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Article | 12/05/2009 What Google knows about you

"Google knows more about you than your mother."

Article | 12/05/2009 Facing the haters at Facebook

It turns out when you run the world's biggest social network, you inherit the world's biggest social problems. And so it goes with Facebook, which is ...

Article | 9/05/2009 Has Twitter replaced sex?

One of the many luminaries I follow on Twitter is PornStarTweet. (I make these sacrifices just for you, I hope you realize that.) Earlier Friday he/sh...

Article | 7/05/2009 Downloads to dress up your PC

Give your desktop and other parts of Windows a makeover with these 10 free and low-cost downloads

Article | 7/05/2009 It takes a village idiot: The jerks of online forums

Discussion forums are magnets for some of the jerkiest people on the 'Interwebs'. We profile a dozen of the most common and annoying forum jerks--from...

Article | 7/05/2009 IPv6 security guru fields questions

Although he acknowledges that businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru Scott Hogg says that doesn't mean IT executives can ignore the securi...

Article | 7/05/2009 The Internet sky really is falling

Many folks are familiar with the modeling we've done over the past few years highlighting the fact that Internet demand is outstripping capacity, spec...

Article | 6/05/2009 Are your salespeople using Twitter?

Twitter certainly has received a lot of media attention recently, with the Kutcher vs. CNN battle to see who would be the first to have a million foll...

Article | 6/05/2009 Use the Internet, lose your privacy

Bruce Schneier, author and computer security expert, wrote a good reality-check essay on the subject of online privacy, or the lack thereof.

Article | 30/04/2009 Facebook's privacy options

Facebook users -- and their managers -- who are concerned about keeping control of their information should get themselves over to the social network'...

Article | 6/05/2009 10 new search tools that complement Google

Search engines get to grips with Web 2.0

Article | 5/05/2009 Gmail, Google Maps and Google Search: 19 cool tips

You can bookmark a Gmail message, track stocks in Google's search box, quickly estimate a taxi ride's cost in Google Maps, and do much more. We tell y...

Article | 5/05/2009 Smartphones: 14 great things iPhones and BlackBerrys can do

Control 7 different devices with your iPhone, play Internet radio on your BlackBerry, and more

Article | 5/05/2009 Facebook introduces live-streaming updates

Facebook is flipping the "live" switch on its home page, sending your stream of friend updates into motion for the first time.

Article | 2/04/2009 25 computer products that refuse to die

Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die. They stay on the market--even though they haven't been updated in eons. Or their names get slappe...

Article | 1/05/2009 The Problem with Twitter

Despite its growing popularity--thanks to celebrity exposure and the infamy it has gathered from the swine flu debacle--Twitter has exposed the cracks...

Article | 1/05/2009 How Facebook mucks up office life

Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, along with your...

Article | 1/05/2009 Two weeks without Twitter: an experiment

I joined Twitter in September 2008 to see what all the fuss was about. This, of course, was right in the middle of the economic meltdown, and the US p...

Article | 2/05/2009 Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?

A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go unused, because Wi-Fi has become so prevalent...

Article | 2/05/2009 Gmail Labs' 5 best and 5 worst Features

Google's announced a new addition to its list of Gmail Labs offerings: a built-in Google Search feature. The option, once activated, adds a Web search...