Safari needs to be a final wake-up call: We all need to be more vigilant about what data is being shared, with whom it is being shared, and where.

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The European Union decided to have Europe’s top court decide whether the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) violates the freedom of expression.

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Microsoft lodged a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator against Google's Motorola Mobility, saying the company's aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules.

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The Center for Digital Democracy has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission for a ruling on whether Google's announced change in privacy policy violates its consent decree with the FTC over Google Buzz.

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Late last year, President Obama nominated Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai to fill two vacancies on the five-person Federal Communications Commission. Both nominations are hung up in the Senate for reasons that have nothing to do with the nominees themselves. They are pawns in a couple of fights with the FCC by some Senate Republicans. However, both nominees have strong credentials for the FCC jobs, according to FCC watchers.

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Billionaire Philip Falcone’s LightSquared wireless venture is cutting 45 percent of its jobs, or about 149 positions, to preserve cash after its plan to start operating was rejected by the Federal Communications Commission.

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While many developed countries have adjusted their laws and regulations to address cloud computing, the wide differences in those rules make it difficult for companies to invest in the technology, according to a new study by the Business Software Alliance.

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As Rupert Murdoch attempts to move forward from the phone hacking scandal that threatened his media empire, he received a sober reminder that it is still far from over.

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Even with the heavy subsidies phone companies must pay to Apple and some five years after its introduction, the iPhone may well be the best thing going for the mobile industry.

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Forget PCs, tablets have captured the technology industry's attention. Here are the areas where tablets are poised to dominate: Healthcare, Hospital, and Medical Applications; Sales Force; Entertainment; Retail; Education; Publishing; and Mobile Workers.

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Indiana and Ohio are the first states to take advantage of the next-generation backbone being built out by Internet2 and the Energy Department, linking in-state academic research networks to the 100-gigabits/sec cross-country network.

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The Federal Communications Commission has announced plans for yet another effort to determine people’s broadband speeds.

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WAMU announced the departure of news director Jim Asendio. This morning, WAMU held an event to bring together donors and WAMU staffers. Those two events are connected, says ...

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Verizon’s continuing struggle to keep its LTE network running consistently has landed it in the news again.

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Thanks to recent research at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Semiconductor Research Corporation, we may soon (within the next 5 years) be able to tap into the terahertz wavelengths that are hovering out there at the edge of the infrared band just before microwave band spectrum starts.

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In the near future, getting your smartphone, tablet or laptop connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot won’t be an exercise in frustration or require annoying pop-up log-in screens.

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The world of Web marketing is based on the idea of search engine optimization, which means building Web pages that search engines can find and then drive readers to. But what if the right pages could come to you instead?

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Congress has been mulling general online privacy laws for longer than Google and Facebook have been dot-coms. But none has passed muster.

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AT&T's failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA cost the telecommunications giant $4 billion in assets and cash. It also cost Chief Executive Randall Stephenson.

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Technology news bloggers' curious habit of accepting investments from the very people they're presumed to be covering objectively blew up last week over what might be termed the Path Affair.

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Google is getting more aggressive in prioritizing its own services in search results at the expense of independent sites, according to a senior TripAdvisor executive, even since the search engine group has come under closer regulatory scrutiny following allegations of anticompetitive behavior.

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Mozilla, the Mountain View nonprofit that took on Microsoft's Internet browser dominance nearly a decade ago and won, now wants to play the same transformative role with the mobile Web.

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The Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances. Rather than stick with traditional all-you-can-eat deals known as "enterprise licensing agreements," the CIA wants to buy software services on a "metered," pay-as-you-go basis.

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A broad coalition of media organizations — including The New York Times — urged a federal appeals court to protect an investigative reporter from being forced to testify about his confidential sources, rejecting the Justice Department’s claim that journalists have no such protections in criminal trials.

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Ecuador’s highest court has delivered a staggering, shameful blow to the country’s democracy, siding with President Rafael Correa’s campaign to silence and bankrupt El Universo, Ecuador’s largest newspaper.

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A rise in citizen-generated video during the Arab revolutions created space for mainstream media in these countries to report the uprisings and amplify the protesters’ message.

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Vice President Biden met with first responders to thank them for their service and to discuss the new nationwide public safety broadband network included in the Payroll Tax Extension legislation. In addition, he announced the release of a new report from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), The Economic Benefits of New Spectrum for Wireless Broadband, describing the substantial economic value of aggressively pursuing President Obama’s goal of nearly doubling the amount of spectrum available for wireless broadband over ten years and deploying a nationwide interoperable wireless network for public safety.

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Mobile operators might as well give in and work with web companies when it comes to delivering services via mobile broadband. That’s the conclusion of the latest report out from Allot Communications, a company that aims to sell software and gear to companies like Verizon and AT&T.

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It was rush hour in the Verizon/SpectrumCo/Cox Federal Communications Commission docket as comments came in in advance of the midnight Feb. 21 deadline.

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The Commerce Department appears close to finally releasing its long-awaited final report outlining the Obama Administration's position on consumer privacy online. The report is likely to be released as soon as Feb 23.

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