During a budget work session Tuesday evening, York supervisors scrutinized local contributions to support state and federally mandated services and a plan to replace some of the county's computer equipment without dipping into the county's operational budget.

Indrani Medhi of Microsoft Research India has developed text-free user interfaces (UIs) to allow any illiterate or semi-literate person on first contact with a computer, to proceed with minimal or no assistance.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top computer companies were mixed at the close of trading: Apple Inc rose $3.94 or 1.8 percent, to $223.02. Dell Inc rose $.17 or 1.2 percent, to $14.18. Hewlett Packard rose $.15 or .3 percent, to $51.88. IBM fell $.86 or .7 percent, to $125.55. Lexmark rose $.66 or 1.9 percent, to $35.23.

Defenders and detractors of Apple's upcoming tablet are both getting worked up, denying that the iPad is a computer.

A Reynoldsburg man pleads guilty to one count of possession of child pornography after investigators found approximately 20,000 video and image files of child pornography on his home computer.

It turns out all Pennsylvanians are sharing the bill for a $68,000 state computer glitch that left thousands of people struggling to file unemployment claims.

On the surface of things, the Energizer Duo USB battery charger is the most innocuous of gadgets. You simply plug it into your USB port, slap in some batteries, and voila! Your computer juices them up. Not the most useful of gadgets, okay, but not bad for the road warrior on the go who needs [...]

Q. When I launch Excel or Internet Explorer, it often takes half a minute to a minute for the program to open and become usable. When I close my browser, a window appears stating that “Internet Explorer has encountered a problem while closing” and asks me to “send error report to Microsoft.” My computer runs fine outside of this. Could you tell me what to do to solve this problem?Flo Clowes ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top computer companies are mixed at noon: Apple Inc rose $4.73 or 2.2 percent, to $223.81. Dell Inc rose $.30 or 2.1 percent, to $14.31. Hewlett Packard rose $.26 or .5 percent, to $51.99. IBM fell $.56 or .4 percent, to $125.85. Lexmark rose $.85 or 2.5 percent, to $35.42.

If your computer contracted a virus over the last three years, your Energizer battery charger may be to blame.