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A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the RIAA $27,750 – 750 a track – for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas federal judge who had ordered defendant Whitney Harper to pay $7,400 – or $200 per song...

Software glitches may be behind sudden acceleration and braking failures in Toyota vehicles. It's ironic that Toyota, the leader in building quality automobiles, may have become the poster child for poor software quality. It probably won't be the last auto manufacturer to suffer this fate.

When it comes to Twitter time is your city or state holding it's own?

Striving for an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown pushed ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in a U.S. Senate election that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his first year.

Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: a stranger's account with full access to troves of private information.

According to Akamai’s Q3 State of the Internet report, the United States’ internet speed did not qualify for a place in the top ten list of countries with the fastest internet in the world, and its average overall speed has actually decreased by 2.4% year-over-year from 2008 to 2009.

Looking at data from the third quarter of 2009, content delivery network Akamai just announced that the average broadband speed in the U.S. declined by 2.4% in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter in 2008.

Will we see more than just a tablet at Apples upcoming media event? A Fox News report claims that we will.

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High-end laptops usually have low battery life, but ASUS showed a new laptop at CES packing a high-end GeForce GPU and a low-power Intel IGP...and choosing on its own which one to use at any given moment. The claimed results are dramatic.

With a number of awesome new gadgets being introduced this year, CES 2010 was nothing less than breath taking this year. Here is a wrap up of CES 2010 in pictures.

A look at the countries who hold the bulk of US national debt.

As the charges and allegations continue to mount against the USC football program, Pete Carroll is being held partially responsible for a DUI accident involving one of his former assistant coaches.

With thousands of exhibitors spread out through several convention halls and hotels, there are always lots of stories that go overlooked.

Microsoft loses patent appeal; Word and Office to be barred from sale starting January 11

In a not-uncommon development for the social-networking leader, Facebook's recently released privacy controls are leaving the company a bit red-faced. As a result of a new policy that by default makes users' profiles, photos and friends lists available on the web, almost 300 personal photos of founder Mark Zuckerberg became publicly available.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that heavy smartphone users only represent about 3 percent of the customer base, but their mobile activities are accounting for 40 percent of data traffic. That imbalance is disconcerting to AT&T, and they’re going to do everything in their power.

A pub owner in the U.K. has been fined £8,000 (about $13,183) because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over its open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud.

It sits literally in the middle of nowhere and is also site of a heavily secured pilot flight training school but the graveyard holds 100s of abandoned planes and parts and offers one of the more surreal landscapes in this or any desert.

BitTorrent Inc. is about to launch a completely improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that will benefit both users and ISPs. uTorrent 2.0, which is currently being tested by thousands of people, will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle or stop BitTorrent traffic, and will optimize the download experience for its users.