New tablet leaves warehouse a week after U.S., Canadian orders, but biggest iMac now shows January ship date.

Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.

Only Edubuntu and Kubuntu users get true alpha releases in this development cycle.

Apple's planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are potentially cost competitive with those it now makes in China.

Google is granting US$23 million to seven not-for-profit organisations to support technology innovations that are "changing the world", the company said.

Anonymous is planning to launch a cyberattack this weekend against the website of the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency holding a meeting of 190 governments to discuss political and commercial control of the Internet, a security firm says.

The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else.

HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy.

A 30-day download window is added for rental content and a looser restriction put on iTunes Match.

A new algorithm that analyzes speech could one day enable smartphones to sense your mood. Who knows, maybe it could even prevent you from saying something you'll regret.

As 2012 comes to a close, the ERP software market's biggest players, Oracle and SAP, are seeing their long rivalry become a stalemate, while they face a common set of enemies in the form of upstart ERP vendors based in the cloud, such as NetSuite and Workday.

Tablets and smartphones turn to instant messaging.

Fans of the original video game blockbuster, table tennis classic Pong, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday.

BufferBox operates a network of storage lockers where people can receive deliveries when they're not home.

Autofill and password caching valued as much as privacy.

Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Cariden Technologies, a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of network planning, design and traffic management software for service providers.

The DNS records for the affected domain names were modified, suggesting a possible security breach at the .ro registry.

Redshift could cut the costs of data warehouse deployments, Amazon claims.

Shifts Galaxy Note II to sellers rather than end-users.

Multiple reports call Monday biggest online spending day ever.