Posted: 10:05 AM Apple Inc. has cut orders for LCD screens and other parts for the iPhone 5 this quarter due to weak demand, the Nikkei reported on Monday, in a further sign the U.S. firm is losing ground to Asian smartphone rivals.
Posted: 10:17 AM Some of the weirdest gadgets at the International CES show are designed to solve problems you never knew you had. Are you eating too fast? A digital fork will let you know. Is your toddler having trouble sitting still on the potty? Let the iPotty come to the rescue. Are you bored driving to work in a four-wheeled vehicle? Climb inside a 1,600-pound mechanical spider for your morning commute.
Posted: 9:53 AM Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Thursday it's up to North Korea to shed its self-imposed isolation and allow its citizens to use the Internet and connect with the outside world, or risk remaining way behind other countries.
Updated: 9:47 AM Apple Inc. AAPL -0.49% is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in corporate strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped.
Posted: 9:39 AM Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico, led a private delegation including Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, to North Korea on Monday, a controversial trip to a country that is among the most hostile to the Internet.
Posted: 9:32 AM China shut the website of a leading pro-reform magazine on Friday, apparently because it ran an article calling for political reform and constitutional government, sensitive topics for the ruling Communist Party which brooks no dissent.
Posted: 9:25 AM The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday handed Google a major victory by declaring, after an investigation of nearly two years, that the company had not violated antitrust or anticompetition statutes in the way it arranges its Web search results.
Posted: 10:31 AM Microsoft began the new year harping on a favorite theme: The software maker is arguing that government regulators need to crack down on Google to preserve fair competition in the Internet and smartphone markets.
Posted: 10:40 AM Some owners of iPhones might be harder to contact than usual today: a bug in the "Do Not Disturb" function on the new iPhone software has surfaced in 2013, and is not turning off when it is scheduled to - meaning that calls will be diverted to voicemail and the phone won't ring.
Updated: 2:04 PM Tumblr users made all kinds of magic in 2012, from immortalizing McKayla Maroney (over and over again) to exposing how elderly people use Facebook and everything in between.
Posted: 9:18 AM Maybe Mark Zuckerberg is busy out hunting for his own food. The company's No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, might be tied up putting the finishing touches on her soon-to-be-published memoir.
Posted: 12:39 PM Aiming to prevent companies from exploiting online information about children under 13, the Obama administration on Wednesday imposed sweeping changes in regulations designed to protect a young generation with easy access to the Internet.
Updated: 9:12 AM LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nintendo is switching on a television service that transforms the tablet-like controller of the new Wii U game console into a remote that changes the channel on your TV and puts programs from the Internet just a few finger taps away.
Posted: 3:36 PM Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service that Facebook bought this year, is the target of a storm of outrage on Twitter and other sites after a change in its user agreement hinted that it might use shared photosin ads.
Posted: 9:41 AM cellphone game for kids about U.S. geography, "Stack the States," gets rave reviews from parents. But with the Federal Trade Commission issuing more stringent online child privacy rules, Dan Russell-Pinson is not even pursuing the idea.
Posted: 10:13 AM Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish.
Updated: 10:22 AM LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Florida man is scheduled to be sentenced Monday for hacking into email accounts belonging to Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson.
Updated: 9:24 AM NEW YORK (AP) - TV viewing could soon sound a little calmer. The CALM Act, which limits the volume of TV commercials, goes into effect on Thursday.
Posted: 9:50 AM The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a record-breaking skydiver.