Company says developers who artificially manipulate App Store rankings or work with third parties to do so will have their Apple Developer Program membership revoked.

Apple's FileVault 2 whole-disk encryption can be unencrypted within an hour, according to encryption and password-recovery company Passware.

The Web-hosting service and domain name registrar sends a heads-up e-mail to customers, saying their FTP passwords may have been accessed by hackers. It also asks them to change e-mail passwords, though it says those passwords weren't affected by any breach.

For the third year in a row, Julius Genachowski sounds an alarm over government failure to provide much-needed new spectrum for mobile broadband users. A solution seems closer, but only just barely.

With almost 100 new tablets debuting at CES this week, OpSec Security is warning potential buyers to be on the lookout for fakes being sold on certain Web sites.

Ontario's environmental watchdog is taking the Liberal government to task for not having a strategy to stem a continuing decline in the province's species and natural spaces.

Motorola said its sales estimates for the fourth quarter of 2011 are below expectations as it deals with patent legal woes and increased competition.

Adobe to issue fix by next week for critical hole in Reader and Acrobat that could allow an attacker to take control of the system.

The United Nations' first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources says a quarter of all land is highly degraded, jeopardizing its ability to feed the world's growing population.

The UN's top climate official said Sunday she expects governments to make a long-delayed decision on whether industrial countries should make further commitments to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases.

This year's food shortages and famine are a sign of what's to come if the world doesn't get climate change under control, Oxfam warns.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report Friday on the risks posed by extreme weather events that are becoming increasingly frequent around the world. We talk to one of the authors about the findings and their implications for Canada.