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Eight members of an Arab family from northern Israel, upset about a male relative's cross-dressing photos he shared on Facebook, were indicted Thursday on charges tied to their kidnapping and punishment of the 19-year-old man.

A new survey of asteroids near Earth by a NASA space telescope has found a much wider variety of the space rocks than previously thought, with some shiny and bright while others are dark and dull.

A booming market of tweens, ages 8 to 11, is changing the landscape of online games.

Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

This dramatic tale of a Facebook stalker hacking and harassing young girls on Facebook speaks to a couple of issues regularly faced in this brave new world of social media — the dangers awaiting children online and Facebook's oft-complained-about lack of customer service.

Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced it's opening up access to smart phones for customers who prepay for service, such as people with poor credit and those who don't want to be tied down by long-term contracts.

Google is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple, according to people familiar with the matter.

Windows Phone 7 OS was released to manufacturers Thursday, meaning that it's ready to be baked into new phones and carrier networks.

Rumors of 99-cent streaming TV shows were also true, available as rentals from Fox and ABC, but there's no iOS as some reports suggested, and no apps. Non-iTunes content will only come from Netflix, YouTube, Flickr, and whatever compatible media you've got stored on other devices.

More American adults have taken to texting in the past year, but teens still take the crown when it comes to using their phones for text-messaging, with 87 percent of them doing so, a new study says.