In other privacy news, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity announced it will begin a three-year study, trying to harness "big data…

Back in 2008, Twitter advertising group Twitad, trademarked the word "tweet." It wasn't a big deal until people at Twitter realized what had…

NPD Group has released a new report that finds 91 percent of kids ages 2 to 17 play video games. That's 64 million people. And some of them are TWO…

CTIA, a wireless industry group, is out with its semi-annual report today showing that there are 327.6 million wireless subscribers (CTIA says…

Just when it looks like the wireless carriers are putting the squeeze on you, here comes T-Mobile. T-Mobile has this VoIP service called Bobsled -…

CNN ran a story by Micah Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, about the Obama campaign's data crunching strategy. Sifry says Obama's…

On Friday, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) – all members of…

Shocking, I know. Apple announced today over a million people ordered the new iPhone4S. That's almost twice as many people who preordered the…

How are you sleeping? Not so great? There's a new app called Zeo that's supposed to help with all that. It all starts with a headband. From Reuters…

Learn the word cybersettlements. It's what GE's Oil and Gas division is trying out to see if a computers can help the company settle legal disputes…