By Jacob Kleinman Back in January, Yahoo acquired Aviate , an Android launcher still in beta testing. Now, more than six months later Aviate is ready for the masses, offering a unique and simple way to organize your Android device. If you've played around with Android before, you already...

By Jim Edwards Apple is set to release iPhone 6, its latest update to the iPhone juggernaut, in the fall. While iPhone 6 sales are expected to be huge for various reasons, there is a broader question facing Apple: Is it boxed in as a brand and a platform that merely serves the richest 15%...

By Dean Takahashi Above: Project Flare enables virtual worlds that are 17 times bigger than Skyrim. Image Credit: Square Enix No new consoles debuted at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). But we saw plenty of new technology that reminds us that the hardware that hosts games could,...

By Julie Bort Amazon Fire phone While Amazon has introduced a lot of cool gadgetry for consumers with its new Fire smartphone, it certainly didn't ignore business users. Amazon has a surprisingly robust list of features for work, including some things that will make enterprise IT professionals...

By Joseph Pisani, The Associated Press - The Canadian Press NEW YORK, N.Y. - A picture is worth thousands of dollars for Limelight Extensions. Phones start ringing at the Farmington Hills, Michigan, salon each time co-owner Miranda Jade Plater posts pictures on photo-sharing app Instagram....

By Derrik J. Lang, The Associated Press - The Canadian Press LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Game makers at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo went for the jugular. That's not just a metaphor about the competitive spirit of the video game industry at its annual trade show this past week. There...

By Elizabeth Bernstein, The Wall Street Journal "How can I tell if someone is lying to me online, or in a text or an email?" Readers have been asking me about this issue a lot lately. In an age of online dating and constant emails, texts and social media, people write to tell me about...

By Dan Tynan , Tech Columnist One day about four years ago, I came home from work and heard utter mayhem coming from my son's room: Russian voices, screeching tires, gunshots. I bolted up the stairs and threw open his door. I found him parked in front of his Xbox, playing Grand Theft Auto IV....

By Brandon Bailey covers Google, Facebook and Yahoo for the San Jose Mercury News, reporting on the business and culture of the Internet. Okay, all you Windows XP users – and, by now, you know who you are. The security threat to your computer could get uncomfortably real next week. ...

By Alyssa Bereznak , Tech Columnist Getting lost just got a little bit harder. Google Maps is rolling out new features to its mobile Android and iOS apps that are meant to improve commuting by automobile, train, and even the Uber car service. The company announced the slew of updates meant...

Modern PCs don't require as much maintenance as they once did. But showing your hard drive some love now and then can make a difference in its speed and efficiency, especially if it's fairly full. Here it is: the non-techie's guide to optimizing your system using Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter. ...

After a recent rumor suggested that the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 may be delayed because Apple is facing supply issues related to the phone’s battery, a new report now says that Apple will only manufacture a limited run of the bigger model. G 4 Games has picked up reports from Chinese media via Weibo...

Rob Walker | @YahooTech Google may have set out to "organize the world's information," but thanks to the creativity of a huge variety of artists, designers, hackers and other tinkerers it s become something else: an art museum hidden within a search engine. Because a slew of people have found...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Ecuador's foreign minister said Monday his country will act not on its interests but on its principles as it considers an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, wanted for revealing classified U.S. secrets. Speaking to reporters through a translator...