Thanks to updated privacy settings, Facebook users now have to fear everyone — literally.Starting Wednesday, Facebook users who logged into the site were treated to a prompt requesting that they review and update their privacy settings. Users had choice of sharing their profile and status updates with “friends,” “friends of friends” or “everyone.”
Facebook’s new privacy […]

There’ve been some dictation apps before, but now Nuance, maker of the world’s most popular desktop dictation software, is invading the App Store with its own.
Dragon Dictation (link opens iTunes), which is based on the desktop Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, lets you do pretty much everything you’d use the iPhone’s keyboard for, but with your voice.
That […]

Amid all the hubbub over Google DNS on Thursday, the search giant also released two more helpful tools to help you get a richer search experience and improve your language skills. Google launched its dictionary project, offering a feature-rich resource that goes beyond simple definitions of words; and its new translated Web search makes it […]

For many of its users, Google offers Web search results that are customized based on their previous search history and clicks. For example, if someone consistently favors a particular sports site, Google will put that site high in the results when they look up sports topics in its search engine.  
But there has always been one […]

Verizon Wireless’ attack on the iPhone has devolved into chest-beating, with a Droid ad that vaguely slams Apple’s “beauty” and any phone that’s a “tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty pageant queen.”The ad is full of little quips like that: “It’s not a princess, it’s a robot. A phone that trades hairdo for can-do.” Though the iPhone […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Friendster, one of the world’s earliest social networking sites, will be sold to an Asian buyer by the end of December for at least $100 million, a source familiar with the matter said.
Friendster, which predates Facebook and MySpace in the social networking space was founded in 2002. But it quickly lost ground […]