SAN FRANCISCO—Ailing chief executive Steve Jobs will return from sick leave to unveil Apple’s latest generation of software next week, the firm announced Tuesday. The 56-year-old cancer survivor will present Apple’s new operating system, dubbed “Lion,” at a developers’ conference in San Francisco on June 6. Jobs went on leave in January, his third medical [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Young people’s fascination with television, the Internet, video games and other electronic entertainment is making it more difficult to protect the world’s biodiversity, a UN official warned Tuesday. Because many young people are urbanized and alienated from nature, they may not realize the value of protecting natural ecosystems and species, said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the [...]
MANILA – Southeast Asian countries must act now to protect the region’s biodiversity in the face of those who want to plunder its resources for a quick profit, the Philippine president said on Monday. As an example of the threat, President Benigno Aquino cited the discovery this month of a huge shipment of illegally harvested [...]
WASHINGTON – Warnings on cigarette packets about the dangers of tobacco push smokers to kick the habit, and graphic images depicting human suffering are the most effective, a study released Tuesday shows. Nearly all adult smokers in countries where a World Health Organization (WHO) convention requires health warnings on tobacco products noticed the warnings, and [...]
Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Tuesday opened its regional headquarters in Singapore, and plans to use the city-state as a base to expand its Asia-Pacific presence.
SEOUL, South Korea—Fast-growing South Korean daily deal site Ticket Monster said it has acquired a Malaysian company in its first move overseas. Ticket Monster said Tuesday that the acquisition of Integrated Methods Sdn. Bhd., which owns an online shopping site, marks the beginning of its Asian expansion. Ticket Monster CEO Daniel Shin said the company [...]
TAIPEI, Taiwan – A laptop 0.8 inches (20 millimeters) thick with sleek tablet computing features and smarter visual performance than anything on the market today. This is what US technology giant Intel Corp. promises its new generation of processors will be able to deliver by 2012, when they power the wares of cutting-edge devices produced [...]
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics will depend on Google’s Android mobile-device software to run future versions of its tablet computers, a senior Samsung official said in an interview published Tuesday. “We’ll continue to work with Android on future tablets,” J.K. Shin, head of the South Korean giant’s mobile division, told The Wall Street Journal. Samsung Electronics is the [...]
WASHINGTON—PBS officials say hackers have cracked the public TV broadcaster’s website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about the network’s recent investigative news program on WikiLeaks. PBS confirmed early Monday morning on its official Twitter account that [...]
The House committee on information and communications approved on Monday a consolidated bill defining cyber-crimes and providing safeguards and penalties to protect the integrity and confidentiality of subscribers’ information.
WASHINGTON — The US space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station and headed back to Earth on Monday, wrapping up its final journey before entering retirement, NASA said. Endeavour’s last mission is the penultimate flight for the 30-year-old US shuttle program, which will end for good after the Atlantis mission to the orbiting [...]
NEW YORK – With the announcement of “Google Wallet” the Internet giant became the first player to dash into a future where people use smartphones as credit cards, but rivals are expected to cut its lead short. EBay quickly threw up a hurdle in the form of a lawsuit accusing Google of building the mobile [...]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Computer manufacturers of all sizes and descriptions have been pushing to get a piece of the ever-expanding tablet market created by the launch of Apple’s iPad in April 2010. The obsession with tablet computing will be on full display Tuesday as Computex, the world’s second-largest computer show, begins its annual five-day run in Taipei. [...]
