By Arshad Mohammed KABUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday for talks with President Hamid Karzai, a official said, with both sides hoping to stabilize the country before most foreign troops l... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday in an unannounced visit to the north African country, his office in London said. Cameron is scheduled to meet his Libyan counterpart Ali Zeidan,... [Full Article]
It was reported in March that Google (GOOG) was looking to sell the set-top box business it stood to inherit from Motorola Mobility as part of its $12.5 billion acquisition. The company was reportedly looking to sell the division for between $2.5 bil... [Full Article]
LG (O66570) on Tuesday officially announced a followup to its Optimus Vu smartphone. The 5-inch device known as the Optimus Vu II will continue to feature an odd 4:3 aspect ration along with an upgraded 1.5GHz dual-core MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 processo... [Full Article]
BGR exclusively reported this past April that HTC (2498) is planning to launch a new 5-inch smartphone on Verizon Wireless's (VZ) this fall. The device is said to feature a full 1080p HD display along with a quad-core Krait CPU, Adreno 320 graphics a... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - James Bond, the skirt-chasing, gadget-laden superspy, has an important anniversary coming up. To mark 50 years of Bond films, the backers of the 007 series are declaring October 5 "Global James Bond Day." The dat... [Full Article]
HTC (2498) will reportedly be the second manufacturer to release a smartphone on Microsoft's (MSFT) upcoming Windows Phone 8 operating system. According to a report from Chinese website WPDang, the Taiwanese manufacturer will unveil its new Windows P... [Full Article]
A total of 26 places around the globe, including farmhouses in Sweden and a Neolithic site in Turkey, have been added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites so far this year, according to a recent announcement during the World Heritage Committee&... [Full Article]
On Monday, Microsoft Corp. announced the Surface, a tablet computer it believes will compete with Apple Inc.'s dominant iPad. There are two models of the Surface, one with an ARM processor featuring Windows RT, and another with an Intel processo... [Full Article]