Apple have revealed conservations you have with voice assistant Siri will be kept for up to two years. The announcement comes just days after questions were raised over users' privacy rights. More...

Apple has won a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung which clears them of unlawfully using Samsung technology related processing and transmitting data on 3G networks. More...

Preserving a backup from your Android handset can be a wise idea, though it has been one that has long required root access. While not the first to avoid this, SAB claims to be able to avoid rooting. More...

Virgin Media has completely overhauled its pay-as-you-go offerings in the UK, with unlimited data available for your smartphone from £10 a month, which also includes £10 of airtime and 300 texts. More...

For users who lost access to files at the time of Megaupload's shutdown, there may yet be some hope that they can retrieve their data from the petabytes of data still available to the server's hosts. More...

Following reports that data usage for Verizon users on devices using iOS 6 was higher than normal, the question being asked by Australian iPhone users experiencing the same issue is: Who should pay? More...

Microsoft has announced that it has invested in Klout and that Bing will begin using the social services data with its search results. Bing loves social and with Klout, search is getting its social on More...

Microsoft has just gone on stage at NA TechEd and has stated that Bing is comprised of nearly 300 petabytes of data and also reiterated that it is running on Sever 2012 RC. More...

In a strange move, the FBI has taken Kim Dotcom's data outside of New Zealand without the knowledge of the court and sent it back to the US, despite an order stating it was to remain in the country. More...

A newly revealed patent application from Microsoft shows that the company has developed a way to transfer apps and data from one phone to another, even if that phone uses another operating system. More...

If you have plans to travel abroad and want to use a little bit of data on your journey, Verizon has lowered the cost of its data roaming package, and made it all a bit easier to understand. More...

A survey finds that just under half of employees would have no problem selling their work login details for a paltry sum, with many placing a far higher value on their personal Facebook passwords. More...

Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard have reported that a data breach at a US-based processor has recently occurred and may have exposed up to 10 million credit card numbers. More...

Digital Playground, one of the most popular pornography sites on the web, was hacked today. Over 40,000 credit card numbers and 72,000 usernames and passwords were stolen. More...

A major technology security report reveals that the most common passwords used in business environments contain the word 'password', with weak passwords being blamed for 29% of security breaches. More...

The CEO of the 'giffgaff' network reveals that the carrier is reviewing the 'sustainability' of its low-cost unlimited mobile data packages, as user demand for multimedia on the move soars. More...

YouPorn has accidently exposed the user names and passwords of more than one million accounts. The information was stored on a public facing server that is now offline. More...

A mobile network set out to prove that its data packages are truly unlimited, by encouraging its users to download as much data as possible, with one user downloading 419GB over 3G in a single week. More...

T-Mobile's new price plans offer unlimited voice calls, text messages and mobile data, including free tethering. But will these tariffs spread from the UK to Europe and the US - and is there a catch? More...

Verizon has responded and fixed the issue affecting its 3G and 4G data users that started last night. More...

Credit card numbers, passwords, and Social Security Numbers are amongst the confidential data comScore is accused of siphoning via spyware-like software installed by users. More...

Google has admitted that they have also passed on European user data to United States intelligence agencies, much in the same way that Microsoft have been compelled to do in the past. More...

Mobile coverage is a major issue for any consumer. Of course, the concerns of any phone buyer these days tend to veer first towards which handset to buy, and how much your calls and data... More...

Microsoft SharePoint is a tool that is used by many individuals every day and helps those who need to collaborate on projects or bring their ideas to a central location. Microsoft is announcing today that... More...

A few months ago, T-Mobile customers were furious when the company drastically reduced its fair usage policy on handset data packages, from 1GB or 3GB, down to a feeble 500MB (although existing customers were later... More...

Apple has been on the receiving end of criticism lately over its handling of location data. But Apple appears to be pushing ahead with new creative ways to use its own location database and crowd-sourced... More...

