Nearly a couple of years after Kim Dotcom, founder of file hosting service Mega, first unveiled his company's plans to offer an encrypted video-calling and chat service, the internet mogul has announced that the browser-based service will launch soon.

Game of Thrones is the 'most-pirated TV show of the year' for the third consecutive time. This according to estimates compiled by TorrentFreak, which says the HBO drama’s season finale was torrented 8.1 million times during 2014. The Walking Dead…

Apparently, the gamble Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) took by releasing The Interview online has paid off, as the company has revealed that the film, which was made at a budget of $44 million, grossed over $15 million in online sales…

China has long had complicated relationship with Google, and for the past six months, several of the company’s services have been experiencing disruption as a result of censorship believed to be related to the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square…

Just over a month after Aereo filed for Chapter 11 protection, a bankruptcy court in New York has granted the now-defunct video streaming service permission to sell off its TV streaming technology assets.

Social media has become an indispensable part of many people’s lives. The one trend that piqued our interest this year is social activism or “clicktivism”. I was recently asked to be a guest on a TV show to talk about social media, and thought I’d share some of the Q&A and my notes.

German astronaut Alexander Gerst recently returned from a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station. Between conducting various experiments in Lower Earth Orbit as part of his Blue Dot mission, the astronaut managed to capture 12,500 strategic images of our…

A US judge has denied Facebook’s request to dismiss a class action lawsuit accusing the company of violating its users’ privacy by scanning the content of their private Facebook messages for advertisement purposes.

Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, the online services for Microsoft's and Sony's game consoles, are experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

If nothing else, Sony Pictures is determined to mitigate the damage stemming from the attack on its computer systems last month. After reportedly launching a DDoS attack to slow the spread of stolen data shared on certain websites, we’re now…

Up until now, one of the main reasons people preferred Uber when traveling in groups was that the ridesharing service allowed passengers to split fares through its mobile app, a feature the company released back in July last year. But…

Google has released its latest transparency report, revealing that the company received a total of 3,105 government requests to remove 14,637 pieces of content between July and December 2013, down from the 3,846 the search giant received in the first…

Marcus “Notch” Persson captured headlines late last week by outbidding Jay-Z and Beyonce for the most expensive mansion ever sold in Beverly Hills. Unsurprisingly, it took the Minecraft community less than a week to recreate Notch’s new pad in the immensely…

Google search results continue to get smarter and smarter. Now, the world’s most popular search engine will display song lyrics right on the search results page courtesy of its ever-expanding Knowledge Graph.

Just days after the United States pointed the finger at North Korea for the Sony Pictures hack, the country’s connection to the Internet has gone cold.

Telecommunications giant Verizon has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that the agency cannot regulate paid interconnection deals like the one the company struck with Netflix earlier this year. In a filing to the FCC, Verizon’s vice president and associate general…

Following Sony Picture’s decision to cancel the Christmas release of upcoming film "The Interview," and the revelation that no major video on demand distributor is willing to distribute the movie as stated by the company's CEO, Michael Lynton, BitTorrent has offered to help. …

Just a couple of days after Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) pulled the release of its upcoming film, The Interview, President Barack Obama termed the move a “mistake”, although he said that he was sympathetic to the concerns that the studio…

Marcus “Notch” Persson, the creator of the wildly popular Minecraft, was already rich, but then he sold the game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. And now he’s outbidding some of the biggest celebrities on the planet for multi-million dollar mansions in…

Back in February this year, Google announced that it’s exploring the idea of expanding its high-speed fiber service to up to 34 cities in nine metro areas, saying that it will reveal its selections by the end of the year.…

Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram in 2012 may have seemed shocking at the time -- and indeed, it sparked talk of a new tech bubble. But as it turns out the deal is now looking like quite a bargain…

According to a recently released Department of Commerce report, fifty nine percent of the US population can get access to a 100Mbps or faster broadband connection, but only 8 percent can choose from two or more ISPs, while a meager 1 percent can…

ICANN has recently reported a major security breach. The organization, which is responsible for managing IP addresses (among other things) for the internet, was hacked late last month. 

Those living in New York can now get their Amazon deliveries even faster. The company today introduced a new service for Prime subscribers called Prime Now, which promises to deliver a range of daily essentials in select areas of Manhattan,…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has pulled the release of its upcoming film, The Interview, after reportedly confirming that the North Korean government was behind the recent hack attack that brought the company to a standstill.