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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Always wanted to take a Harvard class? Soon you’ll be able to do so from the comfort of your own home. Harvard and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer free online courses to students around the world. The initiative, known as edX, will be run by a non-profit organization controlled [...]

Facebook users who haven’t yet discovered the joys of FarmVille or plugged in to the sounds of Spotify will be getting an easier way to find apps that run on the site. On Thursday, the site unveiled Facebook App Center, a clearinghouse for social apps that sounds a lot like Apple’s online store. And while [...]

(Reuters) – Microsoft’s push into the tablet industry will see only limited success, with the U.S. software maker remaining a distant No. 3 behind Apple and Google, research firm Gartner said on Tuesday. “Despite PC vendors and phone manufacturers wanting a piece of the pie and launching themselves into the media tablet market, so far, [...]

South Korea-based Samsung Electronics announced Monday that it would spend US$7 billion to build a NAND memory chip plan in China. The plant, which will mark Samsung’s biggest-ever overseas investment in chip production, is reportedly going to be built in the central-China city of Xian. Before Monday’s announcement, analysts had anticipated the plant would cost [...]

Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has said its co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down in a shake-up. Mr Lazaridis, who founded RIM in 1984, will become vice chairman. Mr Balsillie will continue to sit on the board but not have any operational role. Chief operating officer Thorsten Heins will replace them [...]

Tanzania will be boosting the access of the internet and lowering the cost of connectivity in the country when it plans to fork out over $189 million on laying the national fibre optic network. The project will be jointly financed by China and Tanzania, while the Minister for Communication Science and Technology Professor Makame Mbarawa [...]

In a corner of a swanky mall in Mumbai is a “first” for India. A small shop by the escalators is home to India’s only “off-line” mobile phone application store, where you can buy mobile “apps” off the shelves. Mobile “apps” are functional programmes installed on phones and tablet devices, and range from games such [...]

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has resolved to take an online computer coding course. The mayor is joining more than 180,000 people currently taking part in Code Year, a campaign to encourage more people to program. “My New Year’s resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012!” he wrote on Twitter. Participants in [...]

According to a recent Bloomberg Businessweek report, Tanzania telecommunications companies are currently working with the government in order to begin paying fees in shillings, which, according to Vodacom Group Ltd., will offset the currency volatility and ensure investment. In an interview with Businessweek, Rene Meza, the managing director of Vodacom Tanzania, explained that East Africa’s [...]

The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production. The $25 (£16) machine is being created in the hope that it will inspire a new generation of technology whizz kids. The Pi uses an Arm chip similar to that found in mobile phones and is intended to run a version of [...]