Texting and tweeting through Obama's swearing in Crowd control at President-elect Barack Obama’s January 20 inauguration ceremony will present quite a challenge: On top of the 240,000 ticketed guests who will descend upon the National Mall that day, millions more are expected to join. Ten thousand...

Apple working on large-screen iPod Touch Apple is expected to release an iPod Touch device with a 7- to 9-inch screen in the fall of 2009, according to a report on TechCrunch that cites three independent sources. One of TechCrunch’s sources claims to have actually handled one of the prototypes, and...

Online holiday sales drop 3 percent Online holiday spending declined 3 percent compared with last year’s online shopping season, the first negative growth rate in the past eight years, according to a ComScore report released Tuesday. Between November 1 and December 23, U.S. online merchants recorded...

FCC chairman revises free wireless plan Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has backed off his plan that would require free wireless broadband license holders to filter for smut. On Monday, the chairman told the blog Ars Technica that he has revised his proposal for free wireless...

'Natural and beautiful' ... a baby is breastfed. File picture FACEBOOK is under fire after removing pictures of breastfeeding mothers from members’ pages. A Facebook group entitled “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” has already attracted nearly 85,000 members and a...