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Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies

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 ...

Coding camps for kids rise in popularity

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 Samsung tablets mimic Galaxy phones

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 ...

Mobile-payment companies roll out new toys for businesses

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 ...

Company launching Internet-beaming balloons

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up ...