As the players, coaches and halftime performers — not to mention the Lombardi Trophy — make their way to Miami’s Sun Life Stadium for the Super Bowl on Sunday, Jerry Hunter and company will be keeping a close eye on them.

Rocker-actress Courtney Love was recently sued for something she posted on Twitter. What does the law say about libel and online social media — and what does it mean for you?

Hoping to capitalize on the momentum created by the release of its Pre smartphone, Palm on Wednesday will unveil a smaller, cheaper smartphone called Pixi.

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey Wednesday gave the first public demonstration of his hotly-anticipated latest venture — a device to allow credit card payments by cell phone — and revealed it would be given away for free.

The oceans, like the land, have gotten crowded, and scientists and policy makers are looking for ways to plan ocean development. The goal is to prevent our public-owned seas from turning into sprawling, watery versions of Atlanta, Georgia or Houston, Texas.

A team of scientists has agreed that a giant asteroid killed off dinosaurs and a majority of other species on Earth more than 65 million years ago.

The Internet’s most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said.

Admit it, runners: When you’re on the fifth mile of your fourth run of the week and there’s nothing but you, the summer heat and 5 more miles to go, things can get a bit … boring.

On the eve of Sunday’s launch of space shuttle Endeavour, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said he supports President Obama’s goal of making the space industry a commercial venture, but is concerned about potential job losses at the agency.

Wednesday’s Apple announcements surprised observers who expected to see a video camera added to the upgraded iPod Touch. So why didn’t Apple take that step? The answer may lie with the newly invigorated iPod Nano, which is now poised to challenge Flip’s cheap, tiny camcorders.

Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a Bay Area-based startup that helps aggregate all of a user’s social networking activity feeds in one place. But this is not as ridiculously huge of a deal as the Silicon Valley hype machine is going to have you believe.

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.

Apple on Tuesday unveiled Aperture 3, the latest update of its photo editing and management software.

Author says the U.S. government inadvertently aided the Chinese hackers who allegedly attacked Google.

What did you do this summer? Flat World Knowledge stayed busy on campus and now has 40 times as many students and more than 10 times the colleges using their freemium, open-source digital textbooks as they did spring semester. And they did it the old-fashioned way — one professor at a time.

If you live in New York City and want to buy an iPhone as a post-Christmas treat, you may run into some roadblocks.