Twitter is in the midst of rolling out a new feature called Suggestions for You that offers up personalized recommendations of users that you might want to follow on the microblogging service. Youll find the new feature under the Find

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Hey, I participated in an insignificant way in this, the deal is that you have power, working with others in social media, time to use…

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Watch where you click Online con artists have developed a strain of scareware that poses as a Firefox update.

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Google said Thursday that its search engine was fully blocked in China, along with Google ads and mobile search. This is the first time that Google has been blocked since March, when it closed its search service in China and began automatically redirecting users to an uncensored search engine in Hong Kong after a standoff over censorship.

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The iPhone 4 has finally made it to these shores and for once the delay has been a good thing.

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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said tablet computers are a big issue for him as Apple Inc. seized the momentum in a category Microsoft has worked on for more than a decade.

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Facebook has made its first steps into the search market with the launch a servcie that allows users to quiz the site’s 500m members.

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Bespoke computing experiences promise a pipe dream of safety and beauty but the real delight lies in making your own choices The launch of the iPad and the general success of mobile device app stores has created a buzzword frenzy for “curated” computing computing experiences where software and wallpaper and attendant foofaraw for your device are hand-picked for your pleasure. In theory, this …

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Japans trade ministry asked Apple Inc. to report by Aug. 4 on measures the company will take to prevent a fire hazard the ministry said is related to the iPod Nano portable music player.

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Google Inc. was sued over claims its collection of data via Wi-Fi networks for the companys Street View program violates federal wiretapping and California privacy laws.

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POLITICAL parties in Scotland are routinely altering the biographical details of their MPs and MSPs on Wikipedia to remove any entries that may damage their reputations, a new survey has revealed.

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Bookmarks toolbar relegated to right-side button Mozillas second beta for Firefox 4 arrived yesterday and, as expected, it now sets its Chrome-like tabs-on-top feature as default for Mac fanbois. Free On-Demand Webcast – Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

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INTERNET sites have been flooded with loving tributes to a man who touched the lives of many.

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The internet has become fertile ground for new relationships

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 01:45:00 Browsers receive updates to address flaws Google and Mozilla have posted security updates for the Chrome and Firefox web browsers. For Firefox users, the 3.6.8 update will address a single vulnerability within the browser’s plugin parameter array stemming from an earlier fix to the same component. The company is …

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Google Inc., owner of the worlds most popular search engine, won a partial victory in a copyright case brought by Perfect 10, an adult publisher.

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A new Twitter setting called Tweet Media has rolled out to some of Twitters users, strongly suggesting that the company will soon embed videos and photos in the stream. Tweet Media, which the Mashable team and others have

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In the past two decades, polio cases around the world have been reduced by 99 percent. If we can get rid of the last 1 percent, polio will become the second major infectious disease, after smallpox, that has ever been completely eliminated.

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QI have downloaded some music mixes in MP3 format, and Id like to save them to CD-R so I can play them in the living room on a CD player. Whats the easiest way to do this’ I have some 80-minute blank CD-Rs, but a few of the MP3s are longer than that. Is there a way I copy these to CD’

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All good things comes to those who bait’ Mozilla has delayed the second beta release of Firefox 4 by about a week.

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All good things comes to those who bait’ Mozilla has delayed the second beta release of Firefox 4 by about a week.

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It may be helpful to think of Facebook as a utility, like the cable provider or the phone company. But should regulators treat it that way’

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Sweet organization Mozilla is testing a new Firefox interface designed to tame that seemingly endless string of tabs stretching across the top of your browser and beyond.

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Microsoft flicked a dash of mystery into the air on Friday by announcing a new, improved and extended tie-up with ARM. In a statement, Microsoft and ARM , the chip company, were quick to point out that theyve worked together since 1997. Some consumers have seen the fruits of such work appear in the form of a trimmed-down version of Windows that runs on ARM chips found in phones, cars and other …

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A security researcher uncovered a flaw in Apple s Safari Web browser that allows Internet sites to harvest personal information from visitors.

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Google has launched an update for its native Android and BlackBerry apps that will speed up phone call connections. In an update to its blog, the Google Voice team pinpointed an issue with dialing out; there

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Battling the image beast Seattle-based software company Infoflows has been awarded $20m in damages by a US Court, ending a three year dispute with Corbis. The judge decided that Corbis illegally stole Infoflows’ intellectual property – its software.

