Google mulling download store, song locker service; talks with labels led by Android founder Rubin

Galaxy Tab to come with 7-inch screen, Android software, access to literature, music, films

Tech chief says governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored

Consumers have made the touch screen a must-have feature for gadgets

Governments have legitimate security concerns, telecom chief says

Says it will not match Hewlett-Packard’s offer

Fined and forced to write essay after writing ‘Gonna be fun to tell the defendant they're GUILTY’

‘This is a plan that is designed to sell iPads, iPods and iPhones,’ says one executive

Even Apple is now allowing gambling apps to be sold via the App Store

Anglican church to offer ‘grace for gadgets’ service as a way of staying relevant in high-tech times

Tune in, turn on to XM or Sirius

Move by satellite components maker follows earnings warning

As usual, they'll cost a little more for Canadians

CEO unveils new features, lower pricing on set-top box in bid to shake up business dominated by cable and satellite operators

Regulator’s order to share advanced networks and expand rural broadband service has Bell pushing back

A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time.

The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures.

Samsung has become the latest manufacturer to enter into the tablet computer market with its Galaxy Tab.

Apple launches a music-based social network called Ping as part of its latest upgrade to the iTunes music software.

US net users are being asked for their opinions about what ISPs should be allowed to do with web traffic flowing through their networks.

Dell withdraws its bid for 3Par after rival Hewlett-Packard raises its offer for the data storage company to $2.1bn.

Sony has unveiled its own music and video download service in an announcement timed to coincide with an Apple media event.

Mobile operator O2 and Apple are still resolving a months-old data roaming issue, with customers complaining of charges they didn't incur.

Mobile firm Orange becomes the first UK network to use a new technology that claims to offer higher quality voice calls.

The Advertising Standards Authority is given the power to regulate ads and marketing claims on websites and services like Facebook.

Sweden's director of public prosecutions orders the reopening of a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Following tough action against Blackberry, security forces in India turn their attention to Google and Skype.

The Royal Mail launches the world's first "intelligent" stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology.

A revamp of the social-news site Digg has unexpectedly backfired on its owners after members redirected traffic to a rival site.

The source code MacPaint is released but who can read it?

Nothing said online is really private, says Bill Thompson

Banning technology from classrooms is unlikely to solve any problems, thinks Bill Thompson.

How technology allows digital nomads to leave the office behind to work around the world

Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour.

Faster broadband networks could spell the end of the games console, experts say.

Parents blogging about their children have become a global force in marketing.

The portrayal of women in the game's industry is still lacklustre according to experts and insiders

How technology has ushered in a new era for aid work in disaster zones

Community labs are springing up for people who want to hack and test new ideas.

Photographers and film-makers capture their 3-D views of the corners of virtual worlds

Sales of Toyota Prius and other hybrid models fell in August.

New technologies are helping the nation catch up to Asia and Europe.

How proponents and opponents view the issues in the debate.

Planning for integration can make a world of difference.

What vendors will win in the SMB space?

What Apple's latest revisions means for the direction of the company.

The automaker has a goal to be zero-waste at half its worldwide plants by the end of the year.

What to look out for when children get a Facebook or other social media account.

The number of women who study science, technology, engineering and math is increasing.

Small law offices and solo attorneys tap software-as-a-service.

Consumer technologies are infiltrating the corporate world. Learn to leverage them.

Why GE, Cisco and others are looking beyond their firewalls for the next big idea.

EMC's Pat Gelsinger on the cloud computing models popular in the enterprise.

U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade.

Following the money in the social media ad boom.

Groupon, Zynga, Twitter, Asana and Ustream raised lots of money in hard times.

Problems include poor communication with users and lack of top-level buy in.

The Great Recession naturally led to big cuts in the amount of coal and oil being burned.

Will new legislation get the big box retailer to invest in electric car charging stations again?

International privacy laws are changing the way global companies do business.

A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted. The British Prime Minister's current media adviser is accused of having encouraged the hacking.

If it's September, it's football season — which also means it's time for millions of fantasy football drafts around the world to commence. Maximize your in-season points while dealing with the setbacks that are bound to occur by following our guide.

The video site's ever-evolving terms of service drive an observer mad in this arty clip by Carlo Zanni. No charge for the 1984 references.

This week’s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV’s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their programs for rent on Apple TV. The fact that Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder in, and on the board of, Disney — owner of ABC — perfectly illustrates this digital divide.

Unlike infectious disease and information, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it. "There has been a lot of theory about the difference between information and behavior spreading," said economic sociologist Damon Centola of MIT and author of the study published Sept. 3 in Science. "We've assumed that they are the same, but you can imagine that behavior is not really like that, that you need to be convinced."

