Samsung's success in smartphone sales helped the South Korean-based company generate record profiles for the fourth quarter of the calendar year of 2011. The company announced today that it had a billion quarterly operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.7 billion), thanks in part to sales of its Android-powered smartphones such as the Galaxy S II.
Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a further $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives.
"These are tough economic times, but that is no excuse for cutting aid to the world's poorest," he said in Davos at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Hot on the heels of a host of attacks on government websites in protest of Internet piracy and censorship bills worldwide, Anonymous is now claiming responsibility for taking down several Irish government websites. According to , the websites of the Departments of Justice and Finance went down overnight, along with several other minor departments.
Google's Android operating system's share of the global tablet computer market has risen sharply at the expense of Apple's iOS, research suggests.
Android accounted for 39% of the market in the final three months of last year, up from 29% a year earlier, Strategy Analytics said. Apple's share fell to 58% from 68%.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has claimed he doesn't pay enough tax, and says wealthy Americans should contribute more in order to solve the deficit problem.
This follows the State of the Union address in which Barack Obama called for the rich to aid with the growing deficit problem in the United States by increasing taxes for those who can afford it.
The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload has been denied bail by a New Zealand court.
German national Kim Dotcom - also known as Kim Schmitz - was arrested with three others in Auckland on 20 January in a raid requested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He has been accused of internet piracy and money laundering.
President Barack Obama will be making his annual State of the Union address to the US Congress and the nation later tonight. In preparation for the event, the official White House web site will be showing an enhanced version of the State of the Union address followed by a panel discussion with White House officials after the speech is completed.
These announcements were made by senior White House adviser David Plouffe in a recent video posted on YouTube. The video looks like it was filmed in Plouffe's White House office. However, that's not the interesting thing about the video. What's interesting is that in the back of the office you can see a PC monitor running what is almost certainly Windows XP.
Anonymous has brought down yet another US government website, as the FTC’s federal online security site was hacked by the anonymous collective, as it continues to attack sites in protest at a number of US Internet laws and the closure of file sharing site Megaupload.
