A human rights group on Wednesday cried foul over recent moves of the Chinese Internet regulators, who want to reduce the anonymity among online users in mainland China. State Council Information Office director Wang Chen, in his address to the national legislature in April, has called for the extensive... 

A group technology experts and volunteers has released on Thursday a new version of the popular open-source blogging website WordPress. Dubbed as WordPress version 3.0, the new software hosts more than 2, 700 upgrades, which include 1, 217 bugs fix. At least 218 volunteers have provided the software... 

In a bid to attract more consumers to its doors, the world’s largest coffee chain Starbucks Corp. announced on Monday that it will be offering unlimited use of wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) in all company-operated stores starting July 1. Starbucks hopes to take back lucrative share of the restaurant... 

The Pakistani government blocked on Friday some 800 websites and webpages that have been identified to contain “blasphemous” materials, a Pakistan official reported Following the ban of popular social networking sites like Facebook, Youtube, and MySpace, the Pakitan Telecommunications Authority (PTA)... 

The United States, European Union and the rest of the global community have asked China to drop or temporarily suspend the deadline to technology companies to enable them to finish computer encryption and other security programs that will be used in country’s “Green Dam” policy. The US and EU has... 

A new study by media watchdog Ofcom showed that the number of children, aged 12 years old and below, who have Facebook and other social networking accounts increased in the past couple of years. According to the report, many of these children have ignored the age restrictions by the social networking... 

A United States District Court sentenced a 28-year-old computer hacker to 20 years in prison after pleading “guilty” to charges of orchestrating one of the largest credit and debit card data theft in history. US District Judge Patti Saris, in his order, said that Albert Gonzalez will spend 15 to... 

World’s largest online search engine Google Inc has ended four years of censoring to China’s Internet searches when it finally pulled the plug to the mainland on Monday. But despite the parting of ways with the Chinese government, Google said that it will still maintain other operations in the country. Many... 

Seattle: Microsoft Bing has gained strength after the number of online consumers using the search engine tool has significantly increased in February, according to a research group. The Nielsen Co. on Tuesday said Bing currently ranks in the third position as the most used search engine tools in US,... 

Beijing: After Google Inc. has threatened China that it will stop its operation in the country, the government on Tuesday warned the technology giant to continue filtering its search engine results or face “consequences”. In a press conference, Commerce Ministry spokesman Yao Jian said that Google...