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People who rely most on their smartphones to get online, often deal more frequently with service interruptions, because of financial hardship and data caps.

A campaign is underway to repair former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's legacy after a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky tarnished his image.

A searchable database of more than 500 billion words from millions of books published over the past four centuries is now online. Researchers say the tool is a powerful way to study cultural change.

More than 70 percent of the Internet is potentially threatened by a bug named Shellshock. But it may take months to see its impact on users.

The proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility would give Google full control of its mobile experience, but it's also likely to elicit protests from other handset manufacturers and federal regulators. Observers say Google's bid is an acknowledgment that Apple's model of controlling both hardware and software is the way to go.

Animated GIFs of satellite images show the before and after effects of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

The U.S. is moving to digitize health care with electronic medical records, Web portals and mobile apps. But as medical data goes online, it is becoming a hot commodity for hackers.

Google claims that Microsoft is unfairly raising the price of smartphones. Both Samsung and HTC make phones with Google's Android operating system. They have both agreed to pay Microsoft — not Google — for the privilege. That's because Microsoft claims Android steps on its patents.

The company says the feature will help set priorities for a user's inbox and ease up that sense of information overload. Google says people who used the new system in its testing phase saved about a week's worth of time over the course of a year.

Not long after Turkey's prime minister imposed a ban on Twitter, Internet users in Turkey went on — what else? — Twitter to find ways to circumvent the blockade.