I am most definitely a devotee of the social-networking message service . (Explaining Twitter's appeal is the topic of another story, one I haven't written yet.) But if you use Twitter, and especially if you use The Iconfactory's (free with ads, US$15 without) you might be interested in discovering some of the program's hidden features. …mehr
A group of U.S. companies, led by technology giants Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and eBay, is set to outline recommendations for new federal data-privacy legislation that could make life easier for consumers and lead to a standard federal breach-notification law. …mehr
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company. …mehr
Yahoo's Briefcase online storage service, which soldiered on for almost 10 years with a distinctly Web 1.0 capacity of 30MB, is finally being shut down. …mehr
A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, according to a blogger who follows Microsoft closely. …mehr
The anti-piracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game on Thursday was also implicated in a 2007 bug that was allowing hackers to take control of Windows PCs. …mehr
Human error caused a glitch that returned the message "this site may harm your computer" for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morning, the company said, but the mistake was Google's and not StopBadware.org's. …mehr
A glitch that apparently occurred in Google's "Stop Badware" program led to what called a "self-inflicted denial of service" Saturday morning, with all search results warning "this site may be harmful to your computer." …mehr
Human error caused a glitch that returned the message "this site may harm your computer" for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morning, the company said. …mehr
