President Barack Obama banned U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies on Friday and began reining in the vast collection of Americans’ phone data in a series of limited
Several prominent computer security experts have cancelled appearances at the largest annual conference on security technology and are now lending their names to a rival gathering as discord in the industry over
President Barack Obama will announce on Friday a major overhaul of a controversial National Security Agency programme that collects vast amounts of basic telephone call data on foreigners and Americans, a senior
Britain’s High Court ruled on Thursday that a group of Internet users can sue US tech giant Google over an alleged breach of privacy legislation. The California-based Internet giant had applied to
A Cisco security report released on Thursday showed that hacker threats reached “startling levels” last year and that the world is suffering from a shortage of skilled computer defenders. Cracks in defenses
Search engine giant, Google, on Wednesday announced an upgrade for its Chrome apps for Android and iOS, bringing them up to version 32. The new apps feature new tweaks that will allow
The U.S. National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, Britain’s Guardian
We have already heard about Nokia’s rumoured Normandy’s UI, but now, new leaked screenshots seem to have revealed new details of the yet-to-be-announced first Nokia Android device. Phone tipster, @evleaks has yet
It looks as if the Google pixie dust isn’t so easy to spread around. Marissa Mayer’s arrival at Yahoo as chief executive a year and a half ago was widely hailed as
When our Internet-connected gadgets and home appliances all learn to talk to each other, Google wants to be at the center of the conversation. This imagined future is still a few years
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is cutting loose her top lieutenant in a possible sign that the Internet company’s efforts to revive its long-slumping advertising sales aren’t paying off. Wednesday’s surprise announcement of
The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is increasing pressure on Google to swiftly provide better proposals to address allegations the firm is abusing its dominant position in Internet searches. If the U.S. tech