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In a move that might finally open a moneymaking channel for the company, Twitter announced on Thursday that it will launch a geolocation feature as part of its microblogging service. It will also offer a new API so developers can add latitude and longitude data to any tweet. Developers will be given...
The old saying used to be, "If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all." Then the Internet came along, and the saying changed to, "If you can't say anything nice, then invent a fake user name and go to town." The Web has allowed us to get away with saying some pretty awful things...
I regularly preach in this column about old-school newsies making the transition to digital journalism, and lately I've actually been trying to practice all that as well. I've spent the last three weeks becoming friends with my Flipcam, conducting interviews while playing videographer, parsing out t...
Someone, somewhere did not like Liskula Cohen, a model in her 30s who lives in New York. A blog was launched from Google's Blogger platform, apparently devoted to maligning her, complete with uncomplimentary photos. To be sure, such online attacks are hardly rare; indeed, Cohen's story diverges from...
Mention social networks to most Web users, and they'll likely tell you about general-interest gathering places like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. However, other social networks -- some large, some small -- exist to provide users with a way to communicate about slightly more specific topics. LinkedI...
Chinese PC maker Lenovo, best known for office computers like its ThinkPad laptop line, has announced four new products aimed at the consumer home market. One is its first home theater PC, the IdeaCenter Q700. Another is its first home server, the IdeaCenter D400. The other two are the Q100 and Q110...
The security of any given computer system is no better than the skills researchers bring to finding the next potential program flaw. Network security workers concentrate on updating patches and making sure only validated users can access the corporate LAN. Meanwhile, security researchers hunt for ex...
Google on Tuesday announced a new feature that will let users of its Chrome browser sync bookmarks on multiple computers. Announced only a few weeks after its developers began working on the project, the sync capability is yet another round fired in a browser war that appears to be drawing in even m...
Facebook is trying out a new look in its high-growth markets outside the United States. The version features a stripped-down interface designed to open quickly and be simpler to use, according to the company. Word of the project leaked Tuesday when some users received invitations to help test "Faceb...
Google's social network Orkut reportedly plans to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, igniting a long-simmering debate over continued use of the 8-year-old version of the browser. The current version is IE8. Microsoft intends to maintain support for IE6 in conjunction with its support for Win...
As if its widely acknowledged dominance of the U.S. search engine market is not enough, Google on Tuesday revealed that it's working on a next-generation architecture for Web search. The formerly secret project, code-named "Caffeine," is the first step in a process to improve the search engine in va...
In a continuing bid to make itself ever more relevant to advertisers and open its doors to the broader Internet, Facebook has acquired social media aggregator FriendFeed. Founded in 2007 by four former Google developers, the FriendFeed service allows users to build customized feeds based on informat...
The Department of Defense has warned that military use of social networking sites could pose a security threat, and the U.S. Marine Corps has banned Marines from accessing these sites on government computers. However, an Associated Press report published Monday indicates the U.S. Air Force tracked T...
Internet search giant Google has released the latest beta of its Chrome browser, and it's come with several tweaks. The new version is faster; it lets users customize the Tab page, it allows for the addition of themes, it has HTML 5 capabilities, and it spiffs up Chrome's controversial Omnibox. Goog...
Summer is a time to relax, a time to take a vacation, a time to do things you can't do during the work year. However, I'm not sure any time is a good time to send your brain on vacation, and I'm starting to wonder if the leaders at Google and Apple have done just that. Granted, Steve Jobs has a goo...
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