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Once a stronghold of privacy, Facebook has started playing fast & loose with users’ personal data in recent months. If you’re scratching your head wondering how all of this affects you as a user of the service, read on.

Sonos's new operating system adds several features to its audio products.

Google and VMware have formed an alliance, as Google continues its charge toward providing Web-based business software.

Report claims that around 60 per cent of Facebook users are considering deleting their profile

The Library of Congress recently made headlines by announcing an unusual acquisition: every public tweet ever sent on Twitter. Cleverly, it made the announcement by Twitter -- and the interest brought the library's servers to a standstill.

Niche stores that focus on a small range of products have a luxury of often being able to limit their top-level categories to a few choices. But how do larger stores manage to display their breadth of navigation choices while still having a usable website?

What was once just one echelon above a myth is now finally coming to fruition. Adobe is pushing out a beta of its Flash 10.1

The hybrid camera market for digital S.L.R.’s is young but growing. Sony joins the fray with the Alpha NEX-5.

Monday Duke University announced that it will be shutting down a piece of Internet history by switching off the home of the first electronic newsgroups. Thursday, May 20 will mark the day Duke's Usenet server finally goes offline after more than thirty years, originally launched by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.

Officials want to inspect a hard drive from one of Google’s roving vehicles used to compile its Street View photo mapping archive.

Barnes & Noble will be giving away free best-selling books in electronic form for five weeks, while Amazon is extending its Kindle software franchise to Android phones.

At Google I/O, the company announced that its web browser, Chrome, was now 70 million users strong. That's a big number, and up more than 100% in the past year. But wait a second, let's get some perspective.

Following Google's announcements about its Android mobile phone operating system and its new Google TV platform.

Late last week, Google admitted that the company had, for several years, been "mistakenly" collecting private data sent over users' wireless networks. His exact words in describing the breach and its outcome: "No harm, no foul."

This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but not in the traditional sense.

German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation over whether Google broke data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi-Fi data.

Apple getting ready for global iPad push.

We still have no idea what's going on with Apple, Verizon, and the iPhone, but it sounds like AT&T isn't sweating it -- speaking at a J.P. Morgan conference today, Ralph De La Vega reportedly "just laughed" when asked when Ma Bell's iPhone exclusivity would run out, and indicated he wasn't worried about other carriers potentially getting the phone.

The U.S. Copyright Group has quietly targeted 50,000 Bit Torrent users for legal action in federal court in Washington DC.

"It's been a rough few weeks for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ever since he unveiled his company's plan to personalize the Web. After a string of Facebook security breaches and outcry from US Senators over Facebook's new privacy policies, the New York Times revealed the complexities of Facebook's ..."