GOOGLE has an outsize image as the deft master of information. Its superior technology seems to pitilessly grind up its rivals. But Google’s domination in search has proved hard for it to match in some information domains. When serving financial news and information, for example, Yahoo draws 17.5 times the traffic of Google, according to [...]

HONG KONG (AFP) – The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple’s iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge. Tens of thousands of “apps” — individual programmes that can be downloaded to the phone and do everything from recognising [...]