Technology

Australia has announced a police investigation into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to probe the internet giant's "Street View" mapping service.

Want to talk more? Keep pedaling, says Nokia.

The Google search page has always been clean, uncluttered and... well, some might say a little boring. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Yahoo is hoping to turn on a new sharing option in its popular email service without upsetting users who prize their privacy.

When blogger Isaac Mao recently announced online an upcoming talk by a Beijing writer whose work is banned by the government, police showed up at his door at night to "convince" him to cancel the event. He agreed to, but just to be sure, authorities turned off the electricity of the planned meeting space and barred the doors.