From showing you the nearest sushi bar in London to telling you how to say “Where’s the toilet?” in Cantonese, travel apps for the iPhone are proving to be a useful tool.

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The deal, for $12 billion to $13 billion, would be Hewlett-Packard’s largest since its merger with Compaq.

Hannaford Brothers, supermarket chain based in Scarborough, Maine, says that unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in nearly all its stores enabled data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards

Intel and Microsoft said that they planned to finance two groups of university researchers to start over and design a new generation of computing systems.

Regulators issued the company a $1.35 billion fine for failing to comply with a 2004 judgment that it had abused its dominance.

Seeking to satisfy European antitrust officials, Microsoft said on Thursday that it would open up and share many more of its technical secrets with the rest of the software industry.

A computer security research group has developed a way to steal encrypted information from computer hard disks.

A $2.2 billion offer for the network equipment maker 3Com stalled amid fears that equipment made for the U.S. military might be sabotaged.

Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. But Seattle is actually doing it.