The man behind the massively popular video game franchise is working hard to turn Nintendo Co.'s brand of handheld consoles into educational aids and teaching tools.

Yelp is being sued by several small businesses that claim they've been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed.

Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.

A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.

A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential information.

After launching its redesigned search site last June, the company waged a major marketing campaign to position Bing as better than Google or No. 2 Yahoo for shopping, booking travel and searching for medical information.

Google Inc. has upgraded its Nexus One phone so it works on the same high-speed wireless network as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, putting the increasingly antagonistic rivals on an even more direct collision course in the mobile market.

Unveiled at last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony's forthcoming wand-shaped motion controller and the smaller sub-controller handle similarly to Nintendo's Wii Remote and Nunchuck.

Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away.

Twitter is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up to the social networking site in their own language, a co-founder of the site said Monday night, but access to the popular site remains blocked in the country.

U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information.

A Twitter executive says the site is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up in their own language, though the Web site remains blocked there.

As it does with the iPhone, Apple says it will give people whose iPads have a "diminished ability to hold an electrical charge" an entire new unit.