A new batch of sharp Martian close-ups from NASA's HiRISE camera were released, and we've gathered some of the best in the gallery.

The atmosphere of a young exoplanet didn't fit any of our existing models for what gas giants should look like. But when astronomers added huge dust clouds, it was a perfect fit, perhaps revealing a larger truth about gas giants.

Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa.

Development Seed is engineering tools to create custom maps that work in a wider variety of situations such as natural disasters and in the developing world.

A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution's existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life's preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths.

The official Twitter app for iPad is finally here, and star developer Loren Brichter has polished yet another gem. Twitter for iPad sports a really elegant interface that's significantly faster and more intuitive than competing Twitter clients we've tested (such as Twitterific and Tweetdeck).

Fujitsu's scanner is your new (albeit bulky) buddy if you want high-quality images. The sturdy document feeder gets pages in straight, so you get them out right.

Google is celebrating the second birthday of its Chrome web browser with the release of Chrome 6. Among the new features are an updated user interface, auto-fill for web forms, extension syncing, increased speed and numerous bug fixes.

People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry. Cable boxes blow, but that's a losing battle. So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just created a new set top box. He's actually created a whole new media ecosystem built around the mobile phone.

It looks like a motorcycle, it performs like a Lotus and it's racing around the world.

String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics: quantum entanglement.

Chemical analysis of the bones of an ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2,000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis — likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet to support that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.

Samsung has announced the launch of a tablet that could become the first major Android-powered challenger to the Apple iPad.

The uncharacteristically snowy weather that hit Northern Europe and North America in the winter of 2009 to 2010 was caused by a rare combination of two separate weather oscillations in the Atlantic and Pacific, claim meteorologists.

Superman is a surly noob searching for reality in the digital age in J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis' update of the superhero's origin story. Who knew the Man of Steel would miss the musty Daily Planet more than the rest of us?

Two psychiatric experts think the way to treat troops returning home with PTSD: Have them undergo intensive psychotherapy while they're rolling on ecstasy.

Six weeks after landing men on the moon, Americans take another giant leap for mankind with the nation’s first cash-spewing, automated teller machine.

Video calls aren't for people to see you — they're for people to see what you see.

Blazing fast (four minutes and nine seconds!), streamlined and full of highlights, Cuisinart's PerfecTemp puts its kettle competition to shame.

A Q&A with Jeff Ma, the former leader of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team that took Vegas for millions in the mid-'90s. Now a successful entrepreneur and author, Ma talks about his love of fantasy sports, selling his company Citizen Sports to Yahoo (and why he didn't join them), and how young statgeeks can make their way in a sports industry dominated by traditionalists.

YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year, on revenue of about $450 million, with help from its onetime critics.

Hewlett-Packard offered about $2.3 billion, ending an 18-day bidding war. The price reflects a growing urgency to use acquisitions to fuel growth.

The publisher of the Grand Theft Auto video games raised its outlook on the strength of its newest release, Red Dead Redemption.

Apple's entry into social media has created bumps in its relationship with Facebook.

People are increasingly watching YouTube videos on cellphone screens, which could lead to new kinds of videos and advertising.

A consumer watchdog group began an advertising campaign aimed at Google and its chief executive. It hopes to create a "Do Not Track Me" list for Web users.

Ideos from Huawei marks the first time a Chinese company has designed and marketed a smartphone specifically for the global market.

Apple on Wednesday introduced a social media service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, revamped its lineup of iPods and unveiled an upgraded version of its set-top box.

The book business tries to serve two readers, the one who loves the tactile page and the one who loves the digital ease.

Dell on Thursday withdrew from the bidding for 3Par, which agreed to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $33 per share.

The F.C.C.’s decision to seek more comments on preserving an open and competitive Internet precludes any agency action before the midterm elections.

The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.

Swedish authorities said they reopened an investigation of rape allegations against Julian Assange.

The government is looking to curb cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.

Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures.

A simpler alternative to transistors, the memristor, will allow for more computer memory in even smaller devices.

Mike Wise said in his Twitter account that a Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback was suspended for five games.

The Deseret News has laid out an ambitious plan to enhance its digital coverage and begin using a collection of freelance contributors to supplement its news report.

Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.

Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers.

Can a week of silent meditation make it easier to resist the emotional pull of the digital world?

While none of the iPad cases are perfect, the variety is endless; one even has a 100-year warranty.

Two apps, Cardstar and Key Ring, serve as repositories for your loyalty shopping card numbers. You just hand your phone to the cashier at checkout.

A new Windows PC comes covered with advertising stickers even though computer companies are trying to make their laptops beautiful. David Pogue thinks they ought to stop.

