The U.S. State Department has denied asking other countries to open criminal investigations into Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.

CIOs are kicking off their Windows 7 deployment plans as they prepare to finally say farewell to Windows XP, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Jury.

Many people have blamed the iPhone 4 "death grip" issue on U.S. AT&T. But testing in Australia showed otherwise.

Mobile Internet penetration continues to gain foothold as an increasing number of users around the world take to its convenience despite concerns over privacy and data security.

One of former HP CEO Mark Hurd's closest aides, and a person connected to the hiring of the marketing contractor whose sexual harassment claim led to Hurd's resignation, resigned from HP this week.

Managing virtual and cloud workloads according to a few key attributes ensures that the full value of virtualization and cloud computing is realized, says Novell's Richard Whitehead.

Misconceptions over issues such as price and complexity have kept video chat from taking off, say Paltalk.com's Jason Katz.

Security experts warned about a Trojan targeting Android-based mobile devices that racks up charges by sending text messages to premium-rate numbers.

63 percent of computer users deem country-to-country cyber-espionage to be an acceptable act, according to a new report.

Regulators from the European Union are getting involved in the Federal Trade Commission investigation of Apple's business strategies according to a report.

South Korean police search Google offices to see if the Web giant illegally collected user data while prepping to launch its Street View service.

In an apparent attempt to reverse the effects of Apple's long-running Mac versus PC campaign, Microsoft launches a site that suggests among other things that PCs are more fun.

Bill Gates says that it is gratifying to see the computer industry that he helped start turn some of its attention to broader societal challenges.

Stephen Hawking says he's an optimist. Perhaps theoretical physicists have an idiosyncratic definition of the word.

Google's trying to hit Facebook where it hurts, and Facebook is snapping up patents that may make Google's social-media aims harder to achieve.

Here's how an attacker could get an iPhone user to visit a malicious Web page in order to exploit a new hole in the device's browser, researchers say.

Teens in particular are turning to an app that assigns a real phone number and turns their iPod into a free texting device. Should carriers be worried?

The U.S. Defense Department formally demands that Wikileaks return all classified military records, and leaves open what might happen to the group's principals if they refuse.

Country's telecommunications commission orders cell phone service providers to suspend service to the RIM handsets on Friday.

A criminal gang has stolen over 60GB of data using a botnet that has infected around 55,000 computers around the world, according to a report.