Foreign-made devices or even parts are sometimes deliberately infected with spyware and malware, official says.

As the U.S. Army ponders how to give every soldier a smartphone loaded with apps for military purposes -- and be able to support global communications not only with commercial cellular networks like Sprint, Verizon or AT&T -- it is also exploring how it can quickly set up its own wireless network almost anywhere in the world.

The city of Chongqing wants to build an IT hub free of China's Internet censorship.

About 3,400 of the 360,000 compromised credit card accounts were hit with fraud.

The carrier wants to change frequencies to prevent interference with GPS.

Nokia's new N9 smartphone with MeeGo will launch later this year.

The company's most popular product, Shell Control Box, an activity monitoring tool for privileged access, contributed with a 187 percent revenue growth.

The feature preloads pages Google believes users will click on from its search results.

AMD says its new A-Series Fusion chips are geared towards gaming, video playback and other 'visual' computing tasks.

Avaya is going public again, filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering worth $1 billion.

IBM hopes to help companies more efficiently use their high-performance computing resources with new software that links separate pools of resources into a single private cloud.

Apple on Monday gave users their first glimpse at iOS 5, the next iteration of the company's mobile operating system for iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. During the keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple senior vice president Scott Forstall covered 10 new features out of the 200 planned for iOS 5. With iOS 5, Apple introduces a couple brand new apps, revamps many, rethinks notifications, and finally severs the cord between iOS and the Mac.

In a rare display of collaboration, Google has joined forces with its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in a project intended to improve the Web crawling and indexing of structured data, which often originates in databases and loses its format when converted into HTML.

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday broke its silence around its tablet strategy, announcing its first low-power chip designed for these devices.

Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote an open-source virtualization platform -- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) -- as an alternative to VMware.

The tech world is abuzz again with worries about shortages of popular products, this time because of an explosion at a Chinese factory that killed two people.

SAP is preparing to release a major revamp of its software for EPM (enterprise performance management), a subset of BI (business intelligence) that focuses on areas such as budgeting, planning and compliance, the company announced Monday in conjunction with the annual Sapphire conference in Orlando.

A U.S. court's antitrust oversight of Microsoft is ending after eight and a half years, with some observers questioning what the long fight accomplished.

Google gave Android developers several reasons to cheer on Tuesday with its announcement of new versions of the operating system, as well as the addition of music and movies to the Android Market.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble told analysts that it expects to announce on May 24 the launch of a new e-reader device, suggesting that the company may be moving further in its strategy to combine its e-reader with tablet PC functionality.