A former Motorola software engineer was found guilty of stealing trade secrets from the company, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.

Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings,

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said Chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors are stepping down, in yet another major shake-up at the internet giant.

Google on Tuesday launched a beta version of its desktop web browser Chrome for Android handhelds, bringing popular features from the desktop version to

Master storyteller Charles Dickens' influence on culture lives on about 142 years after his death as Google and others celebrate what would have been his 200th

You might have gone through the motions of deleting embarrassing Facebook photos months ago, but chances are they’re still lingering out there.

Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.

Online retailer Amazon is planning on opening a store in the Seattle area later this year, industry website GoodEReader.com reported Monday.

Facebook, Twitter and email could be more addicting than alcohol or smoking, a new study suggests.

Sony Electronics, the US arm of the Japanese consumer products company, has cut around 100 workers from its ranks over the past several weeks, AllThingsDigital

Microsoft Corp. has pulled one of five patents used last year to sue Barnes & Noble Inc. for alleged infringement related to the book retailer's use of Google

Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the

A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the hacking group Anonymous, it claimed Friday.

For all the huge numbers in Facebook's IPO papers, a surprisingly small figure stands out: $4.39, the amount the site generated per user last year.

AOL and the Huffington Post are launching a live video network that aims to combine broadcast news with social media.

With the Super Bowl days away, federal authorities announced a crackdown Thursday on websites that stream unauthorized broadcasts of sports events just hours

The new economics of entertainment have enabled a foul-mouthed performer working on his own to carve out a very lucrative business. He doesn't have the backing

Facebook Inc.'s impending initial public offering will likely net its 27-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg a fortune of $28 billion.

Facebook the website is all about grabbing someone's attention. So it's safe to assume that Facebook the company has taken great care in choosing a ticker

Microsoft Corp. laid off roughly 200 employees Wednesday as the software giant restructured its marketing operations in an effort to streamline job

When federal investigators decided to look into whether Google Inc. was letting rogue pharmacies from overseas target American consumers with advertising, they

Facebook Inc. on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering that could value the company at between $75 billion to $100 billion, putting the eight-year-old

Social-networking giant Facebook Inc. is preparing to file preliminary paperwork for a $5-billion initial public offering Wednesday morning, although that

Amazon.com reported a sharp decline in earnings for the fourth quarter, as the company continued to spend heavily on its infrastructure and new products such

Changes that Google Inc. made to its privacy policy last week bring it more in line with rivals Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Inc. and Apple Inc., the company said

Ready for an out-of-this-world Facebook experience? A new game promises to deliver has just taken off.

Federal prosecutors are warning users of the now-defunct Megaupload.com website that private server companies could begin deleting files once stored by the

Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool.

Federal law-enforcement officials say they are concerned about cyber-retaliation against agents and prosecutors, in light of suspicions that people linked to

Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane?

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. has filed its latest patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc., this time targeting the most recent version of the iPhone

Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon are weighing a move to beef up the retailer's video-streaming service -- possibly carving it out as a standalone,

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) said Friday he would remove a controversial provision from the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) until further study takes place. 

Twenty startup technology companies formally unveiled their ideas at the third annual Startup Debut Sunday night at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas – each

Various technology websites including TechCrunch and CNET are reporting a data outage for some Verizon Wireless customers.  Based on questions and responses

If you’re going to label Siri, Apple’s iPhone 4S voice assistant, as pro-life, then you’ll have to call her an ethnocentric racist too.

More than 100 million smartphones track their owners' every move thanks to software preinstalled on devices from most major carriers, according to an Android

Amazon is looking to take on Apple's iPhone 4S Siri virtual assistant with the purchase of a company called Yap, according to All Things Digital.

Los Angeles County sheriffs will have a high tech eye in the sky to prevent crime in the city of Lancaster by next year. The city council agreed to fund the

Wind farms are supposed to produce the energy of tomorrow, but evidence indicates their countless whirring fan blades produce something else: "blank spots"

Browse through Apple's iTunes and you'll find thousands of free game apps geared towards young children. They're all fun and games until you get the bill. Many

Apple's Siri virtual assistant apparently experienced an extended outage on Thursday.

Trolls are creeps who lurk in Internet chat rooms and on websites, randomly hijacking them and posting nasty comments. Some of them are taking "mean" to a

Whether you want to admit it or not, there are people looking to victimize children in all sorts of ways online. FOX 11 Tech Ninja Tshaka Armstrong has

A German research satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, but scientists said Saturday they still cannot predict where it will land.

A paraplegic woman is walking again thanks to a wearable "bionic" robot. Check out the video.

An iPad 2 security flaw is making news today. According to 9to5 Mac, anyone with a Smart Cover can break into your "password-protected" iPad 2.

