Major ISPs mulling behaviour-based advertising

This review has been updated, with some clarifications that relate to the beta firmware used in the reviewer's handset.  The first Sony branded smartphone carries an exclusive yet elegant look, but with some deceptive...

Google’s head of social media, Vic Gundotra, has criticised Facebook for over sharing. Speaking during the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Gundotra, who was later joined by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, talked up...

Social networking giant Facebook has launched a new messaging service that some are already touting as a Gmail killer - but is it just another phase in the social network's quest to hoover up all the personal data of its 500...

Web-based 'cloud' services - for e-mail, for calendaring, for document collaboration - are incredibly useful, but they can mean that you end up with your data scattered all over the 'net.  If that's the case for you, new...

Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users' privacy, Europe's privacy watchdogs have confirmed. A committee of data protection regulators has said that the sites are 'data controllers', with all the legal...

Tor is a toolset for organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize Web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications...

Email-based attacks used to be the weapon of choice, but hackers have now shifted their attention to the web. Despite users becoming more computer-savvy and wising up to malicious emails, many have remained uneducated to the...