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Internet users are spending a lot of time on social-networking Web sites, and as a result Facebook has shot up in popularity and has everyone from groups of moms to priests talking about it. The number of users flocking to the site to communicate with friends, check event invites, and post photos has soared.

Social-networking sites in general saw an increase in visitors, claiming 6.13 percent of U.S. Internet traffic, up four percent year over year, according to tracking company Hitwise.…

Intel has accused rival Advanced Micro Devices of breaching a 2001 cross-licensing agreement with the $4.3 billion semiconductor spin-off of Globalfoundries. AMD denies the allegations.

Threatening to terminate AMD’s rights in 60 days if the company doesn’t correct the breach, Intel said it “believes that Globalfoundries is not a subsidiary under terms of the agreement and is therefore not licensed under the 2001 patent cross-license agreement.”

AMD responded through a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. AMD denied any wrongdoing…

Google’s new telephone service, Google Voice, is receiving generally positive reviews from industry analysts. Some of the features, however, are raising potentially troubling legal issues.

Nearly two years ago, Google bought Grand Central, an Internet-based phone service, and opened it up to a limited number of beta testers. Over the following months, users got increasingly impatient with the lack of new features or upgrades to the service.

It turns out, however, that Grand Central was merely on hold as Google undertook a…

Apple has been busy this week. The Cupertino-based company rolled out the newest generation of its iPod shuffle, but the device is getting mixed reviews.

With its $79 price tag, the new iPod shuffle is still inexpensive compared to other iPods, but it is even smaller than the last version.

The AA battery-sized iPod shuffle measures 1.8 inches long and less than an inch wide, and weighs only .38 of an ounce, according to Apple’s specs on the device.

Manufacturers moved the…

Mozilla has unleashed its third beta release of Firefox 3.1 to testers. Available in 64 languages as well as separate builds for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 includes several new features and enhancements for boosting browser performance, Web compatibility, and speed.

The sheer volume of work that has already gone into the development of Firefox 3.1, which is code-named Shiretoko, makes the new browser feel like much more than a small, incremental improvement over Firefox…

North American Wii owners got an early holiday present today: Confirmation from global game manufacturer Capcom that it is releasing three versions of its multi-million seller franchise “Resident Evil” for the motion-based game system.

The first, “Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles,” is promoted as a sequel to “The Umbrella Chronicles,” the first of the RE titles to be released on the Wii. The other two titles, “Resident Evil” and “Resident Evil Zero,” are re-workings of Nintendo GameCube releases, and are being…

They’re busy dusting off the chairs and sweeping the stage in the big auditorium on Apple’s corporate campus. Around the country, iPhone-geek journalists are getting ready to descend on Cupertino, Calif., lured by Thursday’s e-mail announcement of an “Apple event” on Tuesday, March 17. Details are scant, but the company is promising “an advance preview of what we’re building” for an upcoming iPhone 3.0 software release.

The event is scheduled to get under way at 10 a.m. Pacific time in Building…