The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it is seeking ways to reassign additional wireless spectrum to foster mobile broadband adoption in the U.S. According to its study released Tuesday, 93 million Americans, representing one-third of the nation’s population, do not have high-speed Web connections in their homes.

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U.S. Web giant Google on Tuesday defended its Street View application — a compendium of photographed city streets — from privacy concerns in Germany, where criticism of the company has mounted.

Minister Ilse Aigner, who is responsible for consumer affairs, again accused the U.S. company of privacy invasion by photographing Germans̵…

In recent weeks, Google has made much of its problems with China. But it turns out the company has a much bigger problem with Italy.

In what Google called an “astonishing decision,” an Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy invasion for a 2006 video of Italian teenagers taunting and abusing a boy with Downs syndrom…

First Google, and now Intel. The chipmaker has revealed that its servers were hacked in January, around the same date search giant Google and 24 other companies reported a highly sophisticated defense breach. And Intel says such attempts happen regularly.

News of the Intel breach was restricted in the company’s most recent financial filing, …

China’s technology ministry moved to tighten controls on World Wide Web use Tuesday, saying individuals who want to operate Web sites must first meet in person with regulators.

The state-sanctioned group that registers domain names in China froze registrations for new individual Web sites in December after state media complained that not ade…

Although Windows 7 has been out for some moment, many are just now thinking about upgrading. And that’s when the questions start. The existence of multiple editions, different upgrade options, restrictions on how a PC may be upgraded, the packaging of 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the operating system in the same box, and volume pricing are s…

Mobile-phone sales worldwide headed up at the end of last year, according to a new report from industry research firm Gartner. Sales in the fourth quarter posted a 8.3 percent increase compared to a year ago, although overall 2009 sales dropped 0.9 percent.

Gartner said the drivers pushing up sales are smartphones and low-end devices. Smartphone s…