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• The 12 Best BlackBerry Apps

  Hunting for the best BlackBerry apps? Try the productivity tools, utilities, and entertainment titles we've collected here.

• Location-Based Services: 5 Myths Debunked

  First there was location-based social network Foursquare. Then Gowalla and other sites followed suit and launched. And now with news that Facebook is slowly rolling out its own location-based technology, you can expect to hear a lot-both true and false-about what these services really are.

• Chrome 6 beta may hint at mythical Chrome OS tablet

  The latest beta of Chrome 6 is out, and its menus have been optimized for touch--complete with buttons for copying, pasting, as well as zooming in on a page. Could this be a taste of what the rumored Chrome OS tablet will be like? Maybe.

• 40 Windows apps contain critical bug, says researcher

  About 40 different Windows applications contain a critical flaw that can be used by attackers to hijack PCs and infect them with malware, a security researcher said Wednesday.

• US pushes North Korea on Twitter freedom

  The U.S. government has welcomed North Korea's jump onto Twitter and challenged the country to let its citizens see the recently created account.

• North Korea jumps onto Twitter

  North Korea has established its first official presence on Twitter, the micro-blogging site that's being embraced by governments and an increasing number of world leaders.

• RIM needs to make the BlackBerry business-sexy

  Last week at an event in New York, Research In Motion introduced its latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Torch, along with the most recent update of the operating system, BlackBerry 6.

• Twitter launches the Tweet Button

  Twitter has launched its Tweet Button, whose goal is to simplify the sharing of Web links on Twitter both for Web publishers and for end users.

• MTV gets its first Twitter Deejay

  Remember when MTV debuted in 1981 with VJs, the on-air music equivalent of record-spinning deejays?

• Microsoft to thank Google researcher for privately reporting Windows bugs

  The Google security engineer who stirred up a hornets' nest two months ago after publicizing a critical Windows vulnerability said Friday that Microsoft will credit his work on four of the 34 bugs slated for patching on Tuesday.

• Facebook, Twitter killed Google Wave

  Was it a social network or a collaboration tool on steroids? Nobody could quite agree, and it’s one reason for the demise of Google Wave.

• Social media sucks up 23 per cent of time online

  Sorry, e-mail. You've just taken a back seat to both social networks and and online games.

• Japan user marks Twitter's 20 billionth 'tweet'

  Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to say something in 140 characters or less, passed another milestone on Saturday with the sending of tweet number 20 billion.

• Search engine optimization techniques for hackers

  Any company that does business online knows the importance of mastering search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to get their content atop the Google rankings. It turns out malware pushers care about SEO, too, and at DefCon later this week researchers will show just how big a deal it has become.

• Twitter encounters more digital certificate problems

  Twitter is having trouble again with a digital certificate that secures communications to its Web site, which has been causing trouble for third-party applications that integrate with it, but the problem may have been fixed.