Posted: 3:09 PM Apple has bought WiFiSLAM, a startup that has been developing a way to use WiFi hotspots to help smartphones navigate large indoor spaces, like stores, airports and conference centers.

Posted: 11:32 AM T-Mobile USA, the struggling No. 4 cellphone company, is ditching plans centered on familiar two-year contracts in favor of selling phones on installment plans.

Updated: 1:50 PM A female technology developer has been fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a Silicon Valley technology conference.

Posted: 9:58 AM BlackBerry is launching its latest smartphone — the Z10 — on Friday in a make-or-break effort to regain some of the ground it has lost to Apple's iPhone and an army of Android devices.

Posted: 9:38 AM Ka-ching! The cash register may be on its final sale.

Posted: 5:08 PM The chief executive of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion says Apple's iPhone is outdated.

Posted: 1:49 PM One of the Vatican's main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the headline "Holy Switcheroo!" - raising concerns they might have been hacked.

Posted: 11:06 AM Texas A&M dominates the SEC when it comes to social media, taking top overall honors for it’s use of Twitter.

Posted: 10:43 AM Google Inc's YouTube said 1 billion unique users were now visiting the video-sharing website every month, or nearly one out of every two people on the Internet.

Posted: 9:54 AM Will the allure of a $5 million reward be the downfall of a tweeting, rapping American jihadi who once fought alongside the Somali militant group al-Shabab but now denounces their methods and motivations in online feuds?

Posted: 5:18 PM Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is expanding a test of a new checkout program that allows shoppers to scan items with their smartphones while they're in the aisles and then pay at self-checkout terminals.

Posted: 11:50 AM The Russian website where hackers had published the stolen credit reports for Michelle Obama, the attorney general, CIA director, FBI director and other politicians and celebrities has mysteriously disappeared. It's been inaccessible since late Tuesday.

Posted: 1:38 PM A Florida investment adviser has been charged in New York in an $8 million securities fraud scheme that capitalized on enthusiasm for Facebook Inc. shares.

Posted: 12:01 PM The Obama administration says it supports rewriting a 26-year-old law that lets law enforcement read a person's emails without a search warrant if those emails are at least 6 months old.

Updated: 10:46 AM There may be another billionaire interested in New York City's top job.

Posted: 9:43 AM Lenovo has pulled the wraps off its latest ultrabook computer promising a design that is thinner and lighter than its previous ultrabook offerings.

Posted: 2:32 PM News agency Reuters has suspended with pay a deputy social media editor after he was indicted on federal charges of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.

Updated: 9:39 AM Samsung Electronics is ratcheting up its rivalry with Apple with its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone, which has a larger, sharper screen than its predecessor, the best-selling S III.

Posted: 9:25 AM A deputy social media editor for Reuters vowed that Friday would be "business as usual" despite charges of conspiring with the notorious hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.

Posted: 2:35 PM CBS Corp. launched an app for iPhones and iPads that allows viewers to watch full episodes of prime-time TV shows like "NCIS," ''Survivor" and "The Good Wife" on the eighth day after their debut on air.

Updated: 1:29 PM A man who told a TV newsroom that he had killed his wife and asked the station to post that message on Facebook was arrested Thursday after a high-speed chase, authorities said.

Posted: 1:46 PM When Abbey Donohoe and Paula O'Brien met at a party four years ago, a few people mentioned that they looked alike. Little did the Iowa women know that's because they're related.

Updated: 1:36 PM About 37 percent of Americans ages 12 to 17 tap the Internet using a smartphone, up sharply in just a year, according to a 2012 Pew survey released on Wednesday.

Posted: 11:23 AM It was a long time coming: Netflix users in the U.S. can now reveal their viewing habits and tastes to their Facebook friends.

Updated: 3:14 PM There's a ban at The Vatican on social media use and cellphone signal jammers are strategically installed, but there are still plenty of ways to help the rest of us keep track of the process.