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JPMorgan Chase & Co. will lay off 9,200 WaMu employees nationally, out of the company’s total work force of about 42,000. (JPM)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web makes children more prone to a range of health problems including obesity and smoking, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.

10 GbE makes large strides but the technology still has a few years to go until it leads the Ethernet segment.

HP still rules, Sun is making money again and mainframe sales keep on chugging.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is seeking as much as $30 billion from investors to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, boosting shares of the Web search engine by 7 percent.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is likely to consider a plan this month to auction public airwaves with a mandate that the winning bidder set aside some for free Internet nationwide, a proposal staunchly opposed by the cell phone industry.

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatian police have detained and questioned Web activists who are criticizing or ridiculing the government, media and the opposition say, accusing authorities of violating basic civil rights.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

Deep-pocketed technology giants such as Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. plan to continue snapping up companies during the economic downturn, likely benefiting from an ability to drive a hard bargain with even red-hot startups, according to executives speaking at a venture capital conference Tuesday.