Microsoft will unpack the technical details of Windows Phone 7 at next week's annual MIX development conference. Here are the company's priorities for the its retooled mobile platform.

The Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Broadband Test is drawing criticism from skeptics who are calling it too simplistic and inaccurate to yield useful data.

A former Barclays Bank programmer who helped launder money for the mastermind behind the data thefts at TJX Companies Inc. and other retailers, was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal court in Boston.

It's finally iPad pre-order day, but remember: Apple's not alone in the tablet game. Since the iPad announcement in January, other companies have been hyping tablets of their own, pointing out what they have that Apple doesn't. (See "Tablets Steal the Show at CES" for a showcase.) Before pulling the trigger on an iPad, at least consider these alternatives:

According to the FBI and the IC3 Web site, the “popular scam trends for 2009” included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software.

The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain.

Several security executives today expressed surprise over the firing of Pennsylvanias chief information security officer, apparently for publicly speaking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system without getting the required approvals first.

IBM says it is the No. 1 technology employer in the U.S. and the world, but as time moves on it may be harder to tell just what is happening to its domestic workforce.

Apple's iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of its iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to one of many rumors surfacing as interest in what's next for the iPhone mounts.

The latest version of ZeuS botnet toolkit includes a $10,000 module that can let attackers take complete control of a compromised PC.

Maybe iPhone users aren’t wasting countless hours at work fiddling with their smartphone apps after all.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson's stock awards fell 8% in 2009, but he earned a cash bonus of $5.85 million that helped increase his total compensation by 35%.

Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of extinction.

Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage.

Senior Vice President Marc Randall left Brocade following disappointing first quarter sales of Ethernet switches.

You floss daily, rotate your tires regularly, file your taxes on time, and exercise at least twice a week. In other words, you have lots of good habits. But when it comes to technology, well, we need to talk. You know all the icons cluttering your desktop, and the passwords you keep in Notepad, and the half-baked backup you make once a month? Those are the results of bad habits--and they're not the only ones.

The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain.

Mobile phones have become unquestionably valuable tools, yet our devices can literally transform us into some pretty darn strange characters--often without our knowledge.

While detractors say the ISS is a costly lab that may never see a great return on investment, building the ISS has cost NASA $48.5 billion, the leaders of the ISS agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan recently to reaffirm its value.