BlackBerry on Friday launched its new Z10 smartphone in Indonesia, the company's third-largest market as it rapidly loses ground elsewhere to rivals such as Apple and Samsung.

Dozens of buyers queued outside the upmarket Central Park shopping center in the capital Jakarta from 07:00 am to snap up the new device, launched in Britain and Canada earlier this year and set for a launch in the U.S. next week.

Samsung Electronics is kicking up its competition with Apple with its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone, which has a larger, sharper screen than its predecessor, the best-selling S III.

Samsung trumpeted the much-anticipated phone's arrival Thursday at an event accompanied by a live orchestra while an audience of thousands watched the onstage theatrics. The Galaxy S 4, which crams a 5-inch (12.7-centimeter) screen into body slightly smaller than the S III's, will go on sale globally in the April to June period.

Google said Wednesday that it has bought a Canadian startup specializing in getting machines to understand what people are trying to say.

The Internet titan did not disclose how much it paid for DNNresearch, which was founded last year by University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton and graduate students Ilya Sutskever and Alex Krizhevsky.

President Barack Obama entered the fray Wednesday on cyber attacks from China, saying some intrusions affecting U.S. firms and infrastructure were "state sponsored."

The comments appeared to step up the rhetoric against China following similar remarks from other members of the U.S. administration.

President Barack Obama entered the fray Wednesday on cyber attacks from China, saying some intrusions affecting U.S. firms and infrastructure were "state sponsored."

The comments appeared to step up the rhetoric against China following similar remarks from other members of the U.S. administration.

Most American teenagers use their phones to access the Internet, with one-fourth of them going online mostly on their mobile device, a survey showed Wednesday.

Some 78 percent of U.S. teens have a cell phone, and 47 percent of those own smartphones, according to the survey by the Pew Internet Project with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Trying out a new spa in Kabul, testing the latest spiky hairstyles and swapping gossip -- Afghanistan's first Internet TV station tackles subjects that the mainstream channels prefer to ignore.

Globox.tv is the latest product of a media revolution in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime -- which banned television, music and cinema -- and the station's bosses hope its bold programs will attract younger viewers.

China has expressed a willingness to cooperate with the United States and others to combat hacking, after a top U.S. official warned the international community was losing patience with Beijing.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, while reiterating China's position that it is a victim of attacks in cyberspace, said Beijing was in favor of global cooperation on the issue.

Groups representing U.S. authors and publishers called Monday on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to deny online retailer Amazon exclusive rights to websites ending with .book, .author, or .read.

ICANN is considering nearly two thousand requests for new web address endings, ranging from the general (.shop) to the highly specialized (.motorcycles).

The hugely popular SimCity game is rapidly recovering from its trouble-plagued launch but problems are yet to be completely eradicated, company officials said.

Electronic Arts servers hosting SimCity online play were overwhelmed after the California company released its Maxis Studio game on March 5, and problems continued through the weekend.