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A freelance security consultant working on behalf of the Chinese government was likely involved in the hack attacks that prompted Google to take a stand against China last month, the Financial Times reported on Sunday ...

A Pennsylvania couple has filed a lawsuit against their local school district for allegedly using the webcam in a school-issued laptop to spy on their son at home. ...

Microsoft and Yahoo have received clearance for their search agreement from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, the companies jointly announced Thursday, and they will soon begin implementing their plans ...

Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in nanotechnology ...

Just a week after the launch of Google Buzz, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Tuesday filed a complaint with the FTC charging that the new service violates federal consumer protection law ...

Google has updated the beta version of its Chrome for Linux with a variety of fixes designed to make the browser more reliable, the company announced Thursday. ...

Just days after releasing its Buzz service for Gmail users, Google plunged further into the social media waters on Thursday by acquiring social search site Aardvark ...

World leaders must embrace agricultural biotechnology if they are to cope with the severe food shortages likely to result from global warming in the coming decades, warns a group of scientists ...

Originally planned for launch on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was delayed once again on Wednesday due to high winds. ...

Google's Nexus One phone is a winner, according to Linus Torvalds, founder of the operating system it's based on ...

Following a day's delay due to cloudy weather, space shuttle Endeavour launched successfully early Monday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

When the Symbian Foundation announced the opening up of its namesake smartphone platform on Thursday, it caused a major shift not just in the mobile landscape but also in the FOSS world ...

President Obama on Monday proposed a dramatically new path that would end NASA's Constellation moon program and shift the agency's focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead ...

The iPhone propelled the smartphone onto the front lines of cross-platform competition, and now Apple's new iPad has the potential to do the same for the new category of tablet devices ...

After a brief protest late last week, Amazon now says it will give in and sell e-books from Macmillan at the higher prices the publisher has requested ...

Following a month of testing at no cost to customers, Microsoft's Windows Azure platform will become a paid service on Monday. ...

The Chinese government won't block the use of Google's Android operating system on mobile phones in the country as long as the operating system abides by Chinese laws, a key government official said on Wednesday. ...

Linux inched ahead in the operating-system arena during the final month of 2009, even as Windows and Mac gave up some ground ...

The Chinese government issued a series of statements over the weekend that defended the country's Internet censorship policies and accused the United States of maintaining a "double standard" when it comes to online surveillance ...

American companies need to take a stand against censorship on the Internet, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday in a speech on Internet freedom delivered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C ...