Twitter is rolling out a UI update to their following lists and adding functionality for social actions.

In a note posted on its site, trade group for top music labels says court ruled in its favor.

Firefox 3.5 forges ahead with strong developer support, but most improvements for casual users will probably strike them as minor. See what's new for the second-most popular browser in this slideshow.

A day after converting the latest beta of its Windows Mobile phone software into a full-fledged release, Skype pushes out updates to its Windows software and its iPhone app.

Cisco is adding new functions in its WebEx service that could threaten Microsoft's own business collaboration efforts.

New release brings the second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it ahead of the competition.

Social site now better at collecting Diggs under canonical URLs, and tracking them too.

A flaw that prevented Windows Desktop Search from working properly with Google's App Sync for Outlook tool has been fixed.

Oracle wants Linux to be free, but has gone about this goal in the wrong way. Rather than cloning Red Hat, Oracle simply needs to bless Ubuntu.

For those who want another way to keep their Twitter feed fed, Yahoo's photo-sharing site now has a direct conduit to the microblogging service.

The first week of reporter Daniel Terdiman's annual trip included a drive to the highest paved road in North America, a look at new Air Force cadets, and a visit to perhaps the most secure military location on Earth.

A new data center in Lockport, N.Y., is part of a strategy that Yahoo believes will allow it to end carbon offset purchases to reach carbon-neutral status.

The GNU project founder has urged developers to drop use of the open-source toolset, saying it could expose their work to legal action from Microsoft.

Independent acts now have to be selling physical CDs through Amazon before Pandora will consider them.

Every time a browser receives a major update, it ghosts out a good chunk of those favorite, ingenious, and time-saving extensions we've come to rely on. Here are the add-ons that we've found to work or break in Firefox 3.5.

The first iterations of something akin to the universal translators used on Star Trek may soon be arriving via your smartphone.

Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browser had been downloaded more than 2 million times by late afternoon, Pacific time, according to a company counter.

YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the old layout.

What goes up must come down, and lately what's coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers. However, we can't blame netbooks for that. We can only blame vendors who overhype and customers who underbuy. Before you buy a smaller, cheaper and less powerful netbook, determine if you need a notebook instead. If so, you can spend about the same money and get more power, albeit in a larger package.

Back in 2004, Texas Instruments (TI) noticed a problem in its customer service department, one that's typical in companies serving technical customer bases. Some of TI's main customers (engineers) buy and use some of the company's most technical products, such as digital signal processors. TI needed a better way to quickly provide answers to customer questions, without the customer sitting on hold with a call center, waiting for a representative who might not even have the technical expertise to answer the inquiry.

Google has fixed an issue with the Outlook synchronization tool it released recently for its Apps hosted communications and collaboration suite, Google said Tuesday.

The professional division of Thomson Reuters, which is six months into a massive data center virtualization project using Cisco Systems Inc. gear, has already seen a payback on costs.

Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company's annual Cisco Live customer conference that was briefly disrupted by a protest and a technical glitch.

Unified communications has been a specialty of networking vendors for years, but Google's recent moves to introduce collaboration and voice communications tools could drastically upset the competitive landscape.

The Samsung Jack ($100 with a two-year contract from AT&T, as of June 22, 2009) handles work and play somewhat better than its predecessors, but the mobile-phone landscape has changed significantly in the 18 months since the BlackJack II came out. For a smartphone today, it doesn't do much to attract newcomers to the Samsung fold, especially when matched against the impeccable design of the iPhone 3GS or the refined utility of the BlackBerry Curve 8310--both of which AT&T offers at the same price.

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A new variant of the particularly malicious Zeus family of Trojans has surfaced and is compromising computers at an alarming rate.

The notebook PC comes with Wi-Fi support or optional mobile broadband for connecting to a wireless carrier.

Google App Sync for Microsoft Outlook has been fixed so that it no longer interferes with Windows Desktop Search.

The online retailer has been dropping affiliates in states that approve the collection of sales taxes for online transactions.

An additional 7,000 MacBooks will be ordered in the coming weeks. Maine is the only state to provide laptops to every public school student.

The company is trying to one-up Apple's App Store by offering carriers a hosted virtual store that can reach a broad variety of devices.

PNC's Elvin sees positive signs of the industry moving away from siloed approaches to AML, fraud and risk management in general.

A joint cyber-crime task force is being launched to help better coordinate international efforts against ID theft and hacking.

Online application service would put Cisco alongside Google and others in going after a slice of Microsoft's lucrative Office software franchise.

The 3.0 version of Skype for Windows Mobile smartphones can make calls over a 3G network, send text messages, and transfer files with the handset.

Heartland Payment Systems has announced that it has successfully completed an AES-encrypted transaction process from a merchant card reader through to a processor network.

Joe Nacchio is serving six years in prison for illegal insider trading while head of the telecom firm.

Mozilla's Firefox 3.5, long delayed, has been officially released and now faces an increasingly competitive browser market.

The Internet-enabled handheld device is being likened to Apple's iPod Touch and could be released this year.

Mobile workers using the BlackBerry Tour smartphone will be able to use Verizon's CDMA network while in the U.S and EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad.

AP - In a rare reversal, China's government gave in to domestic and international pressure and backed down Tuesday from a rule that would have required personal computers sold in the country to have Internet-filtering software.

AP - As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Research said in a report Tuesday.

AP - Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Tuesday it is getting a big lift from rising sales of flat-screen televisions, most notably in China.

AP - Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is back at his office a few days a week after taking a 5 1/2-month medical leave and getting a new liver.

AP - Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for viewers to bypass commercials.

AP - Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden high demand for information.

PC World - Google has fixed an issue with the Outlook synchronization tool it released recently for its Apps hosted communications and collaboration suite, Google said Tuesday.

Macworld.com - Users who turn to Cadent Computing's wineCellar to log and organize their wine collection will now be able sync entries via a new synchronization service added in the latest update. wineCellar 2.0 introduces Cadent Cloud, a service that lets the app sync up to 500 wines to a cloud where they can be viewed through either a standard Web site or a site for mobile devices.

NewsFactor - Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland on Tuesday as the first step in what the cable-TV network operator expects to eventually become a nationwide rollout -- with Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia expected to go online later this year.

Reuters - Joost, an early pioneer in bringing popular TV shows and movies to the Web, is dropping its consumer service, cutting jobs and losing its high-profile chief executive as it struggles to find revenue to survive.

PC World - Upcoming real-time strategy Windows game StarCraft II will ship without Local Area Network multiplayer support in an effort to combat piracy, says Blizzard, in an official statement sure to annoy if not outright confound series fans the world round.

Macworld.com - Cooliris, the visually-enthralling free browser plug-in that allows you to navigate through online photos and video via a 3-D image wall, has been updated to version 1.1.1. New to this version is support for displaying Cooliris within tabbed windows, sharable URLs, and greater support for Flickr information and MySpace content.

Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc is considering offering Web-based alternatives to Microsoft Corp's popular Office software as the networking giant expands on the Internet.

PC World - Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company's annual Cisco Live customer conference that was briefly disrupted by a protest and a technical glitch.

PC World - A blind Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.