Online auction website EBay Inc. will take $1.43 billion US in charges related to its Skype internet phone division, and said Niklas Zennstrom, the co-founder and CEO of Skype, is stepping down.

Rival software companies Adobe Systems and Microsoft Corp. each made moves Monday to join Google Inc. in the now-crowded market of companies bringing documents from the desktop to online browsers.

Internet-based television service Joost on Monday launched its software for Mac and Windows, making the peer-to-peer technology widely available to the public for the first time.

High levels of pollution-generated ozone compromise the immune system, killing key bacteria-fighting cells, new research shows.

Mobile phone giant Nokia is paying $8.1 billion US to acquire Navteq, a leading maker of navigation software.

An influential group of Canadian chief executives says global warming is the most pressing issue the world faces today and business must do its share to fight the problem.

Sony Corp. on Monday unveiled the first flat-screen television using organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology, a display method more common in laptops and mobile phones.

Innovative rock band Radiohead has stunned the music world by announcing that its forthcoming album will make its debut as a digital download available for whatever individual consumers want to pay for it.

Interac will be testing new debit and credit cards embedded with microchips to make it more difficult for criminals to steal data - and the cardholder's money.

Grizzly bears may have a difficult time surviving if wildlife groups implement a plan to reintroduce them to the Prairies, according to a Saskatchewan biologist.

Cockroaches, like humans, have dramatic daily variations in their ability to learn, say biologists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

The federal government has announced almost $460,000 in funding for projects aimed at boosting alternative fuel production and organic agriculture on Prince Edward Island.

Microsoft says it will continue to sell its Windows XP operating system for an extra five months in response to demand from customers.

Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled an upgraded fuel-cell vehicle that successfully completed a long-distance test run Friday, a move to take a lead in the future power-train technology race.

Google has gobbled up mobile social networking and communication platform Zingku, causing rampant speculation among Google-followers about its plans for mobile space.

Canadians who make a habit of selling goods on eBay should brace themselves for some attention from the tax department.

Oxygen began to appear on Earth millions of years earlier than scientists had thought, new research indicates.

Scientists say they have found a way to use discarded chicken eggshells to help make hydrogen fuel.

A team of international scientists has sequenced DNA from the hair shafts of 13 Siberian woolly mammoths, showing that it may be possible to study the genomes of animals in museum collections - even specimens that are hundreds of years old.

NASA's spacecraft Dawn launched shortly after the sun rose on Thursday, beginning its eight-year journey across 6.4 billion kilometres in space.

Researchers from a Quebec university suggested Wednesday that global warming caused changes in Canada's most northerly lake.

British Columbia will test a virtual ID card that enables citizens to connect with the government's online services more easily and safely.

Global warming is leading to complicated and unexpected changes for the lobster industry, say scientists gathered at an international conference in Charlottetown.

Playing an online game beats computer tutorials or written materials in arming people against phishing attacks, Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have determined.