If this ain't the Droid you're looking for, we're not sure what is. The Motorola Droid 2 makes some modest improvements in hardware and software to make for a (mostly) winning follow-up to the original.

The maker of the iPhone and iPad is in talks with News Corp., Disney and the three major networks to let iTunes users rent TV shows at 99 cents a pop

Hui Hsiung, chief executive of Qisda Corp., must remain in the U.S. to face price-fixing charges and was denied a travel pass to Taiwan to attend a quarterly investor conference in Taipei.

Apple is reportedly in a deal to add 99-cent TV show rentals to iTunes, which already dishes up music, movies and apps.

Yet another large web company has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that re-creating deleted user cookies violates federal privacy laws.

Dell Inc. is readying a sweetened offer for data-storage provider 3Par Inc. after its earlier bid was bested by a $1.6 billion proposal by Hewlett-Packard Co., according to a person familiar with the matter.

When talented designers jump ship from big videogame companies, they gain a lot of freedom — and get out from under the thumbs of marketing teams. Such moves to independent development also provide gamers with pure dollops of genius like Jamie Cheng's new Shank.

Kevin Fong, Chairman of 3Par Inc., may find redemption in a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. after bad bets marred his tenure at venture capital firm Mayfield Fund.

A week after a high-profile paper suggested that the vast Deepwater Horizon oil plume could linger for months, another study claims bacteria are breaking the oil down quickly, and that the plume is likely gone. The conflict between the results are striking. Other researchers warn that there's just too little data to draw any conclusions. But the new findings are at least encouraging.

Google this week released an update for its Google mobile app for iPhone, which introduces push notifications for Google's calendar and a barely functional push feature for Google mail.

Huawei Technologies Co., China’s largest maker of phone equipment, said it’s working with a company started by former employees of Sprint Nextel Corp. to help win contracts with U.S. carriers.

A new device simulates the dizzying experience of returning from space by zapping pilots with electrical current behind the ears.

The Los Angeles sheriff's department is just fine with using an invisible heat ray, a weapon deemed too controversial for Afghanistan.

Facebook might be run by youngsters, but that didn't stop them from banning a political ad calling for marijuana legalization that used a marijuana leaf to drum up support.

The Scottish post-rock band drops a new concert movie and a fresh live album on the same day. Guitarist and sometime-singer Stuart Brathwaite talks about the intense projects and Mogwai's connection to comics legends Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.

Two computer security researchers hack an e-voting machine to play Pac-Man.

With all apologies to defending World Cup champion Spain, we all know Brazil is the leading force in global soccer and has been for decades. But Brazil's prowess on the pitch also carries over to blind soccer, where teams play five a side, the goalies can see (though it's optional), and the ball has bearings inside so the players can hear and sense it coming toward them.

Mozilla has released the fourth beta for the upcoming Firefox 4 browser. The latest pre-release version of Firefox 4 brings several new features, including a new tab organization tool, hardware acceleration in Windows 7 and more support for HTML5 video.

SCVNGR is a location-based gaming platform for mobile phones that has been used in alternate-reality games for campaigns ranging from the New England Patriots to Dexter. They scored $4 million in venture capital late last year. In this article, Jane Doh takes an in-depth look at this helpful tool for puzzle designers looking for a more local flavor.

The producer with the fantasy-filled mind talks about his update of the '70s TV classic Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Since there is no swearing, nudity or graphic violence in the movie, he says it got an R rating for being "too scary."