The release of an easy-to-install method of getting third-party applications onto the iPhone prompted about 144,000 downloads of the software in three days.

  Winding one's way through the world's largest maize maze takes a map--and some sense of direction.

  Google has finally unveiled its social-networking strategy, and it's ambitious even for the seemingly unshakable tech company.

  The rapidly growing Taiwanese PC maker files a countersuit against Hewlett-Packard over patents on computers, servers, and peripheral devices.

  Radio, made out of a single carbon nanotube about 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, runs on batteries and requires headphones.

  Google starts public education campaign about its privacy practices on YouTube one day before FTC holds behavioral ad targeting event.

  A tear in a new solar array on the International Space Station forces NASA to reschedule plans for spacewalk.

  Intego Security issues warning about malware targeting Mac OS X users that disguises itself as a codec required to view a porn video.

  Google has finally unveiled its social-networking strategy, and it's ambitious even for the seemingly unshakable tech company.

  New book explores the trend in child intimidation via the Internet and cell phones. Can parents get even with cyberbullies? What are they already doing wrong?

  The project, which uses distributed computing to allow scientists to do research related to proteins and serious diseases, is called the world's most powerful such system.

  Last week Comet Holmes was just another icy rock orbiting the sun--until it suddenly brightened by a million times in a few hours.

  Why white boxes are losing their flavor, behind Verizon's decision to buddy up to Google, "War of the Worlds"redux?

  Commission adopts new rules that ban cable operators from locking apartment buildings into exclusive contracts in exchange for service.