Author: Rob Pegoraro, Special for USA TODAY

An update to Mozilla Firefox shipped last week enhances your tracking protection.

Netflix accounts don’t really offer the selling potential stolen Facebook accounts do, but they still tempt a subset of hackers.

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.

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

What’s worse than carrying an adapter to use your old wired headphones with a new phone or tablet?

If that dongle turns out to only be decorative.

New TVs with Apple’s streaming video feature AirPlay built-in should make the connection easier. But that might not be so for pay-TV subscribers.

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.