Electronics giant LG has come under fire for using dishonest practices clearing Energy Efficiency Testing.

Some models of LG fridges far exceed Energy Star requirements for electricity consumption. It means the concerned two models of the LG fridges consume far more energy than their rating in common use.

LG fitted its fridges - models L197NFS and P197WFS with an illegal device that activates an energy-saving mode when it spots room conditions similar to those in a test laboratory.

Rumors are flying high that Research In Motion's much-anticipated BlackBerry slider smartphone may hit stores sooner than later.

Engadget claimed that chief executive of BlackBerry-parts-supplier said that BlackBerry slider smartphone would be launched next month.

According to reports, the CEO of Woojeon & Handan told Joins. com that his firm would supply parts for the upcoming BlackBerry slider, which would launch in April

Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying two astronauts from the International Space Station landed safely in northern Kazakhstan on Thursday.

Russia's Mission Control announced that NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian flight engineer Maxim Suraev landed without any difficulty in the vast steppe near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan.

Making announcement of Soyuz space capsule’s return, Russia's Mission Control said, “The descent capsule of the Soyuz TMA-16 ... has landed.”

Even though 78 per cent of the school-going children in the UK agree that computer hacking someone’s account is wrong, yet more than 25 per cent of them have tried to hack others’ accounts, a survey revealed.

An online poll conducted by the Cumbria Constabulary and Tufin Technologies found that 27 per cent children tried to hack other people's Facebook accounts, while 18 per cent targeted e-mail accounts of their friends.

The survey questioned 1,000 children in London and 150 in the northern English county of Cumbria.

Founders of the YouTube pocketed millions of dollars by selling the video giant to Google in 2006, documents unveiled in a copyright tussle between Viacom and Google showed.

Viacom presented the documents to prove that YouTube’s creators and Google benefited from letting copyrighted videos be posted at the website.

Sequoia Capital, which had invested around nine million US dollars in YouTube, received about 516 million US dollars worth of Google stock.

The number of kingfishers in Britain appears to have been hit hard by the harshest winter since 1960s, conservationists warn.

Low temperature and frozen water bodies have affected several species.

The British Waterways, which looks after British canals and rivers, said that a number of water birds including kingfishers and herons could have starved to death because of their inability to break through ice on ponds to obtain food.

The British developed game “Batman: Arkham Asylum” has bagged the best game title at the Bafta 2010 awards.

Batman: Arkham Asylum outshone its nearest rival Uncharted 2: Among Thieves to win the award. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves had the most number of nominations.

In addition, Batman: Arkham Asylum grabbed the best gameplay.

Awards for best action and story went to Uncharted 2. In total, Uncharted 2 took away four awards.

Internet service provider Virgin Media has announced that it would demonstrate its superfast 200Mbps broadband service at the Ideal Home Show in London from Saturday.

At the Ideal Home Show, visitors will be able to become acquainted with some of the ways the superfast connection can be used at homes.

Speaking about the new service, Virgin Media said, “Ultrafast broadband like our 200Mbps service will enable a whole household to enjoy cutting-edge entertainment, not just via computers, but through an array of gadgets all over the home.”

Google’s controversial Street View service came under fire yesterday after it included detailed pictures of the SAS headquarters.

The entrance to the SAS headquarters had never before appeared on maps for security reasons. But, Street View service showed the 180-degree view of SAS headquarters’ boundary.

Experts say that these images could be used for terrorist attacks.

Google has promised that its Street View service would not show faces and licence plates.

Sky has confirmed that it would launch its much-anticipated 3D service on April 3, with a massive Premier League showdown.

Satellite TV provider Sky will screen Manchester United’s clash with Chelsea on the day of launch of the 3D service.

Commenting on the topic, a spokesperson for Sky said, "It's fitting that one of the biggest games of the season will be the launch pad for our pioneering service."

Crude oil prices Friday morning registered a small slip, settling at less than $82 per barrel on a stronger 0.4 percent rise in the dollar index a lack of new economic data gave sellers an edge in the market, in part due to mixed news from Europe.

"Unless we're up or down $2, I consider it unchanged", posted Stephen Schork, Editor of The Schork Report, an energy market newsletter.

Though Palm Inc. managed to lower its losses in fiscal third quarter, it cautioned of considerably poorer revenue in the current quarter. Plummeting sales of the company's smart phones has caused a great amount of apprehension.

The sale of the company's Pre and Pixi smart phones haven't matched expectations. The reason for the drop in sales is that Palm Inc. has received great competition from gigantic corporations like Apple. Marketing by rival carriers has also impaired the sale of the phones.

Microsoft revealed some of the details of its upcoming mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 at the recently held web developers’ conference in Las Vegas.

The announced details showed that Windows Phone 7 will lack a number of things that enjoyed prominent place in company’s earlier Mobile OS.

Cut-copy-paste is one of the many important features that Windows Phone 7 will miss. So users will not be able to copy and paste items. Instead, the company has introduced a new feature called single-tap action.

Developer Irrational Games has revealed some of those crooks which failed to become a part of the original BioShock first-person shooter game.

BioShock’s architect Ken Levine posted some of those baddies in company’s official blog.

Some of the rejected baddies were much more striking than the splicers that we saw in final game.

The HP Mini 210 Vivienne Tam Edition netbbok is the perfect combination of technology and fashion as it is designed collectively by technology giant HP and well-known fashion designer Vivienne Tam.

The HP Mini 210, which is going to hit stores in Singapore next month, is targeting females with its lovely butterfly design on the cover.

The 1.2-kg stylish netbook is less than one inch in thickness. It was first made public at the New York Fashion Week in September 2009.