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QI had a first-generation iPod Nano that was stolen. I am unable to replace it with another iPod so I have bought a cheaper MP3 player . This new player cannot play the AAC files from my iTunes collection nor is it recognised by iTunes. Is there a way to convert my collection’

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Google Inc., which favors regulations on Internet providers, increased its spending on lobbying by 50 percent this year as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission took up the issue.

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Facebook Inc., facing a lawsuit from a New York man claiming an agreement entitles him to 84 percent of the company, is quite sure it never signed such a contract, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said.

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Microsoft Corp. , the worlds largest software maker, may raise its quarterly dividend for the first time since 2008 as its cash hoard swells, data compiled by Bloomberg suggests.

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Dave Bailey, Computing , Wednesday 21 July 2010 at 14:19:00 UK comms regulator says it will save £1.5m per year Tech services company Logica UK has signed a new ICT outsourcing contract with UK communications regulator Ofcom that the regulators says will deliver cost savings of £7.5m over five years. Ofcom said refreshing and simplifying its ICT will provide increased datacentre resilience …

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It’s browser update time. Again Mozilla has pushed out a new version of Firefox that fixes numerous security holes, some critical.

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NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. consumers and businesses may get more options in wireless service starting next year, with the launch of a new wireless broadband network that aims to provide competition to the incumbent phone companies. Private-equity firm Harbinger Capital Partners on Tuesday revealed details of the launch of its …

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Facebook Inc. scored in the bottom 5 percent of a customer-satisfaction survey, below Internet rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., as the social-networking sites frequent changes rankled users.

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Today, Google has announced the launch of the Google Buzz firehose, which will give developers access to all public activity published on Buzz via a single feed with real-time PubSubHubBub syndication. Google said the firehose was their most-requested

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Two heavy hitters on the world health stage — former President Bill Clinton and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates — called Monday for a more efficient fight worldwide against the AIDS virus. In separate speeches at an international AIDS conference in the Austrian capital, Mr. Clinton railed against …

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Its not difficult to end up with several different email addresses, especially once youve been online for a few years. Such a situation is both unwieldy and inconvenient.

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ROAD safety in the Capital is being put at risk by signs advertising traffic information on Twitter, according to motoring groups.

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The Angolan university lecturer, Pacheco Talocha, Thursday in Luanda, spoke of the need for a major cultural exchange within the Portuguese Speaking Community (CPLP), with a view to reinforced cooperation among the member states.

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Google has pulled the plug on the Nexus One, its once highly anticipated smartphone. The last shipment has arrived at Google HQ, and once those are gone there will be no more Nexus Ones for U.S. consumers. The handset will

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Gunze Ltd., a Japanese maker of touch screens, aims to sell 22-inch panels on which users can enlarge or reduce images with two fingers by the end of this year, the Nikkei newspaper said, without saying where it obtained the information.

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Twitter king Ashton Kutcher says there is room for both feature films and new media to co-exist in the entertainment landscape.

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Sometimes people modify Wikipedia “biographies of living persons” with rumors or even malicious disinformation. The folks there have been looking hard at ways of…

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Facebook will finally reach the impressive 500 million user milestone sometime this coming week. To celebrate, itll launch Facebook Stories, a visual memorial to all the ways the social network has changed peoples lives. All Things Digitals

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The image above is cropped from a larger data visualization, created by Twitter, showing the Twitter usage during the world cup. In a post on the companys blog, Matt Graves , a Twitter employee, said that the final match of the World Cup represented the largest period of sustained activity for a single event since Twitter started several years ago.

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Facebooks co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz have both expressed some measure of disapproval where the highly anticipated film The Social Network is concerned. Moscovitz published a frank assessment of the upcoming movie tonight on a Q and A site,

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Apple boss Steve Jobs has promised a free phone case to every owner of its iPhone4, as the company deals with problems surrounding the handset’s antenna.

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Stuart Sumner, Computing , Friday 16 July 2010 at 15:45:00 Data cannot currently flow freely between member states, and individuals’ rights are not sufficiently safeguarded, suggests the European Commission’s vice president Justice, fundamental rights and citizenship commissioner Viviane Reding has said that laws adopted by the European Union’s 27 member states need to be amended so that they …

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Pry my seat from my cold dead buttocks A Lambeth councillor has vowed to continue to represent his constituents following a controversial email sting operation that resulted in his suspension from the Labour party and his recent failure to overturn the decision on appeal.

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