Beginning in October, residents of the North German city of Münster will be able to buy their bus and train tickets via mobile phone.

HP announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will use its technology to build one of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) systems designed to accelerate research in the environmental molecular sciences.

Chunghwa Telecom, the telecommunication operator in Taiwan, has awarded a 3G network expansion and services contract to Nokia Siemens Networks. The value of the contract is EUR 61.5 million.

Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to keep selling its Windows XP operating system until the end of June 2008, delaying a scheduled transition to its newer Windows Vista software by five months.

The Internet is killing off the art of telling jokes and now the average Briton only remembers and recycles the same two jokes, a new survey showed on Friday.

IRobot, a maker of vacuums and bomb defusers, said on Thursday it has developed a device for cleaning gutters on homes and a Web-controlled robot with a video phone.

Walt Disney said on Thursday it would stop operating its U.S.-based mobile phone service at the end of the year to reassess how it competes in a tough market for high-end cell phone services.

Google, the world’s Web search leader, told U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday the company is pursuing new technologies to protect the privacy of Internet users as it seeks to acquire advertising company DoubleClick.

A monk’s life is still a simple one of prayer and austerity, yet many monasteries have moved online for business, communication and even headhunting purposes.

Overcome with guilt about a sordid affair or a secret facelift? A new interactive Web site is giving people an opportunity to anonymously confess their sins online.

Palm introduced its smallest smartphone on Thursday, making its first push into the low end of the mobile market in a bid to revive growth prospects and offer a cheaper alternative to Apple’s iPhone.

Microsoft’s “Halo 3″ has dominated video game headlines this week, but if blasting aliens isn’t appealing there is more on offer in other games, including role-playing the composer Frederic Chopin.

Sharp has developed a new LCD for in-vehicle applications that achieves a contrast ratio of 2500:1.

Ericsson announced it would partner with the GSMA Development Fund, MTN Uganda, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide connectivity to refugee camps in Adjumani, northern Uganda.

SanDisk announced the opening of its production facility in Shanghai, the company’s first in the People’s Republic of China.

Leading microchip maker Intel plans to spend $300 million over the next four years on a Web training program to help teachers incorporate technology into their lesson plans.

The Internet in China is not as restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship, an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday.

The luxury unit of Nokia has started selling a phone designed jointly with Ferrari for about 18,000 euros ($25,400) at its stores in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore, it said on Thursday.

Seeking to narrow the gap with Google, Microsoft Corp unveiled a retooled Web search service that aims to deliver more relevant results and combines text, video and other information onto a single page.

Microsoft on Wednesday said its “Halo 3″ video game had $170 million in sales on its first day, easily surpassing its predecessor, 2004’s “Halo 2,” which racked up $125 million in the first day.

A new Web site is seeking to tug more forcefully on the heart strings of people who might adopt abandoned dogs by publicizing how much time is left before an animal is killed if a home has not been found.

An Iraqi insurgent group said on Wednesday it had produced the first video clip in English that shows attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and which it said was intended to show Americans their troops are losing the war.

Britain’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom launched a consultation on Wednesday to chart the country’s move to a super-fast broadband network needed to keep it internationally competitive.

Sony sold about 250,000 units of the new version of the PlayStation Portable in Japan in the four days since its launch, a game magazine publisher said on Wednesday, roughly matching total Japanese sales of the original PSP in the two months through August.

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani has opened up shop in virtual world Second Life, with a store modeled on his flagship location in Milan, his company said in a statement on Wednesday.