The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from company accounts. The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that sided with California police officers who complained... 

Over the next decade, systems that track and record our movement through physical space will be woven inextricably into everyday life. Already we operate some location-based systems: dashboard navigation systems, smartphones with GPS features, and electronic... 

A catastrophic data loss by Danger, Inc who provide data services for T-Mobile SideKick users shows just how dangerous it can be to rely on others to keep your data safe. See original here: Danger Danger: the Great SideKick Disaster?  Read More →

In contrast to other research indicating that mobile phone owners don’t tend to click on mobile ads, Compete’s research indicates that 30 percent of smartphone owners are either comfortable or very comfortable receiving targeted … Killer... 

The Internet makes it possible to check our bank balances at midnight or talk to a friend across the globe via Twitter. But the explosion in high-tech tools also means we need a passel of passwords — and strong ones at that, because hackers get... 

Spam accounts for more than 90 percent of e-mail. And now, cell phones are getting spam. You can banish most of it. Use a Good E-Mail Filter Filters kill spam before it hits your inbox. Good spam filters use Bayesian filters that improve as you use them.... 

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever... 

SIM Watch: If someone removes the SIM from your Smartphone , the device is automatically blocked and if a new SIM is inserted, SIM Watch will immediately send you a message with the phone’s new number. … Kaspersky Mobile Security runs on Smartphones... 

The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker, called Phorm, from watching how users surf the web. They also warned that they could force social... 

The millions of people who use their cell phones daily to play games, download applications and browse the Web may not realize that they have unseen companions: advertisers who can track their interests, their habits and even their location. Smartphones,... 

Mohamed Shommo, an engineer for Cisco Systems Inc., travels overseas several times a year for work, so he is accustomed to opening his bags for border inspections upon returning to the U.S. But in recent years, these inspections have gone much deeper... 

Verizon Wireless has apologized to President-Elect Barack Obama after several employees took a peek at his cell-phone records, but privacy advocates say what happened to Obama is just an example of what is happening to thousands of Americans. Verizon,...