Millions of Australians have been left without mobile and internet service after telecommunications giant Optus was hit by an outage. Optus is the country's second-largest provider, with more than 10 million individual customers and hundr...

Germany's transport network will be at a near standstill on Monday as two of the country's largest unions strike. Staff at airports, ports, railways, buses and subways walked out shortly after midnight for a 24-hour stoppage. Uni...

  The government has approved the supply of equipment by Chinese telecoms firm Huawei for the UK's new 5G data network despite warnings of a security risk. There is no formal confirmation but the Daily Telegraph says Huawei will buil...

  Google+, the search giant's failed social network, will finally be laid to rest on Tuesday morning. Launched in 2011 and competing with Facebook and Twitter, it was Google's fourth attempt at a social network. But the platform failed to win...

  SANTA MONICA, Calif. –  Aaron Sorkin, Oscar-winning writer of "The Social Network," may pen a biopic(名人传记电影片) about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Speaking at the P.S. Arts Express Yourself 2011 event in ...

Prereading question: Google would like to share the cake in network service. What advantages and disadvantages does it have? 29 June 2011 Last updated at 01:50 GMT Online search giant Google has lau...