The New South Wales Government is calling for volunteers to live rent free for a year in a so-called smart home in Sydney.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it aimed to triple smartphone shipments this year to more than 18 million units as the world's second-biggest cellphone maker scrambles to make a mark in the fast-growing smartphone market.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google is ramping up its entry in the hotly competitive smartphone race by adding "pinch-to-zoom" multi-touch and 3G wireless broadband network capabilities to the Nexus One.

More than a million a smartphone users have downloaded the free navigation software that Nokia started offering last month, the mobile phone maker says.

ROME (AFP) - The developer of iMussolini, a popular iPhone application of the fascist dictator's speeches, said he took down the application from the Apple online store after legal threats from Cinecitta Luce, who says it owns the copyright for the videos.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - ABI Research said Tuesday that Apple's iPad highlights the "real start" of a tablet computer market that should grow more than tenfold to reach about 57 million devices sold annually by 2015.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - As iPad commanded the technology world's attention, Google continued working quietly on tablet computer software that could run rivals to Apple's latest creation.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's 10-month-old search engine Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google, can be a viable runner-up and make money online eventually, according to one of its top executives.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama answered questions from YouTube users Monday in the latest embrace of cyberspace by a White House that has also launched Facebook and MySpace pages and Twitter and Flickr feeds.

Panic over a doomed Air France flight months earlier sparked the altercation on a Brazilian jet in December, a court heard on Monday.

A brain implant that could restore some limb control to a quadriplegic person is "not too far" away, according to one of the world's leading researchers.

TAIPEI (AFP) - The iPad may have been designed in the United States, but Apple's money-spinning products are manufactured in the high-tech factories of east Asia.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - As Apple takes a bruising over the moniker of its latest creation some technology analysts are shrugging off the fuss over the name to focus on what's inside the iPad: a speedy new chip.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US-based group of Holocaust survivors on Friday condemned an Apple iPhone application featuring speeches by Benito Mussolini, calling it "an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism."

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Hackers and scammers are cashing in on iPad fever by luring the curious to booby-trapped websites with false promises of information about Apple's new tablet computer.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Osama bin Laden's foray into climate change has sparked a lively guessing game on Twitter as to what subject the Al-Qaeda chief may choose to address on his next tape.

TOKYO (AFP) - Apple's new tablet PC is not the first product to be called the "iPad".

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics expects rapidly recovering demand for its premium computer memory chips and flat screen TVs to drive growth this year, with the unwinding of global stimulus measures the key risk for sales.