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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed separate legislation designed to combat spyware and the illegal online swapping of copyright material. One bill requires people who share movies, videos and recordings on file-sharing services to provide...

A California lawyer who has waged an ongoing battle with Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) over personal attacks made against him on Yahoo message boards has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the company....

A California company has contacted the FBI after a video showing a U.S. hostage being held captive by a militant Islamist group appeared on its Web site this week, an employee confirmed Thursday. ...

THE TECH INDUSTRY is taking a dive, and not just in the stock market. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it has awarded grants to build an underwater data network off the...

Seriously, where is the world heading towards? This is quite sickening to me, and i'm sure it'll give you something to talk about. Could it get anymore insane? --Ed. Two men who...

California's mobile phones should soon be officially freed from unwanted text messages. On Thursday, Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill that would prohibit companies from spamming mobile phones and pagers with unwanted...

In the wake of a bungled state contract with Oracle, California officials on Wednesday effectively shut down the agency that negotiated the controversial software deal and ran an expensive state Web site. ...

The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Thursday filed an Amicus Curiae, or "friend of the court," brief with the California Supreme Court on behalf of an out-of-state defendant in a DVD-copying software publication case....