An Associated Press investigation found cases in which innocent people have been branded as pedophiles after their co-workers or loved ones stumbled upon child porn placed on a PC through a virus. It can cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars to prove their innocence.

Women are not built to raise children alone, according to biological anthropologists. So in an age when moms are often isolated from family and friends, they turn to strangers online for help.

Computer-based therapy has come a long way since ELIZA, a 1960s computer program designed to emulate (and parody) a therapist. Today, with the Internet, people can use the instant message format to communicate with real therapists.

We still gotta get our gadgets, but the recession has soured our tastes for some high-tech wares and sweetened them for others.

Zooloo is a clearing house for connecting, creating, and controlling the internet features you most care about.

With data from this smart phone application, your cell becomes a mobile traffic center, alerting you blocks in advance about red light cameras and speed traps.

Every second spent web-browsing generates 20 milligrams of CO2 and some studies estimates that the Internet will produce 20 percent of the world’s GHGs in 10 years.

A new WiFi-connected printer is going on the market this fall and you don’t even have to turn on your computer to use it.

According to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, simple e-mail reminders to eat more healthfully or increase physical activity had a significant effect on the recipients’ behavior.

Anyone with a mouse and Internet connection knows how easy it is to waste time online. What was supposed to be a few minutes visiting websites turns into an hour or two. Now there is a new app that can help you with self control when online.

A history of childhood abuse and use of a provocative online identity increase the risk that girls will be victimized by someone they meet on the Internet, according to a study appearing in the June issue of Pediatrics.

Family photos, music, resume and so on; for many people their laptops are their life. So if someone steals your computer their are new programs that can help catch the thieves and help you get your laptop back.

Mac computers are known for their near-immunity to malicious computer programs that plague PCs but the more popular they get, the more they are targets for harmful programs.

Computer hackers have embedded software in the United States’ electricity grid and other infrastructure that could potentially disrupt service or damage equipment, according to two former federal officials.

A cyber worm may hit millions of computers on April 1st, and yours might be one of them. Experts say the new computer worm, called “conficker” or “down-a-dup,“ is the worst infection since the slammer virus in January of 2003.