The California Science Center became the official owner of the space shuttle Endeavour today at a title-transfer signing ceremony attended by the astronauts

Pieces of NASA's 20-year-old Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, are believed to have landed on earth early Saturday morning ET, the US space agency

NASA says the defunct UARS satellite fell to Earth overnight. The agency posted on its official Twitter site that the spacecraft crashed through the atmosphere

Motorola's Droid Bionic launched on Verizon's 4G LTE network recently, and many around the web are calling it the fastest phone currently on Big Red. We put it

The prime suspect behind the demise of the dinosaurs was off the hook Monday, after NASA revealed the family of asteroids commonly blamed for the extinction

Apple Inc. has removed an app from its French App Store that let users consult a database of celebrities to determine if they are Jewish or not. The action

Some hackers are not after credit cards or classified government documents. They want high-profile Hollywood Twitter accounts, blockbuster scripts, and nude

Internet and telephone service for thousands of Southern California homes and businesses went out for more than six hours today, as one of the largest Internet

The magnitude-5.8 earthquake that rattled the East Coast today is an unusual occurrence, but the area has had its share of quakes in the past, seismologists at

Wind power is the fastest growing component in California's green energy portfolio, but wildlife advocates say it has an unintended consequence: dead birds,

Stan Stahl is the President of Citadel Information Group, an information security management company. He's an expert on the ways and motivations of hackers. Here's what he had to

Worried about avoiding the so-called Carmageddon when the 405 is shut down for a weekend next month? Don't panic! There just might be an app for that.

The U.S. government said Saturday that U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp. was hit by an unspecified cyber incident, according to Reuters.

The California Senate has rejected a bill designed to increase privacy on social networking sites, amid objections from some of industry's biggest players.

Deadly tornadoes and other disasters often leave many victims isolated, unable to reach families and friends. Scott Tatum was stuck on a Mississippi road when a killer twister

The new generation of the "Parker" app for iOS and Android devices now allows users in a congested area of Studio City to find open parking spaces in real

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, less than two and a half years after breaking from the other

The space shuttle Endeavour, which was built in Palmdale to replace the destroyed Challenger shuttle, will be placed on display at the California Science

The study of how hummingbirds fly is making big contributions to all kinds of projects... even in the military. Take a look inside the Hummingbird Lab at UC

Two US astronauts on Monday wrapped up the first spacewalk of the Discovery shuttle mission at the International Space Station after a robotic arm breakdown

Criminals can now steal your credit card information without ever laying hand on your purse or wallet. The crime is known as “electronic pickpocketing” and it’s made possible by a

President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a plan to boost broadband wireless coverage across the US and create a nationwide, interoperable wireless network

The Verizon iPhone appears to suffer from antenna problems similar to those of the AT&T iPhone, according to a Wednesday report on Apple-centric blog ILounge.

A woodpecker's head may be the secret to manufacturing better shock absorbers, an advancement with benefits to people and technology.

Apple has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

A new video game that is due on store shelves on February 22 is already stirring controversy for being violent, profane, gruesome and filled with sexual

NASA scientists revealed Wednesday, in a much-anticipated announcement, that its Kepler telescope has found more than 50 Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like

Egyptians armed with low-tech electronic gadgets like dial-up modems, landlines and old-school satellite phones are finding ways to get their message out, despite efforts by the

Twenty-five years ago, as classrooms tuned in to watch the first teacher head into space, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after lift off.

Astronomers seeking new worlds capable of supporting life will next week unveil data on hundreds of possible planets circling other stars, quickening the pace

Archaeologists working in the Arabian peninsula are redrawing the road map of the first human migrations out of Africa, offering new evidence that roaming

In the battle of man vs. machine, chalk one up for the robots.

Forget the mile-high club. Who's joined the 21-mile high club?

NASA has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of Earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system, but its scorching temperatures are too

The much-anticipated deluge of new tablets began Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with Panasonic introducing a new device that

Inspections of the space shuttle Discovery’s fuel tank revealed several small cracks on a number of support beams, NASA confirmed Thursday.

The discovery of a genetic mutation that can contribute to impulsive and motiveless violence, especially among men under the influence of alcohol, was making

The existence of a human relative that roamed widely across Asia, has been confirmed by researchers through DNA analysis of 40,000-year-old bone fragments

A Russian Soyuz space rocket carrying three astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, Russia's mission control said.

Scientists have discovered the oldest reported raptor-like dinosaur in eastern Utah.

Iran's nuclear program is still in chaos despite its leaders' adamant claim that they have contained the computer worm that attacked their facilities, cybersecurity experts in the

Google demonstrated Tuesday its first laptops running on the company's coming Chrome operating system, a move by the internet giant to challenge Microsoft's

Scientists have developed a way to make plants glow, which could replace electric street lights with biologically powered light 24 hours a day.

Pushing life to extremes, researchers reported Thursday that they have discovered microbes able to subsist almost entirely on arsenic, which "very likely"

Research conducted by biochemist Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon from the U.S. Geological Survey has turned the quest for alien life on its ear, suggesting that phosphorous -- which is

The nature versus nurture debate just took an unexpected turn -- thanks to pollution. Increased exposure to the toxic chemical mercury can lead to homosexuality in birds, a new

Following a growing outcry, Amazon has severed its ties with controversial website WikiLeaks, the organization that just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department

Despite outcry over the controversial information, Amazon.com's servers are still hosting leaked documents from WikiLeaks that government officials call a threat to national

Federal authorities said Monday they seized 82 internet websites allegedly used to distribute counterfeit products as part of a crackdown on the sale of

Hoping to finally launch thefaceslap.com? Sorry, Charlie: Facebook could soon own the rights to the word "face."

Some members of Congress, concerned about shoddy cybersecurity at government and critical technology websites, are proposing that the Department of Homeland Security should have