Does the card issuer have to notify you of a breach? How much damage could the hackers do to you?

Hackers got access to 130 million credit and debit card accounts, federal prosecutors allege.

But it blames outside political groups for signing their members up to get messages from the Obama administration.

After insisting that no one was receiving unsolicited e-mails from the White House, officials reversed themselves Monday night — but blamed outside political groups for the messages.

Magazine identifies the notebook computers that make the grade this fall.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson on Monday entrusted the head of Ericsson’s U.S. technology division with the task of leading the struggling cellphone maker back to profit and reversing a sharp decline in market share.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc is developing mobile devices for China Mobile Ltd, according to spokesmen for the computer maker, which has long been rumored to have ambitions in the smartphone market.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Heavy subsidies shelled out by telecom operators around the world to lure consumers to buy an Apple iPhone have done nothing to increase profits, and have even dented them in some cases, a research report showed on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp is looking to the building blocks of our bodies — DNA — to be the structure of next-generation microchips.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. videogame equipment and software sales fell 29 percent in July to $848.9 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, as the gaming industry limps through the economic downturn.

PayPal launches student program linked to parents’ bank accounts.