The fastest data transfer speed through a single laser has been beaten, according to a new report released. Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have achieved a blistering speed of up to 26 terabits... More...

It was only a few days ago that AT&T instituted the data caps on their broadband connections, but speaking on the situation, AT&T's Mark Siegel proclaimed that it is what the end user had asked... More...

As AT&T begins capping Internet usage today, customers of the second largest US broadband provider will finally get a taste of the Net Neutrality wars. The limits are 150GB for DSL users and 250GB for... More...

Apple has come under heavy scrutiny lately over their iPhone and iPad tracing peoples locations. The iPhone and iPad were both saving your location to a database within the phone; saving information like GPS location... More...

As more well-known corporations and brands send out emails warning users that their email addresses may have been compromised as part of a security breach at Texas-based marketing firm Epsilon, many are wondering what the... More...

Vodafone UK users were suddenly cut off from all data services today. According to a Vodafone forum post, the loss of service wasn’t a technical failure; it was an old-school physical break-in. The target wasn’t... More...

Intel has unveiled their latest hardware addition to computers, dubbed Thunderbolt. Some of you may know it as "Light Peak", which can transfer data between two computers at blazing fast speeds. Thunderbolt can handle up to... More...

Just when you thought you were finally getting used to 802.11n Wi-Fi, those rascals at the IEEE are at it again, this time adding another letter to the now almost ubiquitous Wi-Fi certification symbols. This... More...

According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index concerning mobile data across the globe, there was 2.6 times more traffic in 2010 over 2009. All of this data came out to be roughly 237 petabytes per month,... More...

Verizon is in a reliability and efficiency war with AT&T right now. While it used to be a given that AT&T’s GSM network had nothing on Verizon, and blame was typically placed squarely on the... More...

In the continued investigation of the mysterious Windows Phone 7 phantom data usage, Rafael Rivera has managed to beat Microsoft to the punch and proclaim Yahoo email as the culprit. The mysterious 'phantom' data appeared... More...

The Verizon iPhone is only days away from being officially available across America, and much like other products that near a release date, the catches begin to roll in. When Verizon announced the iPhone will be... More...

The Windows Phone 7 'phantom' data has been something of a mystery, but with Microsoft giving their diagnoses that it appears to be third-party software as being the source of the problem, Rafael Rivera took... More...

As previously reported here on Neowin last week, Microsoft launched an investigation into reports that its Windows Phone 7 operating system was sending and receving data without the knowledge or consent of the user. Now BBC... More...

Some Windows Phone 7 users are reporting that their new mobile device is using data without their knowledge. Some reports that the 'phantom' data is sharing up to 2-5MB per hour, and in some extreme... More...

Google just launched an enormous volley in the war of the data kings. Facebook and Google have been gearing up for war for a long time now, and Facebook’s alliance with Microsoft and Bing was... More...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, spoke today at an event at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA. He explained what the company has been working on over the summer during their "intense" employee lockdown period.... More...

Virgin Media today announced a free upgrade for its broadband customers. Calling it an 'adrenaline shot', Virgin is aiming to boost upload speeds for customers across its range of broadband speeds. The upgrade has begun to... More...

Twitter analytics lead, Kevin Weil, spoke recently at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York and revealed some interesting information about Twitter and its infrastructure. Weil said that all of tweets, which are limited to just... More...

Despite the fact that the Droid X has been suffering from screen issues, Verizon has stated that Droid X users are swallowing up five times the data when compared to other devices. Neowin reported... More...

Rumors have been circulating that Verizon is about to take unlimited data out back and bury it next to Spike by the big Oak tree. But now it seems that it’s all but a... More...

Verizon may be looking to follow AT&T's lead with their tiered data pricing. While it is true that Verizon does not technically offer unlimited data (their plans are capped at 5 gigabytes per month),... More...

UK network provider O2 has followed in the footsteps of their American counterparts by scrapping unlimited data plans for the new iPhone 4. With the release of the next iPhone looming, O2 has announced its new... More...