- Microsoft demonstrates "breakthrough" speech translation technology Microsoft has posted a remarkable video demonstrating speech-to-speech language translation where spoken English is translated directly into Chinese and read aloud by machine in near real-time.
- Google's Motorola Mobility purchase to be completed next week Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility is expected to be completed early next week as Chinese regulators approved last August's $12.5 billion deal yesterday, Saturday.
- Further details of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 emerge As game publisher Activision officially unveiled Black Ops 2 today, further details have emerged of the fifth Treyarch Call of Duty release and its unusual storyline.
- China approaches one billion mobile subscribers China recorded 973.7 million mobile subscribers at the end of 2011, and is on track to surpass the one billion connections milestone by early spring, according to a report by Wireless Intelligence.
- In which country is Twitter more popular than Facebook? Japan is the only country in the world where Twitter has a higher number of monthly unique visitors than Facebook, that’s according to Business Insider quoting comScore data.
- Facebook growth slows for second consecutive month While Facebook is still experiencing user growth, having reached 687 million monthly active users at the start of this month, this growth rate has been lower than normal for the second consecutive month, according to Inside Facebook.