Author: Rob Pegoraro, Special for USA TODAY

Cable operators can beat the rates of the big four wireless carriers. But these offerings also come with gotchas of their own.

Like Apple’s Safari, Firefox’s tracking prevention stops ad networks from identifying your browser with cookies that follow you across the internet.

Facebook gets more heat as conference speakers take it to task for its vast influence and inability to address such persistent problems as fake users.

The steady march of TV cord cutting (plus continued inflation in programming costs) has led some smaller cable operators to stop fighting this trend.

A phone number can mean much more when it’s stored on Facebook’s servers– even if you only provided it to help secure your account.

Economically priced smartphones on display at the MWC Barcelona did not make big news, but they should be a good news for customers.

One of the bigger developments in TV tech at CES, 8K televisions, shows the downside of focusing on what you can build instead of what you should.

Android users now have two new ways to read and write their text messages on their larger screens — one from Google and the other from Microsoft.

For those living between device ecosystems — like iOS and Android or Mac and Microsoft, the question of which cloud service to use can be complicated.