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A scam Pokemon game reached No. 2 on Apple's App Store charts this week before it was pulled -- a debacle that calls into question both Apple's approval process and Nintendo's "no apps for us" stance. More>>
Looks like we're all about to get way more familiar with the concept of "augmented reality." More>>
As a journalist hailing from the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, the epicenter of a violent Maoist insurgency, Shubhranshu Choudhary was regularly confronted with the shortcomings of his profession. More>>
Will there be a time in our lives when cars don't crash? When a Mustang can warn a BMW that it's changing lanes – or when we can just sit back and relax and our cars will drive themselves? More>>
While it seems like just about everyone has a smartphone now, a closer look by Nielsen finds that 66 percent of those in the 24- to 34-year-old age group have smartphones, representing "the greatest proportion of smartphone ownership" of any age group. More>>
Watch out, Amazon! Barnes & Noble has just announced an 8GB version of its Nook Tablet and priced it at $199 — which makes it very dangerous competition for the similarly-priced Kindle Fire. More>>
The U.S. mobile phone industry is running out of the airwaves necessary to provide voice, text and Internet services to its customers. More>>
Apple released Mountain Lion to developers last week, a new operating system that will make your desktop computer work more like your phone than ever before. More>>
If Mario Romero has his way, we'll all be learning Braille soon. More>>
In the old days, presidents had to rely on written messages and speeches to get their thoughts across. But what if there had been Twitter? More>>
Nearly two years after tech blogs screamed "Antennagate!" over problems with the iPhone 4's reception, owners will be getting a little pocket change for their troubles. More>>
The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort. More>>
Silicon Valley has a hot new startup setting up shop: President Obama's re-election campaign. The organization is opening a field office in San Francisco. More>>
In Syria's cyberwar, the regime's supporters have deployed a new weapon against opposition activists -- computer viruses that spy on them, according to an IT specialist from a Syrian opposition group and a former international aid worker whose computer was infected. More>>
Apple continues to be the market darling as investors eagerly anticipate more news about the iPad 3, and perhaps a dividend. The stock is up 24% in 2012. More>>
In the latest high-profile flap over online data privacy, Google has been caught bypassing the privacy settings on Apple's Safari Web browser, letting advertisers track users in unintended ways. More>>
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's "Google problem" is well documented. More>>
It's not enough that Pinterest's traffic has grown 40-fold in 2011's last six months — now it's so irresistible even the U.S. Army has succumbed to the fast-growing addiction, with 24 boards and 580 pins ranging from basic training and soldiers to families, fashion and chow. More>>
Despite its commitment to streaming movies and TV, Netflix is offering its DVD-only service option to new customers again, but will it tempt those who have converted to Redbox? More>>
More consumers would definitely bite on a phone made by Amazon versus one from Facebook, according to a new survey. More>>
Kindle Fire has barely reached the toddler stage of its young life, but it's already shot up in tablet sales, second only to Apple's iPad — at least for the last quarter of 2011. More>>
Amazon set out to win the tablet market by beating Apple the way no one else could: pricing the Kindle Fire at just $199. More>>
Taking a cue from Twitter, Facebook will be rolling out "verified accounts" for its most popular users -- presumably hoping to encourage the Lady Gagas of the world to get active on the site. More>>
If you own a Motorola phone and are waiting for the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, get ready for disappointment: A handful of tablets and phones will be upgraded by this summer, while the hottest models, such as the Droid Bionic or Droid Razr and Razr Maxx, have no slated upgrade rollout dates. More>>
Despite a huge number of mobile apps created for children, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that there's "very little information"
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Facebook, the social network where everyone knows your (real) name, will now allow people to start using fake names ... but only after they verify their real identities. This may sound strange, but it actually makes sense. More>>
How do you know if your YouTube video is funny? Google says you can start by counting the "LOLs." More>>
Apple on Wednesday said it will start requiring mobile apps to get explicit permission from iPhone and iPad owners before the apps collect and store information about users' personal contacts. More>>
The hottest accessory on the runway at Fashion Week is a creation from one of New York's buzziest tech startups: 3D printed glasses from MakerBot. More>>
Ahh, yes, February 15, the joyful day when singletons can finally collapse in exhaustion after weeks of maintaining a nonchalant front. Finally, you think, finally, the incessant stream of hearts and cupids and reminders that romantic partnership is the apogee of human achievement will come to a merciful end. More>>
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday said that the world's most valuable tech company is doing everything it can to address growing concerns over working conditions at its Chinese manufacturing plants. More>>
My neighbor recently discovered a four-digit passcode that unlocks the front doors to our apartment building. More>>
Think the love in your heart is unique? You might be right. It turns out that everyone's heart beats to its own rhythm. Scientists think they can take that uniqueness to protect your data. Isn't that lovely? More>>
