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Twitter announced the organization of its first official developers conference, Chirp, in San Francisco.

Following through on plans announced a few months ago, Facebook is rolling out changes on Wednesday to its privacy settings intended to make them simpler to adjust and understand by its 350 million end users.

The world is not only losing the war against spam, the situation might be about to get a whole lot worse with the emergence of a new type of automatic botnet able to thrive without direct human control, Symantec’s MessageLabs division has warned.

Who doesn’t love getting something special delivered to their door during the holidays? Newsletters are a great way to keep in touch, but time is running out to get yours in the mail before the season ends. Fortunately, Apple’s Pages ‘09 ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) makes it easy to create a quick but beautiful holiday newsletter. Here’s how.

Nearly a quarter of men have pulled a sickie from work in order to play computer games, says MyVoucherCodes.co.uk.

We’ve collected every scrap of rumour we’ve heard, and put them all together into one giant Apple Tablet FAQ. If you have a question about the Apple Tablet then here is where you’ll find answers.

For $1 a night, you, too, can cost the movie industry $1 billion in lost revenue. That’s how much you pay to rent a movie from the budget-conscious Redbox DVD rental kiosks, found in many retail stores. According to a study conducted by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), these kiosks are draining the life out of the film industry.

As you browse the Web, Web sites watch you. Information is gathered about you, potentially shared with others, and possibly kept for a very long time. Which sites gather this information and which don’t…and what do they do with the information? There’s no practical way to know–unless you use TrackerWatcher, that is. This excellent, free Firefox add-on checks the privacy tracking features of Web sites you visit, and reports the results to you in great detail.