Philippine police say they used Twitter and Facebook to track down a flamboyant gang of young men and women who robbed the rich to feed their drug habits.

Security experts say that banning BlackBerry data service in the UAE smacks of political backlash and could be a testament to how hard it is to snoop on that network.

Motorola is teaming up with Verizon Wireless to develop a digital tablet device that would rival Apple's iPad, the Financial Times has reported.

Sharp plans to take on Apple's iPhone by the end of the year, with the international launch of a smartphone featuring a 3D panel that can be viewed without special glasses, says a spokesperson.

Allan Jackson is rubbing his hands in glee as he decides what to do with his extra gigs after Telkom announced a new pricing deal for ADSL customers.

Google is spoiling for a fight with Facebook over the fast-growing market for online games, part of the search engine giant's latest attempt to build a social networking business.

It's difficult to imagine how Mark Zuckerberg will be portrayed among the pantheon of "global revolutionaries" who have left a lasting impression on world culture.

The Saudi telecom watchdog says that telecom companies in the kingdom must block an unspecified Blackberry service as of Friday.

With smartphones boasting apps to do everything from finding convenient restaurants to identifying stars in the night sky, developers were bound to make programs that bring age-old religious practices into the digital world.

A hacker has brought cellphone snooping to the modestly financed, showing how to build a call-catching system for about R10 500.

A hacker has brought cellphone snooping to the modestly financed, showing how to build a call-catching system for about R10 500.

Hewlett Packard has announced it had negotiated a deal with US prosecutors to settle charges that it paid kickbacks to spur sales of its computer gear to government agencies.

Bulgarian police have shut down four popular torrent websites in its largest ever action against Internet piracy, says the international recording industry association IFPI.

Microsoft has released an emergency patch for a "critical" crack in Windows operating system software that could let hackers take control of computers over the Internet.

Microsoft has released an emergency patch for a "critical" crack in Windows operating system software that could let hackers take control of computers over the Internet.

A Google question-and-answer page for Chinese users has become inaccessible from mainland China.

Cell C and Research In Motion have announced the availability of the BlackBerry solution for Cell C customers in South Africa.

Cell C and Research In Motion have announced the availability of the BlackBerry solution for Cell C customers in South Africa.

Kuwait has asked BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to block pornographic sites, although it will not suspend services like other Gulf states have threatened to do.

A marketing stunt launched in Brazil to track some buyers of a washing powder, through a GPS chip hidden in the box for a prize giveaway, risked backfiring with observers raising privacy concerns.