When a television show is consistently popular, its reward usually isn't getting canceled. But that is what happened to "Longmire" on the A&E cable channel, which was unceremoniously dumped after three seasons.

Many mobile apps request too many permissions and don't explain how they collect users' personal information, a study of 1,211 popular apps by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network has found.

The majority of the apps reviewed did not adequately explain to users how they were collecting and using information, according to the study, carried out by 26 privacy enforcement authorities in 19 countries. It also found that a third of the tested mobile applications requested excessive permissions that were outside the scope of their functionality. Reviewers found that almost one in three tested apps provided no privacy information other than permission requests. An additional 24 percent provided some information, but didn't explain how the information is collected, used and disclosed.

Devices wirelessly connected to the Internet will help boost the economy by $547 billion by 2017, according to new analysis from a pro-Wi-Fi organization. The WifiForward study shows a dramatic increase in people’s use of wireless Internet and could add ammunition to the arguments of people looking to free up more space for the devices.

[Commentary] How do we explain the absence of high-level women in the technology business? The answers, from new social science research, may surprise you.

Talented women run into land mines that make it hard for them to move up the corporate ladder in tech. Too often, the bias is invisible to everyone. It’s not that companies are trying to discriminate. It’s that the old scripts that both men and women unwittingly follow still have amazing power. New York University psychology professor Madeline Heilman and University of Massachusetts – Amherst’s Michelle Haynes have shown that credit for a team’s successful performance is far more often given to the male than the female. Female members are seen as less competent, less influential and less likely to have played a leadership role in the job at hand. Both men and women fall into the trap of giving higher marks to the male team member. A woman’s performance has to be at the top 20th percentile, and, in many cases, in the top 10th percentile, to be viewed on par with the average man’s performance.