The U. S. law enforcement agencies made more than 11,000 requests for information or content data of users of Microsoft's various products in 2012, the software giant revealed in its Law Enforcement Disclosure Report.

BlackBerry has a long way to go to earn laurels back, the struggling smartphone manufacturer's chief executive Thorsten Heins admitted.

In a recent phone interview, Heins candidly admitted that BlackBerry has second-class status when it comes to the pecking order of smartphones.

Tech giant Google has announced the release of a new application programming interface, called Google Drive Realtime API, to allow developers to implement real-time collaboration in Google Drive apps.

Publisher Deep Silver has announced that Saints Row 4 – the fourth official incarnation of the ever-crazy Saints Row series – will hit stores on August 20 this year.

A worldwide release for the fourth incarnation of the popular series is pegged for August 23.

British inventor Sir James Dyson has claimed that the company's new Airblade Tap, which blows cold air at a speed of 450 miles per hour over the hands to dry them, would make huge cost as well as environmental savings.

As per Sir Dyson's claims, the new tap system that has inbuilt air dryers is a green as well as comparatively less expensive solution to scrape hands dry.

A London court on Thursday sent two Anonymous hackers behind the bars for carrying out cyber attacks on the websites of several companies, including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal.

Ashley Rhodes, 28, received a seven-month sentence; while 22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead will spend eighteen months behind the bars.

With Apple having decided to give a miss to the near field communication (NFC) technology in its newly-unveiled sixth-generation iPhone – the iPhone 5 – which is scheduled to hit the markets on September 21, a number of mobile payment experts are of the opinion that Apple’s ‘no NFC’ decision for iPhone 5 might not be regrettable, at least in the near future, because of the slow rollout of the technology.