If you worry about your e-mails being read by other than the addressee, No Trail E Mail offers some piece of mind. Messages can be tagged with an expiration date after which they are overwritten so they can not be recovered.

Iranian officials, fighting to maintain control of communications, is looking at creating its own “internet” that would not be linked to the rest of the world.

Social networking lets us keep track of everyone we meet leading us to try and keep track of thousands of “friends”. The problem is, our brains don’t seem to be set up to allow that many friends.

“Swordfish” is now available for beta testing. Opera 11.50 offers improved HTML5 support, improved CSS, better DOM event handling, and more.

Google Wallet is designed to let you use your smartphone, instead of your credit or debit card, for payments. It uses RFC on Android devices. So, if your phone doesn’t have RFC, you need to get a new phone, or a new carrier, or both.

If you’ve had trouble connecting to Skype the last couple of days, there is a new version of their Windows software available. A new version for Mac is expected to be out soon.

Most operating systems have vulnerabilities. It’s more a matter of how many there are. So, with Google saying their Chrome OS doesn’t need anti-virus protections, are they really being honest with themselves?

There’s a lot of money to be made on patents. For instance. Microsoft owns some patents on Android devices for which they collect licensing fees. This means Microsoft earns more money on Android phones than on WinPhone7 devices.

Google would like you to create a profile to link your Google Docs, Gmail, and other Google applications. Of course, if you do, Google is making this information available to anyone who wants to mine the data.

Now that Microsoft owns Skype… Skype has suffered its first service failure. Skype has posted some instructions on how to get around the problem.