India aims to launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile services next year that will allow users to watch high-definition video and download content at a much faster rate, a minister said.

4G technology holds the promise of Internet speeds up to 10 times faster than typical third-generation networks.

A major Yahoo shareholder believes the slumping Internet Company would be better off without Jerry Yang on its board as it mulls a possible sale.

In a Friday letter to Yahoo's board, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb asserts Yang has too many conflicts of interest to keep the board seat he has held since starting the company more than 16 years ago.

A Japanese supercomputer has broken its own record as the world's fastest machine by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second, its developers announced.

The "K Computer", which has more than 88,000 central processing units -- the computer's "brain" -- compared with the fewer than four in the average desktop, smashed its own record of just over 8 quadrillion calculations during an experiment in October. A quadrillion is a thousand trillion.

In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.

At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.

A fan site for a French rugby union team is recovering after hackers mistook it for the website of the German stock exchange and launched an attack.

The allezdax.com website for second division Dax in rugby-loving south-west France was shut down for two weeks after its usual 700 daily page hits -- 1,200 on match days -- skyrocketed to 80,000 because of the attack.

Facebook games giant Zynga is getting medieval with a CastleVille title set for release in the coming weeks on the world's leading social network.

On the cusp of an initial public offering of stock, San Francisco-based Zynga is expanding its offerings and spicing up play.

Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that it is starting a lending library for Kindle owners, letting them borrow one electronic book per month.

Borrowers have to subscribe to Amazon's Prime service, which provides free two-day shipping and streaming movies for $79 per year.

Yahoo has begun to distribute an iPad magazine that illuminates the Internet company's ambitions and the chronic hiccups that have thrown its fate into doubt.

The free magazine, called Livestand, has intriguing potential because its software can be customized to pull a deep pool of content from Yahoo's website and other participating publishers to cater to each user's interests.

MTC Touch mobile phone operator launched on Wednesday its 3G internet service during a conference sponsored by Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui and attended by MTC Touch General Manager Claude Bassil, and its Chief Commercial Officer Nadim Khater.

Bassil announced that 3G services will be available to all of MTC Touch’s 98,000 customers, adding that some 7,000 have signed up for the service in one day.

Hewlett Packard (HP) sees a future in super-efficient data centers powered by the kinds of power-sipping computer chips used in smartphones and tablet computers.

The computer giant was launched in Project Moonshot, server technology that cuts complexity, energy use, and costs, according to a description at the California-based company's website on Wednesday.