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The tech sector bounces back from early losses to close higher Friday on gains from Apple Inc. and Google Inc., leading the Nasdaq Composite Index to another winning week.

AT&T's exclusive deal to carry the iPhone in the U.S. expires next year, according to people familiar with the matter, and Mr. Stephenson is now in discussions with Apple Inc. to get an extension until 2011.

What he lacks in technique, Steve Wozniak makes up for in geeks.

The next generation of iPhone software allows users to cut and paste text between applications.

We just got the announcement. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It's going down March 17th.

Apple unveils a new, even smaller iPod Shuffle.

After all that excitement in the run-up, Apple's done just about the bare minimum that was expected in a Mac mini update. The new SKUs both run 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processors and are backed up by the same NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics that've done wonders for the MacBook. For $600 you get 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive, $800 nabs 2GB of RAM ...

Power browsers are coming. And they'll look mighty familiar. Software is supposed to be a mature industry, characterized by some sort of mono- or duopoly. How to explain, then, the activity around Web browsers. Three of the tech industry's biggest names -- Microsoft, Google and Apple -- each has a significant in-house browser development effort, with periodic fresh releases.

An Apple investor asked the question everyone at the company's annual shareholder meeting wanted answered.

Apple Inc.'s decision to offer a public beta of its new Safari 4 Web browser -- available for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista -- caught the tech world by surprise.