Step into the dark and dangerous world of organized crime in the 1940s and '50s with 2K Games' Mafia II, the sequel to the award-winning and ...

Dell is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard for data-storage maker 3Par.

Computers are a big part of our daily lives. But as software and hardware improves, the old annoyances seem to remain. You encounter error messages. ...

If your family enjoys playing the board game Clue, they will love Guilty Party, the new whodunit from Disney Interactive. Instead of gathering ...

Some quick thoughts about the new and freshened Apple products: iPod Touch, Nano, Apple TV and iTunes' Ping.

New, smaller and lighter Kindles have better battery lives, superior glare-free displays and enough storage for up to 3,500 books.

India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion ...

Samsung is planning to launch its first tablet featuring Google's Android operating system in the U.S. in the coming months, the company announced ...

Familiar, and even old, names from the media/tech world dominate Vanity Fair's latest annual ranking of the top 100 members of what it calls ...

Like the new Kindles, the latest Sony Readers are lighter, smaller, and offer sharper print contrast than did previous models.

Social-network giant Facebook is getting into the gift card business with Facebook Credits cards sold through Target.

An unmanned drone aicraft-aaknown as the Global Hawk-aais scheduled to fly directly into 135-mph Hurricane Earl tonight to help unlock some of ...

Gravitational tugs sparkstar eruptions in a nearby galaxy, astronomers report Wednesday.

Some bacteria, the most antibiotic-resistance ones, sacrifice themselves so that their fellow bacteria have a better chance at survival.

Remember Samus of 'Metroid,' Kirby and Donkey Kong?

Earl Heads Uncomfortably Close to Area Relatively Few Hurricanes Tend to Go

A beach town near Tokyo offers Nintendo DS' "Love Plus" users everything they need to bring their digital romance to the real world. The video game fosters relationships between young men and virtual girlfriends.

CBSNews.com's Shira Lazar spoke to Chris Juby of Durham, England who, on August 8, 2010, began tweeting the entire Bible under the Twitter handle @biblesummary.

Verizon To Sell Smart Phones For Prepaid Service, Long the Domain of Low-End Phones

Researchers Seek Feedback from Technology Fair Visitors to Help Make Honda's Battery-Operated Robot More Communicative

With Trial Still Going On, Woman Posts Update Saying that Finding Defendant Guilty will be "Fun"

From Social Media's Impact on Kids to Overuse of Cell Phones, Even the Tech-Savvy Will Learn from Our "Early Show" Experts!

Harry Smith gets answers to viewers questions about digital overload from Dr. Jennifer Hartstein, Dr. Jennifer Ashton and lawyer, Jack Ford.

UN Telecom Chief Says BlackBerry Manufacturer Should Compromise On Data-sharing

After Appearing to Accept Possibility of a Creator, Physicist Now Says "It Is Not Necessary to Invoke God"

India Widens Security Crackdown, Providers Like Google And Skype Must Set Up India Server

The nation's largest video game conference, known as E3, shows off the latest innovations in gaming technology. E3 is closed to the public, but CNET's Natali del Conte and Gamespot's Brian Ekberg have your backstage pass.

The FDA will decide the fate of the controversial diet pill Meridia. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on a critical editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine that is calling for it to be pulled from the market.

Hurricane Earl caused at least $150 million in damage from the Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico and could hit the East Coast next. Kelly Cobiella reports on preparations from New York to North Carolina.

In an effort to compete with Skype, the team behind Google has unveiled a new service which allows Gmail users to make free phone calls. CNET's Molly Wood reports.

Federal Communications Commission Rejects Proposal For Free Wireless Broadband Service

Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains how Apple TV improves on the company's old model by being a quarter of the size and less expensive.

Steve Jobs Debuts New Versions of Internet TV, iPods, as Apple Retools for Push into Digital Living Room

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces in a media event that new software will allow iPhone users to take sharper images. Jobs also previews the next iOS release, version 4.2.

Device Will Be Smaller Version of Apple TV for Streaming Movies and TV Shows over Internet and into Living Room

Harry Smith spoke with The Center for Internet Behavior's Dave Greenfield about getting hooked on texting.

Gov't Says New Imagery Shows 48% Drop in Destruction of Forest, but Environmental Groups Say Lull is Temporary Due to Economy

Excessive Texting Can Become Obession; Could Lead to Lack of Eating, Isolation and Sleep Deprivation

Sony, Betting On Love For Swiping Screens, Adds Touch To Cheapest E-Reader And Raises Price

The Next Big Bout of Solar Activity is Slated for 2013, Just as Galileo's First Operational Satellites Are In Orbit