Brad Stone Nyt News Service

Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography. One recent sighting was a photo of two teenage boys gleefully pointing guns at another boy, who is crying. An ...

The combination of the biggest cellphone carrier in the United States and Apple's smash-hit phone would certainly be a powerful one. And it would be a major challenge to AT&T, which has been the exclusive carrier for the phone since its debut in 2007.But Verizon could decide that it does not actually need the iPhone, thanks to its deepening tie...

So it comes as no surprise that, after years of headlines and horror stories about predators, cyberbullies and other dangers to children online, a crop of subscription services has emerged to help parents monitor their child's activities on social networks.These start-ups aim to distinguish themselves from the older category of software products li...

Google plans to stop automatically sending users in mainland Chinese to its uncensored Hong Kong site, in an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in China.The action, experts on China say, amounts to a symbolic gesture that Google hopes will placate the Chinese government, which may be feeling pressure from citizens...

Independent bookstores were battered first by discount chains like Barnes & Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon.com. Now the electronic book age is dawning. With this latest challenge, these stores will soon have a new ally: the search giant Google.Later this summer, Google plans to introduce its long-awaited push into elect...

A price war is brewing in the growing market for electronic reading devices. Barnes & Noble, the national bookseller, announced Monday that it was dropping the price of its six-month-old Nook e-reader to $199 from $259 and introducing a new version of the device, which connects to the Internet only over Wi-Fi networks, for $149. Responding rapi...

The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations. The antitrust inquiry is in the early stages, these people say, and the conversations have revolved broadly around the dy...

Google recruited a solid lineup of high-tech companies on Thursday to help it introduce Google TV, a new service that merges the predictable world of television programming with the more chaotic expanse of the Web.Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, left, with executives from companies that are helping to bring Google TV to consumers.Now it ...

Early this year, the most popular YouTube video of all time -- a 2007 clip of a British toddler gleefully biting the finger of his older brother -- was supplanted by a brash newcomer. The upstart was Lady Gaga's slithering, sci-fi-themed music video for her hit single "Bad Romance." The shift was symbolic: YouTube, a subsidiary of the search giant ...

Apple, the maker of popular gadgets, is getting into the business of selling advertising, ratcheting up its rivalry with Google.

It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad.

Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is selling more ad spots to big companies like Wal-Mart Stores, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo.

Apple's chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine.

With the A4, Apple has taken another step toward challenging the norms of the mobile device industry.

Apple has generated a lot of chatter with its new iPad tablet. Many women are saying the name evokes awkward associations with feminine hygiene products.Two other high-tech companies already market products called iPad and are laying claim to the trademark.

Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography. One recent sighting was a photo of two teenage boys gleefully pointing guns at another boy, who is crying. An ...

The combination of the biggest cellphone carrier in the United States and Apple's smash-hit phone would certainly be a powerful one. And it would be a major challenge to AT&T, which has been the exclusive carrier for the phone since its debut in 2007.But Verizon could decide that it does not actually need the iPhone, thanks to its deepening tie...

So it comes as no surprise that, after years of headlines and horror stories about predators, cyberbullies and other dangers to children online, a crop of subscription services has emerged to help parents monitor their child's activities on social networks.These start-ups aim to distinguish themselves from the older category of software products li...

Google plans to stop automatically sending users in mainland Chinese to its uncensored Hong Kong site, in an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in China.The action, experts on China say, amounts to a symbolic gesture that Google hopes will placate the Chinese government, which may be feeling pressure from citizens...

Independent bookstores were battered first by discount chains like Barnes & Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon.com. Now the electronic book age is dawning. With this latest challenge, these stores will soon have a new ally: the search giant Google.Later this summer, Google plans to introduce its long-awaited push into elect...

A price war is brewing in the growing market for electronic reading devices. Barnes & Noble, the national bookseller, announced Monday that it was dropping the price of its six-month-old Nook e-reader to $199 from $259 and introducing a new version of the device, which connects to the Internet only over Wi-Fi networks, for $149. Responding rapi...

The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations. The antitrust inquiry is in the early stages, these people say, and the conversations have revolved broadly around the dy...

Google recruited a solid lineup of high-tech companies on Thursday to help it introduce Google TV, a new service that merges the predictable world of television programming with the more chaotic expanse of the Web.Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, left, with executives from companies that are helping to bring Google TV to consumers.Now it ...

Early this year, the most popular YouTube video of all time -- a 2007 clip of a British toddler gleefully biting the finger of his older brother -- was supplanted by a brash newcomer. The upstart was Lady Gaga's slithering, sci-fi-themed music video for her hit single "Bad Romance." The shift was symbolic: YouTube, a subsidiary of the search giant ...

Apple, the maker of popular gadgets, is getting into the business of selling advertising, ratcheting up its rivalry with Google.

It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad.

Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is selling more ad spots to big companies like Wal-Mart Stores, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo.

Apple's chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine.

With the A4, Apple has taken another step toward challenging the norms of the mobile device industry.

Apple has generated a lot of chatter with its new iPad tablet. Many women are saying the name evokes awkward associations with feminine hygiene products.Two other high-tech companies already market products called iPad and are laying claim to the trademark.