Apple has never been targeted in the same way as have Microsoft’s operating systems. This has apparently led the to become somewhat complacent.

LinkedIn is the social network for serious business people, so it’s a little surprising to find they are making the names and photos in your profile accessible to advertisers by default.

You’ve got multiple devices and you’re tired of trying to remember which file is on which device? A cloud service could help. This article looks at eleven services and offers their recommendations.

The European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) is inviting people to lend unused computing cycles towards finding the Higgs Boson. Installing their client turns your computer into a node on a distributed supercomputer.

Anonymous has issued a warning – they plan to kill Facebook on November 5, 2011, to save the “citizens of the world”. Some members are claiming this threat didn’t come from them.

If you don’t want to buy a dedicated e-reader, or you don’t like some of the book store rules, you can now use Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader in your Web browser. The app is currently available for the Safari and Chrome browsers.

Millenniata and Hitachi-LG Data Storage will soon be releasing an optical disc that can withstand a dip in liquid nitrogen followed by a dunk in boiling water. The discs will supposedly last “forever” or at least past the point where you have anything capable of reading them.

There will be new devices. The new devices will run iOS5. iOS5 is due for release in the next few months. Apple is happy to have lots of rumors circulating, for the free publicity, but they haven’t confirmed anything.

RIM has had a bad year. They’re now caught between the British government, which wants access to their encrypted communications channels, and hackers, who want to keep those same channels protected from the police. Hackers have even threatened to target RIM employees if the company assists the police.

A team of Taiwanese scientists, at the Industrial Technology Research Institute, have developed a rewritable e-paper. The “i2R e-paper” needs no power to be viewed and can be used 260 times.