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How Microsoft's marketing failure is everyone's loss.

The Canadian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy concerns about Google Glass in an open letter to CEO Larry Page.

Microsoft was in talks with smartphone partner Nokia about buying up its mobile devices business, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A White House petition requesting that President Obama pardon admitted National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is quickly amassing signatures as the 29-year-old former government contrac...

Worried about the NSA snooping on you? Here are five NSA-proof ways to protect your privacy.

Amid the revelations that the National Security Agency has been secretly monitoring the records of millions of phone calls across the country via telephone service provider Verizon, Congress is concerned that the NSA's actions may have also...

After years of quiet and largely unsuccessful diplomacy, the U.S.

Want to switch off the living room lights from bed, change channels while washing dishes, or turn the heat up from the couch? A team at...

The court martial is not about establishing Bradley Manning's guilt - it is about the scale of the crime and what punishment he deserves.

As more of our lives are lived online – with women in particular plagued by "trolls" – Dr Brooke Magnanti offers seven great tips for dealing with online abuse, ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival next week.

Microsoft has pulled the plug on many of its controversial network connectivity policies surrounding the Xbox One. No longer, wrote Microsoft executive Don Mattrick today, will the company impose m...

Twitter has acquired Boston-based local social startup Spindle, the "discovery engine for the social web."

A best-selling author and technology expert has said that web users should boycott internet giants like Google and Facebook if it is confirmed they were involved in a US surveillance programme referred to as Prism...

Prism is reported to have given the NSA access to the servers of some of the biggest tech companies, but what could they see?

Google’s launch of its dazzling Internet-connected eyewear, which it calls Glass, has been so understated that it’s tempting to mistake this wearable computer for just another cool plaything from Silicon Valley.

What can people do to protect their privacy from massive data-mining efforts by U.S. and other intelligence services? The answer is not much, short of going off the grid completely.

• Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007

The developers of a new mobile app may have just caught a break --- and found a new group of potential customers --- with the revelation that government is secretly snooping on Verizon cell phone user...

Researchers in London have discovered that one in five adults in the UK think Google Glass and other wearable technology should be banned completely, with more than half of those asked likening the gadget to 'Big Brother'.

Plans for the executive shakeup are not final and may still change

Tech company Motorola is working on an electronic stick-on tattoo and a pill you swallow that give out signals telling gadgets who you are.

Should pot be legalized and taxed?