a fitting one: a smart dummy.

1:12PM

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