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Six years ago, it was the first major tech company with a voice assistant.

With the rise of LG, Hitachi among others in the home electronics appliances market, some who only knew of Panasonic only as a TV manufacturer have possibly thought it had been long kicked out of business.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology companies - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among them.

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone vendor, is all set to launch the successor to the Mi Note 2, dubbed - Mi Note 3 later this year.

Google is planning to track billions of credit and debit card sales to compare online ad clicks with money spent offline.

Today the largest social media platform on earth with over one billion users, Facebook, epitomizes everything that one hears over folktales of the American Dream.  

A massive ransomware campaign appears to have infected a number of organisations around the world.

Every organization conducts its activities everyday deliberately avoiding internal as well as external threats to it business.

The man who created what is believed to be the world's largest website dealing in images of child sexual abuse has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.

Microsoft has unveiled a new Surface laptop to compete with the Macbook Air.

General Electric Co (GE.N) said on Wednesday it is fixing a bug in software used to control the flow of electricity in a utility's power systems after researchers found that hackers could shut down parts of an electric grid.

Presently the leading online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is more or less a household name today when it comes to quick reference for organized information on about anything. Now the man behind that brand, is shifting his attention to a new area: news service.

The idea of smart phones, smart banking famously referred to as ‘internet banking’, among others has been one that could certainly be described as revolutionary.

One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died.

While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, he instigated the creation of Arpanet - a computer network that initially linked together four US research centres, and later evolved into the internet.

An ICT social enterprise, Simon Mustard that teaches kids between the ages of 5 to 16 years old computerized tech related skills will be organising a coding boot camp this Easter.

Few issues have dominated the business and political environment in recent times like cyber-attacks or as many would consider it, cyber breaches. Stories of power cuts in Ukraine, the alleged US election data breaches by Russia, the WikiLeaks fiasco, and a similar claim of hack into Ghana’s Electoral Commission’s site at the heat of the December 2016 elections.

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer following US allegations of large-scale hacking.

U.S. pedestrian deaths rose sharply for the second year in a row in 2016, according to a study released on Thursday, a trend experts said mirrors increased driver cellphone use and distracted driving.

The organizers of two privacy campaigns say they plan to buy, then sell, the internet browsing histories of some of America's best-known politicians.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change.

Over the past couple of weeks, there have been intense battle in and out of courtrooms against what might well be regarded as one of the most controversial decisions in US Presidential history: a travel ban that shuts out eight countries tagged as potential threats to the United States national security.

Over the past one month, he has been at the fore-front of the resistance against President Trump’s travel ban by corporate leaders but the latest announcement to hand over the leadership of the transportation network giant - Uber after merely six months on the job, was “completely unexpected”.

The Snapchatification of everything has resulted in backlash for WhatsApp, prompting it to revive its text Status option while keeping its image-based replacement.

Silicon Valley marked its favorite math holiday by protesting President Donald Trump.

It may no more be news for most of us who have been around or more so, participated either as producers or users of mobile technology, particularly in communication: the thought of an infrared in the late 1990s straight into the new millennium when we began to replace that with the Bluetooth among others.

There are few people with computer science backgrounds who work in the federal government. Long hours coupled with smaller salaries make it hard to recruit techies to Washington, according to Representative Ruben Gallego.

Technology firms will get "exclusive access" to details of the CIA's cyber-warfare programme, Wikileaks has said.

Several of the tech firms whose products have been allegedly compromised by the CIA have given their first reactions to the claims.

Most users of personal computers enjoy the opportunity to upgrade their apps on a regular basis but the idea of those updates running automatically once the system is connected to the internet could be quite offensive.