Apple agreed Friday to a Aus$2.25 million (U.S.$2.22 million) fine for misleading Australian customers about the local 4G capability of its next-generation iPad, in a case brought by regulators.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) told the Federal Court that the U.S. tech giant had agreed to the penalty for implying in advertising that the 4G function on its latest iPad worked in Australia.

Google unveiled a revamped maps program Wednesday that allows mobile users to use the service without an Internet connection as the Internet giant geared up for a possible competing service.

"You will no longer need paper maps," said Google's Rita Chen at an event unveiling the upgrades.

Twitter unveiled a new "Twitterbird" Wednesday which will be the new trademark symbol for the fast-growing company.

"Over the past six years, the world has become familiar with a little blue bird. The bird is everywhere, constantly associated with Twitter the service, and Twitter the company," said creative director Doug Bowman.

South Korea-based WeMade Entertainment went shoulder-to-shoulder Wednesday with titans at the E3 videogame extravaganza in Los Angeles with games designed to bring computer-quality play to smartphones or tablets.

The 12-year-old company behind massively-multiplayer-online-role-player-game (MMORPG) "Legend of Mir" planned to ride into the U.S. market on the back of the mobile gadget lifestyle.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics vowed Thursday to press ahead with the U.S. launch of its newest smartphone this month, despite a fresh lawsuit filed by rival Apple seeking to block the cutting-edge model.

Apple has asked a court for the Northern District of California in San Jose to ban sales of the Galaxy S III on grounds of patent infringement, Samsung said.

Football fans in China will be able to see 3D computer recreations of all goals scored in the European championships on their mobile phones, the China mobile and TV service provider WASU and Agence France-Presse (AFP) announced Wednesday.

"We are making this AFP service available to China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom subscribers," WASU chief executive Li Yiqing said. "This will be another way for them to enjoy this hugely popular sport in China," she said.

Google on Tuesday said it had acquired the software firm Quickoffice, which allows users to create and edit documents on mobile devices.

The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, helps Google compete against Microsoft and others in the mobile space with the software allowing users to view, edit and create documents compatible with Microsoft formats such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Nasdaq is taking steps toward compensating investor losses due to computer glitches that fouled trading on the first day of Facebook's $16 billion IPO, the Wall Street Journal said Tuesday.

Nasdaq OMX Group, which operates the Nasdaq exchange, has told brokers that it expects to submit plans on the issue to the Securities and Exchange Commission on how it might make up losses tied to its systems problems, the Journal reported.

The creators of the original Napster music-sharing site on Tuesday launched a new video service which allows people to chat online using their Facebook accounts.

The service called Airtime was launched by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning along with a host of celebrities at a New York event.

Google is buying Silicon Valley startup Meebo to help expand its social networking service.

The acquisition announced Monday will bring more tools to Google Plus, an alternative to Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout. Meebo started as a system for connecting people by instant message but has since built other communication features used by an audience of about 100 million Web people in the U.S.