PALO ALTO, Calif. - Facebook is trying to become a bit more like the real world. The company on Wednesday introduced a feature that allows users to interact with small groups of people, like their family, high school friends or ...

Apple plans to start manufacturing a Verizon-ready iPhone by the end of 2010, with the carrier offering the device in early 2011, says a Wall Street Journal report.

News Analysis: Verizon Wireless has released the details of its plans to introduce LTE to 38 cities and 60 airports in 2010. LTE officials also hinted at new wireless products.

Alan Boyle writes:This year's Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded for decades-old breakthroughs in the use of palladium to help synthesize useful compounds - a process that took the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 13 pages to explain.

A push of six Android smartphones, including the Android-running Droid Pro and Citrus, comes as Motorola prepares to spin off its handset business.

News Analysis: Microsoft is getting ready to launch Windows Phone 7. But the software has issues that the software giant will need to remedy sooner rather than later.

With Cisco's introduction of its Umi home TelePresence system on Wednesday, a vision that Chairman and CEO John Chambers has been talking about for years finally saw the light of day.

Motorola has sued Apple for patent infringement in the latest round of suits that involve mobile technology. Motorola Mobility sued Apple in three separate complaints; in district courts in Illinois and Florida and a separate complaint filed with the ...

Fresh data underscoring Android's remarkable growth seems to come in almost every day now. The latest research, from comScore, shows that the Google mobile platform's share of the mobile market leapt from 13% to 19.6% in ...

Sprint Nextel pushed falling Android smartphone prices even lower on Wednesday, introducing the LG Optimus S for US$49.99. The Optimus was one of three low-priced Android phones Sprint introduced on Wednesday, joining other ...

Update: The broadband stories I’m interested in right now are the ones about carriers pushing the technology forward. Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have all moved forward on broadband networks much ...

WASHINGTON - For three years, technology and telecommunications companies have watched nervously from the sidelines as the United States and nearly a dozen trading partners have negotiated a trade agreement that critics feared could undermine all sorts ...

Virus-infected computers that pose a risk to other PCs should be blocked from the net, a senior researcher at software giant Microsoft suggests.

A new Android smartphone from T-Mobile ships with hardware that thwarts jailbreakers by automatically restoring modified devices to their original factory state.

AP Photo Han Ziwen holds up his iPads while being carried out by store employees at the Apple flagship store in Beijing, China, Friday, Sept.

How the Vb.ly URL-shortening Web page looked before it was taken down because of alleged violations of Libyan law. What was once "the Internet's first and only sex-positive URL shortener" is no more, thanks to a conflict with ...

The invention, just one atom thick, paves way for ultrafast transistors, lighter airplanes, and more fuel-efficient cars. By Paul McDougall The Nobel Foundation has awarded one of its famed prizes to a pair of researchers who developed a carbon ...

It should come as no surprise that, in addition to a series of new multiplayer modes, the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops will also support 3D.

Samsung has sold five million Galaxy S phones since the line launched in June, the company announced Wednesday. Samsung sold two million Galaxy S devices in the US and one million in Korea.

This tube-nosed fruit bat is just one of the roughly 200 species encountered during two scientific expeditions to Papua New Guinea in 2009—including a katydid that "aims for the eyes" and a frog that does a mean cricket impression, ...