RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes....

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. said Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from the internet search leader's board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker Apple Inc....

Marchex applies proprietary local search technology to help solve the challenge of understanding, monitoring and improving online presence for cost-conscious companies. - Local search and performance advertising company Marchex, Inc. announced the launch of the beta version of Reputation Management, an online marketing product aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The product is an extension of the companys Marchex Connect platform, whic...

T-Mobile said on Monday that some of the data that its customers using Sidekick phones lost as a result of the failure of a Microsoft computer system might be recoverable.

The Federal Trade commission is no longer pursuing its inquiry into the two companies' connections.

Global sales of PCs, a big driver of operating system sales, are expected to fall by 1 percent this year.

The high-speed service, which the airline plans to make widely available in 2010, will allow laptops and mobile devices to reach the Web during flights.

89% of 200 non-profits surveyed rely on social networking to raise money. Here's how one woman reached out to save her sister's ...

In the last 15 years that we've all been pummeling our keyboards with web addresses, the sight of http:// has turned into something we either love or hate. But it could have all been so different - web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says that in hindsight he would have skipped the double slash, according to the New York Times.Why? "Look at all the paper and trees, he said, that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years - not to mention the human labor and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes."Seems a fair point, though there are plenty of other programming conventions that could have been dropped as well.But Timbl also missed out on one other area that dropping bits of that prefix would have done for the general public: just imagine if we had all been saved from the pain of listening to TV and radio presenters reading out seventeen syllables that they clearly did not comprehend

HELSINKI (Reuters) - French company Viadeo, which runs a social networking website aimed at professionals, has acquired Canadian peer Unyk, to become the second-largest firm globally after LinkedIn.