Twitter‘s newest security roll-out is designed to make accounts harder to hijack.  It allows you to access the popular social networking site through the more secure “https” connection, as opposed to the plain, old “http”, which is less secure. The micro-messaging site has been under pressure to increase its security on the heels of the [...]

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If you use Hotmail as your e-mail service provider, Microsoft has now added a new feature called Quick Add, courtesy of Bing. The new feature allows you to include a variety of special goodies in your e-mails including restaurant reviews, movie times, images, videos, and maps. Quick Add is available to users in Australia, Canada, [...]

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The iron-fisted Chinese government is understandably not a big fan of Web 3.0.  Still, in an unbelievable move today, Chinese officials have shut down Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Hotmail.com, Blogger, YouTube and a host of other sites. Free speech is merely a figment of the imagination in China and the blocking of these services is another [...]

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Are you concerned about your privacy when it comes to using third-party e-mail providers like Gmail and Hotmail? Switch to Yahoo. Yahoo has just been found guilty of withholding personal account information linked to Yahoo e-mail addresses by a court in Dendermonde, Belgium. The court told Yahoo to fork over a €55,000 fine (about $69,197) [...]

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