Posted: 9:31 AM Jimmy Buchheim is behaving oddly. On the floor of the world's largest cellphone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, he's looking at the screen of his iPod Touch, taking a few steps, and then looking again.
Updated: 11:32 AM "I was just, 'oh, he's cute, I'll accept him,'" a 22-year-old called "Nina" recalls. She was 18 at the time, and didn't imagine that clicking "accept" would start her on a path to four years of prostitution across the country.
Updated: 1:46 PM The College Station Independent School District will host a social media workshop for parents on Tuesday, March 5, at 6:30 p.m. in the CSISD boardroom (1812 Welsh).
Posted: 1:40 PM Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries promoting the teaching and learning of computer coding in schools.
Posted: 12:18 PM If you haven't looked at Pheed yet, now might be the time to do so. It's now the No. 1 free app in Apple's App Store under the Social Networking category. Yes, that means it's ranked higher than Facebook and Twitter. And it's been there since last week.
Posted: 2:59 PM Facebook has agreed to remove some so-called tribute pages related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting over concerns they're being used to exploit the tragedy, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
Updated: 9:24 AM Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival ".com" should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet oversight agency said Monday.
Posted: 10:16 AM High-tech leaders including the former heads of AOL and Mozilla are organizing a ‘‘virtual march for immigration reform’’ aimed at pressuring lawmakers to enact sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration laws.
Posted: 3:03 PM Huawei, a Chinese company that recently became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, calls its new flagship product "the fastest smartphone in the world" and wants to use it to expand global awareness of its brand.
Posted: 10:49 AM For the Sony Corporation, a tech industry also-ran, the moment of reckoning is here.
Posted: 10:01 AM When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn't have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets.
Updated: 3:19 PM Google is giving more people a chance to pay $1,500 for a pair of the Internet-connected glasses that the company is touting as the next breakthrough in mobile computing.
Posted: 2:11 PM A new study shows that when heavy Internet users go offline, they undergo withdrawal symptoms similar to those experienced by drug users.
Posted: 1:33 PM You can simply tune into the Oscars. Or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter.
Updated: 1:28 PM A 911 call comes in about a possible bomb in lower Manhattan and an alert pops up on computer screens at the New York Police Department, in a click, police know exactly what they're getting into.
Posted: 5:20 PM HTC Corp., the struggling Taiwanese maker of smartphones, is taking a page from longtime partner Microsoft Corp. as it launches a new phone under the One brand.
Posted: 5:01 PM You may not be a disease detective, but now you can play one at home.
Posted: 4:50 PM Someone hacked their way into Jeep's Twitter account on Tuesday, posting fake tweets about the brand being sold to Cadillac and that it was suspending factory production.
Posted: 11:01 AM More than 800,000 people are waiting to access a new iPhone app that aims to transform their email experience by helping them achieve the elusive "inbox zero" -- a fully processed and empty inbox.
Updated: 1:54 PM Burger King said Monday that it reached out to Twitter to suspend its account after an apparent hack.
Posted: 1:34 PM Welcome to the Internet. It's a big place, so let me show you around. You're approaching Oversharing Pass, where residents routinely post too much information.
Posted: 10:39 AM Singer Chubby Checker, 71, is in a twist over a software app that bears his name and is used to estimate the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size.
Posted: 9:21 PM Apple says it has lowered the price of its 13-inch MacBook Pro laptops by $200 and updated its processors. It also launched new models with faster processors and more memory.
Updated: 11:05 AM When it comes to romance, texting is often seen as a bare-minimum form of communication. It's fine for firming up Wednesday night dinner plans, but for expressing heartfelt sentiments? Not so much.
