Internet News

As I've said before, you need to be careful what you post on social networking sites like Facebook. It can get you fired, or in this case, expose the personal details of the new head of the U.K.'s MI6.

As I grow older, I find that I am less likely to be able to drink a soda and make it through a long movie. When is the best time to go? Generally, I have to guess. With an iPhone or iPod Touch and a new app, the guesswork may be over.

Virtual goods are big business nowadays, in online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft, so much so there is discussion over taxing profits made from such goods. Real as the virtual reality is, someone in the online game EVE Online stole virtual money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for real cash.

George Hotz, AKA Geohot, who came up with the first unlock for the original iPhone, has beaten the iPhone Dev Team to the punch. He's released a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS code-named purplera1n.

Facebook will simplify the way in which it offers privacy options to its users, as it gets ready to give its members for the first time the option to make the content they post on their profiles available to anyone on the Internet.

Microsoft's Bing has already got one up on Google. The new search engine, that Microsoft only launched in May, offers users the ability to search Twitter, something that Google has not yet accomplished.

If shopping for household essentials like toilet paper and soap isn't your favorite activity, a new Web site might eliminate the task -- while saving you cash.

Chocoholics, take note: People who like to order chocolate and gifts from Hershey's online service won't be able to after this month.

In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

OMGIGP was the acronym of one of Microsoft's latest advertisements, and despite the presence of Superman, Dean Cain, the ad (which is really Oh, my God, I'm Gonna Puke" has been removed from from the IE8videos channel on YouTube, and also from the BrowsefortheBetter.com site, which is part of the ad campaign.

When Japan first started to produce goods, many said they marveled at how well Japan could copy things. Now many such knock-offs come from China. In terms of the iPhone, such replicas could easily spotted. Now, not so much.

Google's made more changes to the way labels work in Gmail. In February, Google made labels more like folders, and now they've moved their position on your sidebar up next to your system labels, and also reduced some of your label clutter.

Technology Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google Microsoft Bing search site Bing garners 8.23 percent of market, as Google falls to 78.48 pct in June from 78.72 pct in May LONDON/SEATTLE - Reuters Last updated on Wednesday, Jul.

I've written about China's Green Dam censorware a couple of times, and there's no doubt it's drawn a great deal of criticism. On Tuesday, China announced it would be indefinitely delaying the rollout of the product, which it had earlier said would have to be installed (or at least provided) on all PCs sold in the country as of July 1st.

In the wake of the recent celebrity deaths (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays) have come a spike in fake death news. Jeff Goldblum, Britney Spears, George Clooney, and Tuesday, Rick Astley. No, none of them are dead.

The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracking site, has faced the brunt of legal battles of late. Specifically, this includes the founders of The Pirate Bay, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, as well as Carl Lundstrom, who provided financing, all of who were found guilty of facilitating copyright infringement. Now, however, it looks to go legit, as Swedish tech company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to it for about $7.7 million.

Mozilla has confirmed that the next release of their browser, Firefox 3.5, will go live on Tuesday, June 30th. The versioning on the new release was originally set to be 3.1, but was bumped once it became apparent just how many changes were going into the product.

It's been a terrible week for celebrity deaths, with Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays all dying. What's this? A tweet about Britney Spears on her feed? She's dead? Say it's not so!

On April 7th, iTunes went 100% DRM-free, but at the same time Apple introduced tiered pricing. And therein lies the crux of this new lawsuit against Apple.

MotionApps, which I wrote about earlier, has released one of the few apps available for Palm's Pre and its webOS platform: an emulator that allows you to run Palm OS applications. On Friday, they launched Classic Well, a community-driven Web site that tracks Palm OS "Classic" app compatibility.