Twitter has been making several purchases lately to boost its security. Last month, the social networking website bought Whisper Systems, a mobile security company, to boost its mobile security. This month, Twitter is adding Dasient to its family, and adding more security to its services. The purchase was confirmed on Monday. Dasient is a company [...]

Mozilla and Google have finally struck a new search deal that would be mutually beneficial for both companies. Mozilla announced on their blog that the “new agreement extends their long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.” Mozilla did not reveal any other details of the new contract. The two company’s [...]

Facebook has acknowledged and fixed a bug that revealed users’ personal photos. The problem was discovered only after several users were able to post Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal pictures. The bug took advantage of the company’s option to report inappropriate images. When users clicked on the “Report” link to flag an image as inappropriate, [...]

Lately, Facebook has been under a lot of scrutiny about its privacy settings, not only among its users, but more importantly, by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In fact, last week, the government announced a broad settlement that will require the social network to respect the privacy wishes of its users. Facebook will be subjected [...]

The days of Grandma sending the grandchildren a $5 bill in a birthday card just disappeared a little further into the annals of history. And the world of completely digital commerce just grew exponentially. The days where the majority of the populace needed a credit card to make a purchase online just came to an [...]

“So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people,” Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra recently wrote in a blog post. “But we want to make sure you can build relationships with all the things you care about–from local businesses to global brands–so today we’re rolling out Google+ Pages worldwide.” Since [...]

Today, Google was revealed to step it up a notch in the privacy game with its new search encryption default. Yesterday, the search engine quietly published Good to Know, a guide aimed at informing Internet users about what’s going on with their Google data. Users will be able to control, within limits, how their data [...]

Google announced on Monday that it will shut down its experimental social network service, Buzz, as the company concentrates more on its more popular Google+. Users can choose to delete their Buzz accounts altogether, but existing Buzz posts will still be viewable on their Google Profiles. Buzz isn’t the only project Google is dropping. Just [...]

Well yes, Steve Miller Band felt time was slippin’ into the future, but now ICANN will ensure that the public domain Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Database (sometimes previously referred to as the Olson database) continues to universally tick, tick, tick into the future. A number of volunteers including U.S. National Institutes of Health [...]

Last week, Google acquired a social analytics company called SocialGrapple. Google has not disclosed any other information on the acquisition other than that the company’s founder is joining Google. SocialGrapple was created by Andrey Petrov. Petrov describes the software as a Twitter analytics tool that tracks changes in a user’s social graph. The software also [...]