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• Microsoft taps 'Print' in Office on the iPad

  Microsoft today shipped the first update for Office for iPad since its debut five weeks ago, adding printing to the three apps.

• Go time travelling with Google Maps

  Google added past images of places noted in Street View for the desktop version of Google Maps. The goal is to give users the ability to see how places have changed over time.

• IE6: Retired but not dead yet

  Microsoft may have retired Internet Explorer 6 last week, but it's still keeping track of the ancient browser's user share on a death watch-like website that's been running for more than three years.

• Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy

  Microsoft on Monday conceded that Google's Chrome OS and the Chromebooks the operating system powers are capable of doing real work, a reversal of its 'Scroogled' campaign that once blasted the laptops as worthless.

• Yahoo reportedly launching YouTube rival

  Reports are circulating that Yahoo is looking to launch a video site that would go up against Google's behemoth YouTube.

• Microsoft accepted PR backlash to protect IP in Kibkalo leak

  Microsoft had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the inevitable public relations backlash stemming from last week's disclosure that it accessed a customer's Hotmail account, an expert in corporate messaging and public relations said.

• Self-publishing e-books: How to get started

  Self-publishing has become an increasingly important industry for both individual authors and businesses who want to put out their own books. But how do you begin? Here are some tips for self-starters.

• Google Hangouts, Talk, Sheets all crash on Monday

  Don't panic, Google's Talk and Hangouts services crashed this morning, but now appear to be returning for more and more users.

• Blocked Russian opposition site recommends Opera to outwit blacklist

  One of the government opposition websites blocked last week by Russian officials recommended that users circumvent the access shut-off by running Opera Software's desktop browser.

• Google patches $310K worth of Chrome, Chrome OS bugs

  Google on Friday patched several vulnerabilities in Chrome and Chrome OS within 48 hours of their disclosures at last week's Pwn2Own and Pwnium hacking contests.

• Mozilla shelves Metro Firefox, cites user apathy toward Windows 8

  Mozilla on Friday abruptly canceled the release of its touch-enabled Firefox browser for Windows 8, just four days before it was to ship and after two years of work.

• Twitter crashed -- again -- on Tuesday

  The Twitter website crashed on Tuesday -- the social network's second outage in the past nine days.

• US-CERT urges XP users to dump IE

  People who plan to run Windows XP after Microsoft pulls the patch plug should dump Internet Explorer (IE) and replace it with a different browser, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said Monday.

• Russia blocks web pages linked to Ukrainian protest

  Russia has moved to block citizens from accessing online information about the Ukrainian political movement that ousted the country's pro-Russian president last week.

• The Oscars - and a selfie - rock Twitter

  While actors, directors and other Hollywood types got their coveted Oscar awards last night, Twitter was getting recognition of its own.