THE eyes of a giant shrimp living on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could hold the key to developing a new type of super high-quality DVD player, scientists say. Mantis shrimps, dubbed “thumb splitters” by divers because of their vicious claws, have the most complex eyes in the animal...

AN international study may have found a link between long-term mobile phone use and brain tumours. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is to release a 10-year study into the connection between mobile phones and cancer. The report will set alarm bells ringing in Australia, which has one of the world’s...

YAHOO has closed GeoCities, a free web hosting service that it bought for more than $US3 billion ($3.25 billion) at the height of the dot-com boom. “We have enjoyed hosting websites created by Yahoo users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built,” the...

With the online ad business appearing to have collected itself at the bottom of the ravine, all eyes will be on Google’s earnings report Thursday to see if it has figured out where the path back to the top starts. Investors are feeling good about Google in the run-up to Thursday’s...

Nextel Brazil has recently launched the Ferrari special edition of the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) i9 handset. The device which is already offered in the U.S. through Sprint and SouthernLINC sports a 3.1-megapixel camera, GPS, QVGA screen, push-to-talk functionality, Bluetooth, media player, and a microSD memory...