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Verizon Wireless said last night that a number of its employees have "accessed and viewed" President-elect Barack Obama's personal cellphone account without authorization.

Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs answers your questions about the latest computer security threats and offers ways to protect your personal information.

Staff Sgt. Brian Schar got behind the wheel of a white Chevy Colorado yesterday and went for a spin. The vehicle remained snugly parked in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington, despite the large screens in front of the truck, which showed a street-level view of...

Buying any sort of high-tech product involves risks not faced with most other purchases. The sweater you get for yourself probably won't cost dramatically less next year or be replaced in stores by a vastly upgraded Sweater 3.0, but your new laptop, camera or phone can become overpriced or obsolete...

The day after Yahoo announced the imminent departure of chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang, the stock market applauded.

Wal-Mart has signed a contract to help power hundreds of its stores using wind energy, one of the largest investments in the field by a U.S. retailer.

At about 4:30 p.m. Eastern time last Tuesday, the volume of junk e-mail arriving at inboxes around the world suddenly plummeted by about 65 percent. Confronted with information that one Silicon Valley computer firm was hosting organizations that controlled the distribution of much of the world's ...

The new phones from Google and Blackberry have more than just a little in common with the iPhone, says Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo. Manjoo and Big Money blogger Chris Thompson take your questions about what features the companies have borrowed from Apple.

Wall Street broke a two-day losing streak yesterday despite poor housing and economic data that reinforced concerns of a long recession.

Tesla Motors didn't just set out to build an electric car. It set out to teach Detroit a lesson. Back in 2003, when these guys from Silicon Valley were launching their company, they didn't apologize for knowing next to nothing about the automotive industry. In fact, they took pride in this. They ...

Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang will step down, the company announced last night, as the once-highflying Internet portal struggles to steady itself in the turbulent environment for Web media.

Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, is skilled at getting attention in the basketball arena, but it was his trading in a Canadian Internet start-up that has gotten the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission.