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Microsoft may have exited gadget show prematurely
Microsoft may have relinquished its starring role in America's gaudiest gadget show a year too early. After 13 straight years in the spotlight, ...
Carmakers let app developers drive innovation
It's not wise to Google the nearest gas station, compose email, or use your smartphone to check the latest sports scores while driving. But many ...
Smart TVs get smarter, by just a little bit
In the not-so-distant future, couch potatoes will be waving, pointing, swiping and tapping to make their TVs react, kind of like what Tom Cruise did ...
Iran building software to control networking sites
Iran's police chief says the Islamic Republic is developing new software to control social networking sites. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam was quoted ...
New search engine tailors its results for tablets
The makers of Blekko believe they've built a great alternative to Google, but they're also realistic. They know their two-year-old Internet search ...
Google emerges from FTC probe relatively unscathed
Google has settled a U.S. government probe into its business practices without making any major concessions on how the company runs its Internet ...
Microsoft renews plea for crackdown on Google
Microsoft began the new year harping on a favorite theme: The software maker is arguing that government regulators need to crack down on Google to ...
Telepresence robots let employees 'beam' into work
Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon ...
Iran media report new cyberattack by Stuxnet worm
An Iranian semi-official news agency says there has been another cyberattack by the sophisticated computer worm Stuxnet, this time on the industries ...
Oracle buying software co. Eloqua for about $811M
Business-software maker Oracle is adding to its cloud-computing capabilities with an $810.8 million purchase of software maker Eloqua. Oracle said ...
Changes in law aim to protect kids' online data
Aiming to prevent companies from exploiting online information about children under 13, the Obama administration on Wednesday imposed sweeping changes ...
Internet ad revenue rises 18 pct to $9.3B in 3Q
Internet advertising hit a new high in the third quarter as marketers continued to shift money from print and broadcasting. The $9.3 billion spent on ...
Software industry braces for new phone apps rules
A cellphone game for kids about U.S. geography, "Stack the States," gets rave reviews from parents. Its creator, Dan Russell-Pinson, considered making ...
Review: New Google Maps boasts big improvements
Like a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see Google Maps return to the iPhone. I'd been frustrated with the Apple mapping software that had ...
Internet restrictions across the world
Envoys in Dubai signed a new U.N. telecommunications treaty Friday that a U.S.-led delegation says endorses greater government control of the Internet
UN telecom chief 'surprised' by US-led treaty snub
Envoys from nearly 90 nations signed Friday the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty since the Internet age, but the U.S. and other Western ...
Senate takes step toward banning stalking software
A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress.
Google Maps return to iPhone with new mobile app
Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone. The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the ...
10 arrested in international cybercrime ring
Ten people have been arrested as part of an investigation into international cybercrime rings that steal millions of computer users' credit card, bank ...
Government investigating makers of cellphone apps
The government is investigating whether software companies that make cellphone apps violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting ...
Ford says software update will fix fire problem
Ford will update software on 2013 Escapes and Fusions to stop their engines from overheating, a problem that has caused a small number of fires.
Deep divides in Dubai at UN talks on Internet
Talks over possible new U.N. regulations for the Internet were deeply divided Monday, with Russia and others advocating for more government control, ...
Calif. sues Delta Airlines over mobile app privacy
California sued Delta Airlines Inc. on Thursday, alleging the Atlanta-based company is breaking state law by not warning users that the airline is ...
Ask.com adds mobile apps to its search results
You're apt to discover more useful apps for your smartphone or tablet computer at Ask.com beginning Tuesday. At least that's the thinking behind a ...