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Microsoft's new version of its Hotmail service has new, improved security features.

The demand by a German regulator increased pressure on the company over its collection of private data from unsecured home wireless networks.

Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM Project, an open, royalty-free codec that can run in HTML5 browsers without the need for Flash.Up till now, the battle between Flash and HTML5 vid

Yahoo Inc. is buying freelance news site Associated Content, which attracted more visitors than the NY Times website last month, in a deal that will add a more folksy touch to one of the world's biggest Web sites.

How magical is the iPad now Mr. Jobs?

Revision3 might have finally found a star bigger than its own founder Kevin Rose (who co-hosts Revsion3's flagship show Diggnation). The Web video production house just signed magician/comedian Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller for a new show called Penn Point. The first episode will go up on May 24.The format will be a 3 to 7 minute rant by

Federal court judge suggests that one of the most respected attorneys from the technology sector advised LimeWire execs to destroy evidence. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick.

Man, what's with all those Apple leaks in Vietnam these days?

Yes! Yes! Yes! Those sounds you heard moments ago are the horrified screams of your nearest AT&T towers. Why? Because iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 brings us a new option in the settings menu: Tethering.

The continuing backlash against Facebook’s growing power on the web and its ongoing push to make its users share more data has inspired hackers to develop transparency tools that demonstrate the site’s privacy threats. One shows you your own data leaks; another lets you peek at the forehead-slapping foibles of others.

Apple's Final Cut Studio suite of video post production apps is getting a significant makeover to better target the software to the mainstream of Apple's customer base rather than high end professionals. According to a person with knowledge of Apple's internal Pro Apps plans, the company has shuffled around management within the Final Cut team...

How to get security updates on Windows Vista.

A huge attack by a rogue Facebook application last weekend took advantage of the lowest common denominator and infected users' PCs with pop up-spewing adware.