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Treasure Hunt gets digital update in WiFi Venice
Treasure Hunting will go fully digital on Friday night when players chase a mysterious oriental wand with special powers along the narrow streets and bridges of Venice. NY thieves want iPhones, victims are fighting back
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other "smart phones" but victims now can fight back with technology. Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers
Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices. Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts
TORONTO, July 2 (Reuters) - Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market. LSE mulls alternatives to Microsoft software
The London Stock Exchange, under new top management since May, is considering changing its Microsoft-based trading system after fixing a glitch that caused a seven-hour outage last September. Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case at U.N. agency
Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website. Fame, fortune for Web tutors in education-crazy South Korea
For a teacher who never sees his students and instructs only online, South Korean Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a lot of money, $4 million (2.43 million pounds) a year to be exact. Carphone to sell Vodafone contracts again
Telecoms and retail group Carphone Warehouse will offer contracts from Vodafone from next week in its 820 stores, ending a three-year stand-off, Vodafone said on Thursday. Ericsson says wins broadband orders in China
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson said on Friday it had signed contracts with China's top three telecom operators to provide fixed-line broadband access. Intel-Nokia tie takes few years to succeed-Barrett
Intel's former chief executive and chairman, Craig Barrett, said on Thursday it would take "a few years" to see whether Intel's technology partnership with Nokia succeeds.