Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software …
Michael Jackson mourners take to the Web, but don’t crush it
Yesterday's massive memorial service for Michael Jackson may have strained some social networking and news sites but it didn't cripple …
Yahoo enhances and broadens access to Search Pad tool
Yahoo will significantly expand the number of people who can test its Search Pad service, an online notebook for saving …
Videoconferencing hits the big time
It feels like 1989 all over again. Wacky haircuts are back (I think I saw a mullet the other day). …
Smartphone OS smackdown
Two and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years …
HTC puts new face on latest Google Android phone, Hero
Smartphone developer High Tech Computer (HTC) introduced a completely revamped user interface (UI) on its latest smartphone running Google Android …
Google adds Persian to machine translation service
As the Internet becomes a more important path for information between Iran and the rest of the world, Google has …
Search attracts innovation from established firms, startups
The search business has quickly become a hotbed of activity among a variety of companies in recent weeks. The new …
Social networks cutting into family time
Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are exploding in popularity, bringing people from all walks of life together online. At …
Google urged to beef up Gmail security
Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent …
With unrest in Iran, cyber-attacks begin
An apparently ad-hoc cyber protest against the results of recent Iranian elections has knocked key Web sites offline. On Monday, …
Identity gets lost in the cloud
With everyone seemingly caught up in cloud computing, I was struck by this quote from a CNN story: Microsoft's “newest …
Do business desktop PCs have a future?
With laptop shipments gaining momentum over the past few years the question arises: Are desktops on the verge of being …
HP designs new server for 'extreme' scale-out computing
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new line of x86 servers for companies that operate massive computing facilities, where shaving a few …
Google to reveal Apps enhancements
Expectations are running high for an event Google will hold to announce enhancements to the business-oriented Premier edition of its …
Palm Pre launch is high-stakes gamble
The launch day for the Palm Pre smartphone, will be a big day all around for Palm, struggling carrier Sprint …
Acer will use Moblin Linux across its products
The world's third-largest PC vendor plans to roll out the Moblin Linux operating system, championed by Intel, in its products, …
How to stay up in a down economy
It doesn't take a $250 visit to a psychotherapist to confirm what you feel in your gut each morning when …
Yahoo sets date for shutting down 360 social network
Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July, something it originally planned to do in early 2008 and …
Google Wave: A new kind of mega-application
Google Wave, an upcoming Web application that mixes old technologies like e-mail, IM and online documents in a unified, socially-oriented …