Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to another Web page.

A new electronic paper display could allow users to annotate pages in electronic books, make amendments to documents and erase parts of the page with as much ease as using a real pen and paper.

A Skype kijavította azt a hibát, mely a felhasználóknak akár 10 ezer page fault hibát is okozott másodpercenként.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.'s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop.

Google Inc. renamed and upgraded its Personalized Home Page this week, but one thing the update couldn't shake was a bug that began upsetting many users last Thursday and persisted until Wednesday.

Google has renamed its personalized home page and added several new "gadgets," or mini applications, to the newly minted iGoogle.

Tom Shea, writing in these pages 25 years ago, had it almost right. His article "Subscribe to Magazines with your Microcomputer" in January 1983 described Publishers Aide -- a "magazine subscription fulfillment" company that planned to let home computer users "key ... in a code" to access subscription data from the company's IBM mainframe.

Microsoft Corp. has initiated 97 lawsuits throughout Europe and the Middle East during its eight-month investigation into fraudulent Web pages, with another 32 criminal complaints filed in cooperation with local authorities, the company said Wednesday.

A flaw in Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser makes it easy for cybercriminals to steal user information on Web sites where users create their own pages, such as MySpace.com.

Google Inc. can use any criteria it wishes to rank Web sites, including downgrading competitors, a lawyer for the search giant told a federal judge Friday.

Egy gyermeknevelési tanácsokkal foglalkozó weboldal pereli a Google-t, amiért az nullára értékelte az oldalt a PageRank rendszerrel.

A múlt hét végén beindított Google Page Creator weblapszerkesztő szolgáltatás béta tesztelése olyan népszerű volt, hogy órákkal a debütálás után elérték a maximálisan engedélyezett felhasználói limitet. Szerencsére azóta újra lehet regisztrálni.

Google Inc. launched an early test version of a Web page creation and hosting service on Thursday and hours later stopped accepting sign-ups, citing overwhelming demand.

A Google megállíthatatlanul ontja magából az újabbnál újabb alkalmazásokat, elkényeztetve "rajongőit", de ráncokat varázsolva a Microsoft vezetőinek homlokára. A Page Creator egy egyszerűen kezelhető webszerkesztő, mely segítségével előképzettség nélkül is alkothatunk weboldalakat.

Authorities in Bulgaria arrested eight people last week who allegedly stole financial information using a variety of fake Web pages carrying Microsoft Corp. logos, netting the group at least US$50,000.

As expected, Google Inc. launched a new video download service during a keynote by co-founder and President Larry Page at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Friday.

While rumors of Google Inc. buying Opera Software ASA haven't proved true, the pair have extended their relationship. Opera will include a Google search item on the opening pages of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, the browsers designed for handheld devices. Opera filed a short statement regarding the one-year contract to the Oslo stock exchange on Thursday.