San Francisco, Feb 10 : Apple will introduce its latest iPad 3 here next month, media reports said Thursday. The next generation iPad will have faster chips and better graphics, Xinhua reported quoting the technology news site AllThingsD.

It did not say when it will hit stores. The new tablet, which will probably be named iPad 3, will feature a Retina Display or something close to it. The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S have Retina Display.

San Francisco / London, Jan 19 - Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down from its board along with all other positions he held in the company, it was announced Tuesday.

The 43-year-old Yang also resigned from the Boards of Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group Holding limited, Xinhua quoted the company as stating in a press release.

Having founded the online company in 1995 with David Filo, Yang served as Yahoo's chief executive from June 2007 until January 2009.

Two of the projects aimed at prevention of AIDS in San Francisco, the Stop AIDS Project and San Francisco AIDS Foundation have said that they will merge into one organization next month in order to improve the efficiency of services for HIV prevention and care.

The Stop AIDS Project has basic approach to AIDS/HIV prevention and education. It was founded in 1984 and has $1 million in government grants. The project will become a program of the bigger San Francisco AIDS Foundation that looks at on HIV testing, substance abuse and case management programs.

Canadian firm, Research in Motion (RIM), which is the maker of popular BalckBerry family of smartphones, is planning to release a refreshed version of its operating software for its smartphones and the PlayBook tablet.

The company said that it will install its new BBX platform in next-generation devices during BlackBerry DevCon in San Francisco on Tuesday. BBX will replace the outdated platform powering BlackBerry devices and will be built around the QNX system, which powers the PlayBook.

San Francisco, Sep 28 - Apple Inc looks set to introduce its iPhone 5 at a special event next week.

The invitation-only event will be held Oct 4 at Apple campus in Cupertino, California, Xinhua reported Tuesday.

This could be the first big product launch by the newly installed chief executive officer Tim Cook after he took over the reins of Apple from Steve Jobs in August.

According to US media reports, the iPhone 5 is expected to have a larger screen, a higher resolution camera and a faster dual-core A5 chip on which the iPad 2 runs.

San Francisco, Nov 16 - A former Facebook executive launched a new social network Monday with a twist. Path. com limits the number of friends members can have at any one time to 50.

That may be a far cry from the hundreds and often thousands of friends that many Facebook members list as part of their social network. But it allows for more effective and trusted communications with people who are really one's friends, rather than just Facebook acquaintances, according to Path CEO Dave Morin, formerly of Facebook.

San Francisco, Nov 13 - Facebook is set to announce a new email feature Monday that could challenge Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail as the most popular online email services, according to news reports.

The service by the popular social networking company will for the first time allow the site's 500 million members to use "@facebook.com" addresses and will also be integrated with Microsoft's recently introduced Office online services.

The tech news blog TechCrunch, which first reported the development, said the Facebook service would be a full-featured email client.

San Francisco, Aug 25 - Yahoo has completed the migration of its web and mobile search functions to Microsoft's Bing search engine as the two companies hope that their combined market power may prove a more significant threat to the dominance of Google.

The integration comes more than a year after Yahoo and Microsoft announced their 10-year search deal under which Microsoft will power Yahoo's search site, while Yahoo manages sales for both companies' premium search advertisers.

San Francisco, April 21 :  Apple has reported that its profits and sales jumped in the second quarter, citing increasing demands for the company's smart phones and computers.

In Apple's fiscal 2010 second quarter, it earned $3.07 billion, an increased of nearly 90 percent from $1.62 billion in the same period a year earlier, Xinhua reported.

The numbers of profit and sales beat analysts' estimates. According to Thomson Reuters, analysts expected earnings a share of $2.45 on revenue of about $12 billion.

San Francisco, March 6 - Google is to add automatic captions to the tens of millions of English-language videos it hosts on YouTube, the web search giant said Friday.

The move will make the videos more accessible to deaf viewers but will also help Google index the content and supply relevant ads alongside it, analysts said.

San Francisco, Jan 6 - Apple Tuesday said that customers had downloaded over 3 billion applications from the company's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The announcement of the milestone came as Google was set to launch a rival to Apple's hit smartphone, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs said thepopularity of Apple's product meant that it had little to fear from the competition.

San Francisco, Jan 6 - Internet search giant Google unveiled its first mobile phone on Tuesday as it increased the pressure on Apple's iPhone in a mobile market that many analysts predict will come to dominate the internet in the coming years.

Google previously released its Android operating system for phones, which has been adopted by manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola and HTC.

But the Nexus One announced Tuesday is the first device to be branded by Google and sold directly to customers.

San Francisco, Dec 31 - A day after Google announced a media event for its Android mobile phone system next week, new details leaked out Wednesday about the first ever phone to be sold directly by the web search giant.

According to technology blog Gizmodo the Nexus One will be sold unlocked on a Google website for $530. The phone will work on GSM cellphone networks and will be offered at a subsidised price of $180 in the US by fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile with a two-year talk and data contract costing $80 a month.

San Francisco, Dec 30 :Tiger Wood's sexual indiscretions have not just wrecked his marriage and his squeaky-clean reputation. They also wreaked $12 billion worth of havoc on the companies that paid him millions of dollar in sponsorship and endorsement fees, according to a new study released Tuesday.

The researchers at the University of California-Davis said that shares at companies like Gillette and AT&T and Nike lost $12 billion in value in the 13 trading days after the scandal first broke in November.

San Francisco, Dec 24 - Microsoft Wednesday issued a patch for its Word software to comply with a court ruling Tuesday that it infringed on patents relating to the use of XML or extensible markup language in its flagship word processing software.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word programs containing the infringing code from Jan 11, 2010. It also upheld jury-imposed damages of $290 million.

San Francisco, Dec 12 : An American reality TV star has given birth to her 19th child following an emergency C-section, it was announced.

Michelle Duggar, star of 18 Kids and Counting, The Learning Channel's (TLC) cable TV show, gave birth to Josie Brooklyn Thursday night at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the channel said Friday in a statement.

Duggar's baby was not due until March, but she was airlifted to hospital because her gall bladder problems were causing contractions.

TLC said that "Michelle is resting comfortably" while Josie Brooklyn stays at the neonatal intensive care unit.

San Francisco, Dec 12 :Apple has sued Nokia for allegedly infringing on 13 patents, less than two months after the Finnish cellphone giant charged in a lawsuit that Apple's iPhone violated
10 of its patents.

The counter suit Friday claimed that Nokia was attempting to copy the iPhone and its heralded user interface to help it stem Apple's lead in the market for smartphones.

"Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," said Bruce Sewell, Apple's general counsel, in a statement.

San Francisco, Dec 11- California is to get its first openly gay speaker of the assembly after John Perez, a Latino Democrat from Los Angeles, was chosen by fellow legislators for the position.

"I think it says more about California than about me. It means California is a place that everybody has a seat at the table," said Perez, 41, a former union official.

The appointment, which is to take place next year, will make the freshman assemblyman one of the most senior gay politicians in the US.

Advocates for the gay community described the move as a historic moment for the US.

San Francisco, Dec 8 - Google unveiled new features for its signature search tools Monday, including an ability to search by sight, a mobile translator and a real-time search of more than 1 billion new social media pages created every day.

Google executives showed off the upgrades at an annual company event called Searchology.

San Francisco  - Hewlett Packard has reached a deal to buy network equipment-maker 3Com in a deal worth 2.7 billion dollars, the companies announced Wednesday.

The deal will give HP an important foothold in the market for networking equipment and comes as other technology giants like Cisco and Oracle broaden their product ranges through acquisitions to diversify their revenue streams and offer corporate customers a complete set of technology solutions.