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Spam and phishing have been ongoing problems at Twitter for some time, and tonight the company announced that it is stepping up its efforts to stop them with some new features, described as being able to “detect, intercept, and prevent...

Online sources claim that Microsoft has decided to launch Windows 7 Service Pack 1 before the end of the current year. This would be earlier than originally anticipated. The company has officially never stated the expected launch period...

Google is slowly taking over your life, so much so that now I refer to everything as ‘Google’. I Google in the morning, get a quick Google done before lunch and always make sure I have at least one Google before bed. Sounds...

Apple rolls out the first TV advert for the iPad, displays the device being used on several people’s laps Apple used the high-profile Oscars ceremony to release its latest advertising campaign. No surprises for guessing which product...

Turns out that Opera, Mozilla, and Google’s gripes about Microsoft’s browser favoritism were accurate, it appears Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is the slowest of the major browsers on the market, but it (along with its previous...

Google has gobbled up another small productivity company with today’s purchase of DocVerse, a plug-in that makes Microsoft Office software collaborative. The only surprise about this latest acquisition, perhaps, is that its founders didn’t...

Whoa. During the keynote presentation at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Microsoft’s Eric Rudder played the same Indiana Jones-ish game on a Windows computer, a Windows Phone 7 phone, and an Xbox 360. Gaming is about to get real ubiquitous. Not...

‘Thanks for the good times…’ Microsoft sent flowers to last night’s IE6 funeral, thanking the browser for “all the good times.” The nine-year-old IE6 was laid to rest yesterday in Denver, Colorado, after...

The iPad, Apple’s new-fangled tablet computer, will be hitting store shelves on April 3rd. The device combines the multi-function use of the iPod Touch (music, movies, web-browsing, gaming, so forth) but with a larger size and a higher...

Pretty huge news in our book: Skype has published a free mobile application for Symbian in the Ovi Store, basically enabling over 200 million Nokia handset users to easily download the program and start making free Skype-to-Skype calls from...