After reviewing the data, the World Health Organisation has decided that cellphone use can raise your risk of some types of brain cancer by as much as 40 percent.

Update 2011-003 for Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, is designed to clean off the MacDefender malware. But, the malware writers already have a workaround.

Whether it proves the power of the cellphone, or the flexibility of the OS, or the skill of the hackers, the Desire HD can be made to run Linux natively. This page includes a 10-minute video showing how.

If you’re looking for a new laptop, this review looks at ten machines, from ten different vendors, running Intel’s Sandy Bridge Core i5 chips. Laptops included feature different screen sizes, a range of prices, and a variety of features.

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.