SOFTWARE

While the politicians and police believe Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger has triggered the fire of riot in London, but thousands of these social network users have made a clean-up effort.

Google is building on top of the allure of its new social network, Google+, with the release of an updated app that will work on all Apple devices.

Parents should have a frank discussion with teens who are interested in entering the social networking scene to help ensure they don't fall into unhealthy or risky habits.

Constantly using social networking Web sites may hurt school performance and lead to psychological disorders among teens, a study said.

Facebook doesn't just alter the way you communicate, but it may be changing who you are entirely. The impact of continuous Facebooking is harming the lives of teens, a set of new studies revealed.

The MobileMe to iCloud transition for developers is expected to generate an extra 5GB storage space in addition to iCloud?s 20GB plan.

Apple released the fifth version of its iOS 5, the upcoming OS of the company, two weeks after the launch of the iOS 5 Beta 4.

As the fall release of iOS 5 - the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system - approaches, iOS 5 beta 5 was released today for developers to download at Apple's iOS developer website. In the meantime, Apple reportedly started to close the accounts of some iOS 5 developers for selling their slots for UDIDs, the unique identification numbers associated with every iOS device.

An Orlando-based author, Concetta Graves has been posting about her horror experiences on Facebook after being mistaken as Casey Anthony.

Honda Motor Co Ltd will recall 2.49 million cars, small SUVs and minivans worldwide, including its popular Accord sedan, to repair a software problem that could damage the automatic transmission.

A recap of the battle of words between Google and Microsoft over patents.

A software security expert warned that flaws in the design of business management software from SAP AG can allow hackers to easily break into corporate computer systems via the Internet.

Google and Microsoft are trading jabs over the patent issue.

Germany has joined the fray to challenge the Facebook facial recognition feature on privacy concerns.

AT&T Inc said some New York customers had voice service outages on Thursday morning because of a software problem that occurred during "routine maintenance activities."

Johannes Caspar, data protection supervisor in Hamburg, Germany, has asked Facebook to stop running its facial recognition feature on German users and to delete their biometric data, reported UK paper Guardian.

Investors worried about Shady RAT cyber intrusions might benefit from security stocks

A Facebook page has been shut down after claims it was an attempt to set up police officers in Northern Ireland for assassination.

AptiQuant, the company behind a study that claimed people who used Internet Explorer had low IQs, confirmed in a post on its Web site that the report was "indeed a hoax."

The success of the Android OS has inspired ?a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents,? wrote David Drummond, Google?s Chief Legal Officer, in a blog post.

Research in Motion announced the arrival of five new BlackBerry 7 smartphones over the next few weeks, but don't expect the phones to set any sales records.