The heirs of a Dutch Internet inventor are suing Facebook for allegedly infringing his patents with the U.S. social-networking site’s “like” and “share” buttons, court documents seen on Monday said. The family of Jos Van Der Meer, a computer scientist, programmer and inventor who ...

Apple is testing a watch-like device that could perform some smartphone functions, U.S. media reports said Monday. The New York Times reported that the maker of iPhones and iPads is experimenting with a curved-glass device, which could incorporate a bendable display glass developed by ...

When Sony pulls back the curtain on the next-generation PlayStation videogame console, the world will see how much the Japanese consumer electronics titan has been paying attention. Sony could double-up on hardware to power even more realistic graphics and rich game-play than the impressive ...

The communications theorist Marshall McLuhan observed that “we look at the present through a rear-view mirror.” And that “we march backwards into the future.” Amen. Remember the horseless carriage? Not to mention the fact that we still measure the oomph of a Porsche 911 ...

Nothing lasts forever: if history has any lesson for us, it is this. It’s a thought that comes from rereading Paul Kennedy’s magisterial tome, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,” in which he shows that none of the great nation-states or empires ...

In recent years, there have been several cases where Japanese media icons, especially those who shine across national and language borders, have been accused of falsifying their personal histories, and they have consequently lost whatever popularity they had gained through the mass media and/or ...