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Windows 8 is a major OS overhaul, but some of the most important additions might be the ones you can't see. Here's a look at Windows 8's new security tools and features.

Investors will pressure Facebook, the public company, to find new ways of making money from users' personal data. If times get hard, can Facebook do that without endangering user privacy?

Not a wheeler-dealer? You still can own some Facebook stock if you really want to. Here's how.

Twitter enables Mozilla's "Do Not Track" feature, so you can opt out of third-party tracking cookies.

There's a chance that there may be less of it than in previous version of Windows, but as with earlier Windows versions, if you want it cleaned of junk, you can pay $99 for a bloatware-cleaning service from Microsoft.

The ARM/Apple tsunami is gaining strength, but anyone who thinks it will swamp Wintel anytime soon is badly mistaken.

Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston advises new doctor to not 'friend' patients on Facebook.

Apple historically has fought iPhone jailbreaking by warning customers that their device warranties will be voided if they muck around with the innards of their Apple products. Now Apple appears to be taking its disapproval of jailbreaking one step further by censoring at least some references to "jailbreak" in its U.S. iTunes store.

Such activity is often paid for, or sanctioned by, government agencies.

More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.

Car insurance firm insurethebox is using a business analytics appliance to analyse drivers' habits and set insurance premiums based on how safe they drive using telematics.

Sophos says they're starting in Russia, but will expand with success.

Price cuts for Apple's iPhone have spread to Best Buy, where the retailer has slashed the iPhone 4's price to $50.

This tiny add-on card could let you connect every piece electronic equipment you own to the Internet.

This remote presence robot shows how technology can help people in the most difficult of positions lead a more normal life.

Apple claims that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs have not specified that the claims about Siri led them to purchase the device.

Google's Knowledge Graph seems like just another search feature, but connect the dots and it could become the brains behind a Siri-like virtual assistant.

The results were surprising even to the researchers who conducted the study.

Bloatware may still creep onto your new Dell, HP, or Lenovo PC, even though Microsoft is reportedly getting ready to take on Windows 8 bloat.