After negative backlash from fans outraged about Sony Music raising prices on Whitney Houston's digital albums within hours of her death Saturday, the music label has now apologized for what it says was a "mistake" on its part. More>>
Wait! Don't scroll past these words just yet — you're not suffering from a strange case of deja vu, there are simply a lot of different Apple rumors and reports floating around right now. One of the stranger bits of gossip in the bunch involves details about an 8-inch version of the iPad. More>>
While Facebook prepares to go public, Silicon Valley's other buzzy social startup, Twitter, is doing everything in its power to stay private. In pursing that goal, it has slapped its shareholders with an unusual restriction: No one who holds stock can sell more than 20% of their shares. More>>
We're going to feel a little guilty if this news gets you fired. But you can now play "Angry Birds" on Facebook. More>>
An independent labor-rights organization that Apple joined last month said Monday that it began its inspections of the working conditions at Apple suppliers' factories in China. More>>
The U.S. Army has been working for about two years on outfitting its soldiers with smartphones, but one obstacle to this technological upgrade likely will be familiar to anybody who has tried to operate a touchscreen phone in the winter: More>>
Maybe Justin Timberlake and friends weren't so crazy after all. More>>
Many people have a go-to song for every occasion, be it happy, sad or something between. And thanks to a little bit of a correlation study by the folks at relationship-status-obsessed Facebook, we now actually know which songs many tend to play as they begin — or end — a romance. More>>
A new security report warns of malware networks ("malnets") lurking within Google and other search engines, driving unsuspecting Web surfers to sites where they might share their personal or financial information to unintended parties. More>>
The social networking field's buzziest startup is under fire this week for not being completely transparent with its users. More>>
Shares of Apple reached $500 for the first time on Monday, setting yet another high-water mark for the tech giant. More>>
As solar activity builds toward an expected peak in 2013, a double-barreled sunspot has been doubling in size over the past couple of days and now has the potential to shoot significant eruptions in our direction. More>>
(CNN) -- Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported. A More>>
As if to temper all the optimistic love chatter leading up to Valentine's Day, a survey of divorce lawyers has found 92 percent of them think there's been a dramatic increase in the number of cases using evidence taken from cellphones during the past three years. More>>
Google released the newest version of its Chrome Web browser, patching 20 security holes and adding a new feature to keep users automatically protected against dangerous downloads. More>>
The tech world is all abuzz about Google's mysterious new "entertainment device." More>>
Something strange happened earlier this week: The people of the Internet - not exactly known for their generosity - gave $1 million in a SINGLE DAY to an online game that hasn't even been created yet. More>>
Electronics almost never gain value after they've been sitting around for a while, but some stand the test of time better than others. More>>
Protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world on Thursday to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at factories run by Apple's suppliers in China and other overseas locations. More>>
Grown-ups have it easier in a lot more ways than their younger counterparts: They can stay up as late as they want, they don't have anyone nagging them to clean up their room — and adult bullying is less of an issue than teen bullying. Maybe that's why more adults than teens view people as more "kind" than nasty on Facebook and other social networking sites, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. More>>
The company that invented home photography has tossed in the towel on it. More>>
Welcome to the big leagues, Groupon. Shareholders punished the stock after the daily deals site posted a surprise loss for its first quarter as a public company. More>>
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, we took a look at the Republican candidates' standing in the social-media world -- comparing everything from Facebook "likes" to Twitter followers to YouTube channel views. More>>
Lady Gaga is already the reigning queen of Twitter, with her nearly 19 million followers topping those of anyone else on the site. More>>
The very public war between Zynga and its critics in recent weeks has led many to wonder how and why such blatant copycats are allowed to be part of Apple's App Store, the ecosystem in which they are distributed and thrive, in the first place. More>>
When the Department of Justice shut down Megaupload.com last month, it wasn't just Megaupload users' files that went offline. More>>
With the rise in popularity of social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, many scammers are finding it easy to sell fraudulent investment scams to unwary investors. The Texas State Securities Board issued a release last September advising people to be wary of social media investments scams. More>>
More than 250 million photos are uploaded each day on Facebook, according to the social network's media site. And in case you hadn't noticed, "sharing pictures is one of the most popular activities on Facebook." So, not surprisingly, Facebook etiquette about photos is a common complaint among users. More>>
Pinterest is the breakout social network of 2012, but even technology addicts could be excused for missing its rise to success. More>>
Poor Tim Tebow. The starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos set a a Twitter record in the beginning of January and it's already defeated — by the Super Bowl. More>>
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow was involved in the big game in Indianapolis, where he helped his team perform another miraculous comeback in the fourth quarter with time running out. More>>
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