Tamagotchi is re-hatching as an app.

Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app launching Thursday for Android devices. The app duplicates the egg-shaped plastic toy that became a must-own sensation like Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo and Furby after it was first released in 1996 in Japan.

Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO and a driving force behind BlackBerry, no longer owns shares in the Canadian smartphone maker, according to a U.S. securities filing Thursday.

Balsillie, who stepped down last year, said he had sold his entire stake in the company -- more than 26 million shares or roughly a five-percent stake -- as of December 31, 2012.

Android-powered smartphones and Apple's rival iPhone have extended their near duopoly with a whopping 91 percent of the global market in the fourth quarter, a survey showed Thursday.

Google's Android system was used on 70.1 percent of smartphones shipped in the quarter, while Apple held 21 percent, according to research firm IDC.

Google fired back at British telecom titan BT Group in U.S. and British courts Wednesday, escalating a year-old patent battle.

"We have always seen litigation as a last resort, and we work hard to avoid lawsuits," Google said in a statement.

President Barack Obama's order aimed at ramping up protection from cyberattacks will address only a small portion of threats and sets up a fresh battle in Congress over legislation.

Obama acted this week after two failed attempts in Congress to pass measures to protect critical infrastructure from computer attacks.

Spanish police and Europol, the European Union's police coordination agency, have busted a global cybercrime operation that infected millions of computers, a source in the investigation told Agence France Presse.

The network used malicious software to block computers and send a message claiming to be from police demanding the user pay a fine for allegedly accessing child pornography sites, the source said.

DERMANDAR PANORAMA has been awarded world’s best app at the U.N.-based World Summit Award for mobile content (WSA-mobile), a press release said Wednsday.

DERMANDAR PANORAMA is considered the “easiest-to-use panoramic picture app” by The Wall Street Journal. The application, available on both iOS and Android, reached 6 million downloads since its launch in June 2011, the realease added.

Computer chip giant Intel said Tuesday it is making a set-top box for delivering movies and more to televisions in an Internet-based challenge to traditional cable services.

Intel spokesman Jon Carvill told Agence France Presse that the California company later this year will "bring an offering to market that brings together live television, on-demand content, and a new user interface."

Google veteran turned Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer wants Microsoft to deliver when it comes to wresting market share from the Internet company she was part of for more than a decade.

During a talk before financial analysts Tuesday, Mayer spoke of "nice gains" in revenue from Bing-powered searches at Yahoo! websites but pointed to a pressing need for the Microsoft engine to win users from rivals.

Warning that cyberattacks pose a danger to U.S. security, President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to better protect critical infrastructure from computer hackers.

Obama, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, said the United States is facing a "rapidly growing threat from cyberattacks."