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Apple is inviting "some of Silicon Valley's biggest names" to a memorial service for Steve Jobs Sunday evening, according to a report.
The to download a mobile operating system upgrade didn't break the Internet Wednesday, but certainly tested it, with some Internet service providers saying they'd never seen anything like it.
Many users Wednesday eagerly tried to download iOS 5, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, and found themselves unable to do so, getting annoying error messages, not being able to complete the upgrade for other reasons, or worse — being told during the upgrade process that their devices could not be restored.
You might call Cadillac's new CUE suite of infotainment, navigation and communication programs a jumbo smartphone or tablet, one that is there in the vehicle as needed, but can definitely get out of the way if you don't want it around.
Steve Jobs will be remembered as a titan of business, of course. But for those of us who struggled decades ago to learn lines of code in order to create something as elementary as a letter on a computer, Jobs will forever be associated with making modern computing simple, seamless and satisfying.
Google's Android operating system is the top operating system in the U.S. smartphone market, but Apple is the top manufacturer of smartphones, according to a new report from Nielsen.
More than 420 million smartphones will be sold worldwide this year, and will account for 28 percent of all cellphone sales, IMS Research says.
Giving you yet another reason (Amazon.com hopes) to buy its Kindle e-reader, the company Monday announced its Kindle Textbook rental program for students.
A teen whose "sweet 16" turned quite sour when the Facebook invite to her party resulted in 1,600 strangers showing up at her house says she feels "terrible" about what happened, and now is reluctant "to go outside because I feel so ashamed and worried."
Apple's iPhones and Google's Android phones send back data about the locations of the users to the technology companies, the Wall Street Journal reported. And at least two members of Congress are pushing for more information about why it's happening.
Charlie Sheen's everywhere this week, but the one place you don't want him is in your computer. Cyber criminals and mischief-makers, realizing the actor is getting lots of online clicks as he's featured on websites, videos and even on Twitter and , may try to lure you to click on a search engine website link that could prove to be dangerous."Knowing that millions of people are searching for Charlie Sheen’s most recent video rampage, the bad guys are using the search term 'Charlie Sheen' to game the search results through search engine optimization poisoning," said a spokesman for , a software security firm.
Their voices may not be the ones heard on the streets of Egypt, but what they're saying is coming through loud and clear over the Internet, via websites, blogs and social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter.
A longtime Charlotte, N.C., told a local television station that she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down.
Shoppers looking for holiday bargains are already scouring the Web as well as incoming e-mails and text messages for deals — and cyber criminals are quite busy, too, hoping to lure you in with a deal that seems too good to be true.
Having a hard time deciding between a netbook and a tablet? Dell hopes to make the choice easier by giving you a two-fer: its new Inspiron Duo is both, a hybrid with a 10-inch touch screen. The Duo may be unveiled next week; no pricing has been announced yet.
Carolyn Morrison home-schooled her two children from 1993 to 2004 — and the tools she had available to her then seem primitive today.
Does the "F" in Facebook stand for an "F" in school? A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students who don't have the social networking site in visual range, or even running in the background on their computers or mobile phones.
James J. Lee, the suspected gunman who held three hostages for hours at the Discovery Communications building in Maryland on Wednesday, apparently had a long history of contempt for the company, which includes the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel and Planet Green networks.
What — Brad Pitt makes the list, but not Robert Pattinson? And Cameron Diaz rules it, but there's no Kristen Stewart anywhere to be found? The "list" is McAfee's fourth annual compilation of the "Most dangerous celebrities to search for" on the Internet.
Location, location, location — it's crucial to real estate, and increasingly, to social networking websites. Facebook, the giant among such sites, may roll out its own location-based features that would give it the kind of "check in" chops of Foursquare.
Oh, to have a "dislike" button on Facebook, to be able to tell your friends what you really think of their movie reviews or their complaints about the job when you know you work much harder than they do.
Samsung may launch a 7-inch Android tablet based on its new Galaxy S line of phones, early next month at a consumer electronics show in Berlin in early September.
North Korea is now on Twitter — yes, North Korea, with one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.
Apple has released a security patch to block hackers from gaining access to any iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad running the latest versions of their mobile operating system. That's the good news. The bad: Users who have jailbroken their devices, hacking them in a legal but warranty-busting move to run unauthorized apps, will lose access to the unauthorized content.
A Trojan horse planted by criminals was used to steal more than $1 million from the accounts of British customers of the same online bank since last month, according to an international digital security company, and the cyber attack is still underway.
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