HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday. 

TALLAHASSE, FL -- Business owners have a new tool to access information during emergency situations and a way to report suspicious activity.  

SACRAMENTO, CA -- It's hard to say just how many iPods have been stolen in the United States since they first hit the market years ago. 

SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. said late Monday it will now sell TV shows, including popular NBC series, on the Zune Marketplace, a move that brings its selection of content for the digital media player a step closer to what Apple Inc.'s iTunes offers for Apple's much more popular iPod. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com. 

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Your cell phone has the potential to become a secret spying device, revealing conversations or locations to almost anyone. 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is outsourcing the Internet telephone functions of its instant messaging program to the startup Jajah. 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Qwest Communications International Inc. on Thursday introduced DSL plans with faster download speeds, including one that is the fastest DSL service from a major U.S. phone company. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer's effort to spawn more advertising opportunities. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists think the human race had a close call a while back. A genetic study suggests that human beings may have nearly become extinct about 70,000 years ago. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government wants to expand a coupon program meant to ease the transition to digital television broadcasting to cover nursing home residents and users of post office boxes.  

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in 

LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer offered a glimmer of hope on Thursday to fans of the company's Windows XP operating system, saying the company may reconsider its decision to stop selling it soon. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government wants to expand a coupon program meant to ease the transition to digital television broadcasting to cover nursing home residents and users of post office boxes. 

WASHINGTON, DC -- Writers are pushing for legislation to guarantee the Internet's status as an open forum for communication. Partic Verrone, the president of the Writers Guild of America, West, is scheduled to appear today before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee at a hearing entitled "The Future of the Internet."