Finally, a Way to Hide Your Gmail Addiction

Back in May, I lamented a crucial problem that was delaying a dream of mine — a truly universal e-mail inbox. Google’s Gmail, by the far the most flexible Web-based e-mail system, gives users several tools to combine all of their many e-mail addresses into one inbox. Read More

Mapping Out Twitter's Burgeoning Media Landscape

If this summer is truly the moment that Twitter came into its own as a social media force to be reckoned with, it's not necessarily due to Michael Jackson, Iran, Horizon Realty or Conan O'Brien. Rather, it's because of efforts going on in places like the University of Washington, where some teachers are beginning to ensure that social media savvy is part of the curriculum for communications students. Read More

Legal battle puts Skype's future in jeopardy, owner says

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A legal battle has put the future of Skype in jeopardy, according to eBay, which owns the online communications system.Read More

Apple to fix iPhone security flaw

Apple is set to release a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone, the UK network operator 02 has said. Read More

Firefox: 1 billion downloads only part of the story

At about 8 a.m. PDT Friday, Firefox crossed the billion-download threshold--a notably large number for Mozilla's open-source Web browser but one that doesn't tell the whole story. Read More

Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Much More Personal

For all the concern and uproar over online privacy, marketers and data companies have always known much more about consumers’ offline lives, like income, credit score, home ownership, even what car they drive and whether they have a hunting license.Read More

Behind-the-Wheel Texting Laws Might Not Change Habits

A proposed national ban on text messaging while driving is already drawing criticism that it doesn't go far enough and is unlikely to be effective without stringent enforcement and radical attitude shifts in the driving public. Read More

Breaking down Microsoft and Yahoo's search deal

With a few strokes of a giant purple pen, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Yahoo's Carol Bartz finally signed a deal Wednesday that will turn Microsoft into the second-largest search company in the world, and turn Yahoo into a media-driven advertising broker.Read More

Hacker's extradition decision due

The long-running case of computer hacker Gary McKinnon could finally be settled later at the High Court. Read More

Ballmer: Windows will get more competition

REDMOND, Wash.--Kicking off a financial analyst meeting on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addressed the threats to Microsoft's biggest economic engine, its Windows business. Read More

Woman sued over ‘malicious’ tweet

A 127-character tweet about a moldy apartment in Chicago could end up costing @abonnen $50,000. Read More

New 'crisis satellites' launched

A rocket has been launched from Kazakhstan carrying two British-built satellites which will help monitor natural disasters. Read More

Microsoft and Yahoo: Search partners

After a year and a half of dealing, the tech giants reach a 10-year deal to take on Google, which holds a 65% market share in online search. Read More

An Apple tablet could pit iTunes against Amazon

With rumors piling up about a forthcoming Apple tablet, it appears more and more likely that such a device will emerge soon. Read More

MSN launches free streaming video

Microsoft has announced a UK service that will stream full-length videos of television shows for free.Read More

Analysis: Microsoft wants some of Google's good thing

Microsoft knows a good thing when it sees it. And what Google has going on with its search advertising business is a good thing -- which, of course, is why Microsoft want a bigger piece of it. Read More