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GoDaddy has admitted one of its employees handed out customer information to a scammer who carried out a scheme to obtain a prime Twitter account, according to press reports Naoki Hiroshima, a developer at Echofon, this week detailed how the scammer was able to force him to hand over his prime Twitter account, @N.

A group of Norwegian lawmakers nominated former NSA contactor Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize Saying that his bottomless pit of surveillance revelations contributes to stability and transparency, the lawmakers submitted the nomination to the Nobel Foundation....

Less than two years after Google's US$12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility was finalized, Google on Wednesday announced that Lenovo would be purchasing Motorola Mobility in a $2.91 billion deal Google will be retaining the vast majority of Motorola's patent portfolio, including current patent applications and invention disclosures. Lenovo wil...

The Pirate Bay is once again wide open, thanks a ruling by an appeals court in the Netherlands that decreed Internet providers no longer have to block IP addresses associated with the site. The Hague Appeals Court reasoned that the required blocking was impossible to implement or enforce because users were able to use workarounds to access the sit...

Starwood Hotels & Resorts is rolling out a program in two of its hotels -- one in New York City's Harlem and one in Cupertino, Calif. -- that will allow customers to try a new lock system. Guests can download a mobile app that will allow them to virtually check in once they've arrived at the hotel. Then they'll be able to open their room door with the tap or wave of their smartphone instead of a plastic key card...

AT&T just said it would not bid for Vodafone -- at least not within the next six months. Over the years, we have seen the wireless and telecom sectors change dramatically in wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions. As U.S. carriers look for new areas of growth, will they start looking to expand overseas? I think so -- and not just AT&T, but Verizon as well, and then others. So what will this mean? ...

AT&T just said it would not bid for Vodafone -- at least not within the next six months. Over the years, we have seen the wireless and telecom sectors change dramatically in wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions. As U.S. carriers look for new areas of growth, will they start looking to expand overseas? I think so -- and not just AT&T, but Verizon as well, and then others. So what will this mean? ...

The iPhone 5c has been bugging me. As a product, it's so good -- and yet so wrong. By not saying much at all during the financial conference call with analysts this week, Apple has confirmed doubts while presenting new questions. Does the iPhone 5c represent a colossal misstep by Apple? Or is it just a mediocre product that remains profitable? Can it be both a misstep and a profitable device at the same time?...

Good or bad, useful or not, implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and Microsoft's Secure Boot extension might well foul the fuel driving consumer migration to the Linux desktop I have extensive experience installing various Linux distributions on both older and newer computers. I am handy at setting up disk partitions and dual...

Google on Monday announced that it had hacked together five simple games that take advantage of the unique features of Glass The company presented a brief demo of the five-title mashup as Mini Games Glassware, and it encouraged Glass developers to offer feedback.

Google is close to settling the antitrust case the European Commission brought against it more than three years ago, according to a Reuters report This is its third offer to the EC so far, and it reportedly includes commitments from Google on how it will treat rivals and how it will use content from other providers....

Smartphones have been steadily stealing shutterbugs from digital camera makers, but most of those converts are coming from the point-and-shoot snapper crowd. The next step for phone makers is to target more sophisticated photographers who use cameras with interchangeable lenses. Apple appears to be getting ready for that battle The United States Pa...

The widespread problems in implementing the Affordable Care Act have provided some momentum to the efforts by the Obama administration and Congress to ratchet up reforms in the management and procurement of information technology at the federal level President Obama, in fact, conceded the need to put more emphasis on such reforms when he spoke abou...

Skiing technologies have undergone a revolution in recent years, with skis, gear and gadgets changing how a new generation experiences the sport. These new technologies are making skiing safer, greener and more connected Rocker design is one trend that has been finding its way into the skiing world over the last several years -- with lift and curva...

iPhone rumors hit pretty much every week of the year, but some rise to the top -- with or without great sources. The latest bigger-screen iPhone 6 rumor comes courtesy of The Wall Street Journal in an article written by three authors who span the globe, writing together fromHong Kong, Taipei and San Francisco According to "people familiar with the ...

Samsung and Google on Monday solidified their business relationship, announcing a far-reaching, global cross-licensing agreement that will cover not only existing patents, but also intellectual property developed by the sprawling companies over the next 10 years Under the agreement, the companies will give each other access to their patent portfoli...

B1 Archiver is one of only a few archiver managers for the Linux platform that is reliably simple to use.Simplicity is a key trait that distinguishes the B1 Archiver from other Linux compression tools. In the category of smart-looking and simple archivers, one of my favorites is PeaZip.

The United States Department of Justice on Monday announced two new options for tech companies to report on government requests for information about their customers In response, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo withdrew their lawsuits against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court over the issue....

Google is making Glass more accessible to consumers who need to wear prescription glasses or prefer to wear their Glass with shades Its new Titanium Collection of frames can accommodate prescription lenses. There are four new styles of frames in the collection: Bold, Curve (pictured below), Thin and Split.

Don't get angry, but U.S. and British intelligence agencies have long been mining data from smartphone apps such as the wildly popular Angry Birds....