PARIS – A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets.

The Motorola Droid might be partially responsible for a huge jump in consumer awareness and popularity of the Android operating system, but there is still one thing the Droid does -- but doesn't do very well: support multitouch.

BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A computer hacker briefly hijacked Twitter.com on Thursday, redirecting users to a website and claiming to represent a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Sex was a hot online search topic for children in 2009, according to findings released by Internet security specialty firm Norton.

It's far more common for consumers to have cell phones than credit cards, particularly outside the United States. Therefore, a unified system to use phones to make payments seems to be a no-brainer. The difficulty has been in the execution of this rather simple concept. However, Paymo believes it has found a way.

With the popularity of smartphones on the rise, the mobile Internet is taking off, and e-commerce must follow it. Online vendors should use tools like mobile replay and mobile visitor and device metrics to gain insight into how on-the-go users are accessing their sites and what they're doing there, writes Tealeaf's John Dawes.

As long as people can get away with it, there will be fraud. However, there are signs you can watch out for that might raise a red flag on potentially fraudulent transactions. Look for questionable street and email addresses as well as multiple orders from the same device.