TECHNOLOGY

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into Google's proposed purchase of AdMob, , a company specializing in ads for small screens.

Apple Inc shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet computer.

The Northern American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is partnering with Google to track Santa, so all the world's good boys and girls can follow along online.

Shares of Apple Inc reached their all-time high on Thursday, as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet computer.

Memory chips for computers are likely to be in short supply by the second half of next year as consumers demand more capacity and companies embark on a delayed drive to replace PCs, industry tracker DRAMeXchange believes.

Paramount's worst fears are confirmed: Star Trek was the most pirated film of 2009, according to a new report.

Apple Inc has reserved space in late January at a venue in San Francisco in advance of a planned product announcement, the Financial Times reported on its blog on Wednesday.

Walt Disney Co nominated Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to its board on Wednesday, a move by the 86-year-old media company to tap into the younger, popular world of online social networks.

Apple Inc. has reportedly scheduled a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Tuesday Jan. 26, next year, for a major product announcement, according to media reports.

Apple Inc. has reportedly scheduled a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Tuesday Jan. 26, next year, for a major product announcement, according to media reports.

Barnes & Noble Inc said late Wednesday that all customers who preordered its Nook electronic reader, which was expected to miss Christmas delivery to customers

A man in the UK who escaped prison and is now updating his status message on Facebook, telling the world what his life as a fugitive.

Research In Motion said its BlackBerry's e-mail service in North America has been restored for some users Wednesday morning after its suffered its second outage in less than a week.

Research In Motion's Blackberry users in North America suffered another outage with their e-mail service, just a week after another outage hit the company. Late Tuesday night, RIM confirmed that its BlackBerry service had suffered its second e-mail outage in five days.

This Christmas, shoppers in Europe are discovering new uses for mobile phones as technology barriers that have prevented mass-market take-up are overcome, spurred on by Apple's iPhone.

Many U.S. consumers stayed away from malls and headed online to take care of their holiday shopping last weekend as a major snowstorm hit the East Coast, data released on Tuesday showed.

Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, has been ordered by a federal court to alter its popular Word software or stop selling the product after it lost its appeal of a $200 million patent-infringement verdict won by a Canadian company.

Italy dropped plans on Tuesday to black out Internet hate sites despite a pledge for radical measures after fan pages emerged on the Internet last week praising an attack on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Wireless provider Vodafone said Monday it will release the Apple iPhone on its network on January 14, officially becoming the latest UK phone network to offer the popular smartphone.

Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, has been ordered by a federal court to alter its popular Word software or stop selling the product after it lost its appeal of a $200 million patent-infringement verdict won by a Canadian company.

Apple's plan of offering television subscription via the Internet might receive a boost with U.S. media companies CBS and Walt Disney's probable participation in the venture, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

U.S. consumers headed online to take care of last-minute holiday shopping, with shoppers on the East Coast spurred by a snowstorm that kept many home from stores, analytics firm comScore Inc said on Tuesday.

A U.S. court of appeals on Tuesday upheld a $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft Corp for infringing a patent held by a small Canadian software firm, and affirmed an injunction that prevents Microsoft from selling versions of its Word program which contain the offending software.

The White House announced Tuesday that it has appointed former security adviser Howard Schmidt as its cyber tsar, following a seven month search. Schmidt is returning to the White House as President Obama's new cybersecurity coordinator, according to a letter posted on the White House Web site.

MTV's controversial new reality show, Jersey Shore, has lost its third ad sponsor - Dell Computers - which accused the show of ethnic bashing. The PC company told TMZ that it will block its commercials from running in future episodes of the show and claims that it doesn't condone or support ethnic bashing in any form.

Yahoo Inc. is having a mandatory world-wide shutdown of its offices for one week, between Dec. 25th and January 1, in a bid to cut costs, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Hewlett-Packard Co. denied claims that its webcams are racist after a YouTube video - which showed a black man and a white woman testing out HP's webcam face-tracking software and get different results - went viral.

China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a whitelist of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc plans to issue $100 gift certificates to people who won't receive its Nook electronic reader by December 24, if they had ordered it on time.