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Rather than portraying the inner workings of the social network, this documentary shows one example of the impact it has on real-world connections.

A legal complaint from Universal Music is to blame, according to the upstart service that charges $3 a month for unlimited on-demand music streams to iPhones.

Hopes that HBO content would soon stream on Netflix's Watch Instantly service appear to be dashed, as statements from HBO's co-president point to the company focusing on its own streaming service instead.

Two categories of search market share will now be presented: one that only counts searches done with explicit intent, and one that takes a wider view of search.

Vimeo has made its embedded video player compatible with more devices with a new version that can serve up either an Adobe Flash-based player or an HTML5 video player on the fly.

China Unicom, the nation's second-largest carrier, is apparently getting Apple's iPhone 4 next month. China will also get the iPad.

Announced late last year, the X3 will make its debut in Europe in the third quarter, sporting both a touch screen and physical keypad and offering a music player and FM radio.

Fortify's software allow developers to layer in security and compliance protections throughout the application creation cycle.

India joins Saudi Arabia and the UAE in threatening to end BlackBerry service unless RIM allows government monitoring, China Unicom will get the iPhone 4 next month, and Barnes & Noble releases a Nook e-reader app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

RIM's new device is being sold for a 50 percent discount at some retailers less than a week after the smartphone's launch.

If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.

The government ups the ante by sending letters to wireless operators informing them they will have to shut down BlackBerry services if RIM doesn't comply with demands by August 31.

Paul Shin Devine pleads not guilty to 23 counts related to alleged kickbacks, while two manufacturers listed in the indictment are running their own probes.

No, they aren't wasting your favorite vice: The butanol fuel is made from whiskey by-products that would otherwise be discarded.

The social-gaming network that started out on the iPhone and then went to Android is now reaching 100,000 new users a day--a number that the company hopes will get bigger with a new Taiwanese telco partnership.

Game developer THQ unveils a 4-by-6-inch pad that lets you draw and color images that show up on your TV screen. A Pictionary game will be sold separately.

A burning car isn't a great place for a higher-end SLR and a laptop. The good news: the SanDisk memory card and the MacBook's hard drive survived.

Company is trying the crack the market for local Web ads--something no one has yet figured out--by starting digital versions of community newspapers.

The promised all-new Nook for iPhone app has arrived, along with an update to the bookseller's Nook for iPad app.

Drivers set out from Switzerland to circle the globe in electric vehicles powered by renewable energy, a project to underscore the potential of clean transportation.