Oracle issued an emergency fix today for vulnerabilities in its Java software about four months after Security Explorations, a security firm, warned the company about the bugs. The delay in providing a fix allowed more than 100,000 computers to get...

President Barack Obama made an unexpected appearance on the popular online forum Reddit.com today for an “ask me anything” session, where he fielded questions from the depths of the Internet on everything from college affordability to the White House beer...

Good luck unplugging: The average U.S. household owns five devices connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi, wired or cellular networks, according to new research from consultant Chetan Sharma. The survey of more than 1,000 people also revealed this shocker: more...

Apple, Google and Roku see an untapped market in set-top boxes that deliver online entertainment to the television, but after many years, some are wondering if they’ve tuned into the right channel. The overall market for these devices, which compete with...

Location-based social networks such as Foursquare and Highlight are useful for gleaning information about people and places close by. But what if you wanted to tune into the online chatter of those attending a political rally in another state, or...

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman doesn’t golf, but Augusta National’s decision this week to admit female members for the first time in its 80-year history affected her “personally as a woman,” she said today. “I was delighted,” Whitman said in an...

Inside a Maryland warehouse last week, Tiffany Rad was teaching a few dozen young people how to break into cars. It was nothing sinister — Rad is a security professional with a cool job: She hacks into cars full-time for...

For a company that has struggled to keep a chief executive officer in place, Yahoo! has spawned more than its share of technology leaders from its ranks who have gone on to run other companies. More of today’s leading technology...

As young city dwellers choose car-sharing services such as Zipcar over owning their vehicle, BMW is getting into the act with its first U.S. rental program starting in San Francisco. At a rate of $12 for the first half hour...

At Groupon, daily deals are fading. That’s the message the company sent many investors this week when it reported a decline in gross billings, or the total value of goods and services bought on its site, between the first and...