Soldiers posing with slain or captive foes for trophy pictures is nothing new. What is new, experts said, is how technology is enabling such images to go viral.

Digital photography makes snapshots like those of U.S. soldiers alongside the mangled remains of Taliban suicide bombers reveal a brutal side of conflict that's disturbing to civilians, but all too familiar to combatants.

Internet auction powerhouse eBay on Wednesday reported that quarterly revenue and profit boomed due in large part to its PayPal online financial transaction service.

The San Jose, California-based company said that net income climbed 20 percent to $570 million on revenue that soared 29 percent to $3.28 billion in the quarter to March 31.

Google co-founder Larry Page stuck to his guns in a San Francisco court on Wednesday, testifying that the Internet giant did nothing wrong when it built the Android platform for mobile gadgets.

Page returned to the stand to field questions in a trial over accusations by business software titan Oracle that Google opted to infringe on Java program copyright and patents instead of licensing code from Sun Microsystems.

British police probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's newspapers have given prosecutors files on 11 suspects after an investigation lasting more than a year, the chief prosecutor said Wednesday.

Four journalists, one police officer and six other people feature in the files that are now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges, director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer said.

A thousand inventions have gone on display at the world's biggest fair for new gadgets, where even the ribbon-cutting was done by a humanoid robot.

Offerings at the fair that opened Wednesday in Geneva included a ball to protect against household electromagnetic waves and a high-tech screen to play simulated golf.

Yahoo! is dumping products along with workers in a quest to return the faded Internet star to glory.

Yahoo! boss Scott Thompson announced the move on Tuesday while mapping out the company's turnaround on the heels of an unusually upbeat quarter in which profit climbed 28 percent.

The operator of Tokyo Sky Tree on Tuesday explained how the world's second-highest building will survive the strong earthquakes that regularly shake Japan when it opens to the public next month.

"The Tokyo Sky Tree was constructed with state-of-the-art Japanese technology. It will not fall," said Yoshihito Imamura, deputy manager of Tokyo Sky Tree Town.

U.S. government telecom regulators have ended an investigation into Google's "Street View" online mapping service gathering data from private wireless hotspots.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) enforcement bureau on Friday called for Google to pay a $25,000 penalty for stalling the probe but said that it could not accuse the Internet giant of breaking U.S. law.

The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation.

From the makers of computer chips to creators of smartphones and designers of videogames, rivalries have spread from marketplaces to courtrooms with combatants warring over rights to use technology.

Fascinated by the virtual nature of modern finance and currency swings, the California-based artist decided to meditate on monetary instability by exploring different physical characteristics of competing coins.

The result is the "Electrochemical Currency Exchange Co," an exhibition that opened Thursday and runs through the end of next week under New York's famous Rockefeller Plaza, named for American tycoon John D. Rockefeller.