Consider, for a moment, the possibility of a completely addictive electronic game that had a more noble objective than destroying pigs with slingshot-flung birds or traveling through post-apocalyptic wastelands.What about a game that was geared toward teen girls SEmD a free game that kept them ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where Engelbart had been a fellow since ...

The video game Jacob Asofsky is creating is simple: "Someone who is trying to take over the world and you try to stop them."The 12-year-old from Florida is spending two weeks at a summer camp in a program that teaches programming skills to young people."It's about having fun, but it also gives ...

NEW YORK -- Samsung is expanding its lineup of tablet computers and making them look more like its Galaxy smartphones, as it hopes to translate its success in phones to the tablet market, where Apple is dominant.Samsung Electronics Co., the second-largest maker of tablets after Apple, on Monday ...

Forget ka-ching. It's all tap-tap these days.Restaurants and shop owners fed up with antiquated cash registers and expensive credit card terminals are switching to cheaper devices that plug into smartphones and tablets. And companies such as PayPal, Square Inc. and Groupon Inc. are rushing to ...