Despite public concerns from Congress members and European data protection authorities, Google isn't going to slow or stop its march to whittle its product privacy policies down into one big umbrella policy.

By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Apple's lawsuit against Samsung in Australia expanded Friday from three claims of patent infringement claims to 278, according to reports.

Mars is too dry a planet to host any form of life, British scientists have concluded. An analysis of soil, collected during 2008 NASA Phoenix mission to Mars, by Imperial College London has revealed the Red Planet has experienced a 600 million year ...

The image Steve Appleton cultivated as a stunt pilot and off-road rally driver became the perfect metaphor for his wild, 18-year ride as the leader of Micron Technology Inc., where stomach-churning swings from billion-dollar profit to billion-dollar ...

By Ian Sherr and Harriet Torry Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Some of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) mobile devices were briefly unavailable for sale in Germany on Friday, as part of ongoing patent arguments with Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

By Sara Yin Yesterday Google announced a significant-sounding effort to secure the Android Market, Google Bouncer. Bouncer scans existing and future apps in the Android Market for malware.

By Maureen Farrell @CNNMoneyMarkets February 3, 2012: 1:23 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook has played a big role in the private trading markets that allow eligible investors the chance to snap up shares of hot Internet companies years before they ...

A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious US colleagues -- and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown.

(Please note strong language in fifth paragraph) By Jonathan Standing TAIPEI (Reuters) - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs ...

By Damon Poeter The era of smartphones has officially arrived. More were shipped globally last year than client PCs for the first time ever, according to Canalys.

By Wired UK By Mark Brown, Wired UK Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous “Blue Marble” image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high-resolution photograph of our watery world.

by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find.

Mozilla's Firefox 10 is relatively light on new user features, but includes a variety of new tools for developers, particularly those creating multimedia experiences.

A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side - a view people on Earth never see.

By Damon Poeter Someone in Cupertino appears to have noticed the outcry over the user agreement for Apple's iBooks Author software.