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Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.

Over the years, Windows has gotten progressively better at laptop power management--but it still doesn't tell you much about your battery.

Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year.

A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.

For more than 20 years we have been using Layer 3 connectivity powered by dynamic routing protocols to route traffic between data centers, but adoption of virtualization and geo-clustering technologies is forcing us to re-examine our data center interconnect (DCI) models.

Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.

A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.

The inside of the new Apple TV likely resembles the interior of the iPod Touch, a move that allowed Apple to dramatically cut costs, a Canadian research company said today.

As people spend more time online with their phones and as smartphone technology improves, users continually expect better performance from their mobile Web browsers. Dolphin Browser HD (for Android 2.0 and above; use Dolphin Browser for earlier Android versions) very nearly provides desktop-quality browsing optimized for a pocketable device.

The wrangling over net neutrality deserves an opera. Gibbs obliges.

Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.

The U.S. and Canadian governments this week said that Toshiba is voluntarily recalling some Satellite laptops for posing a burn hazard to customers.

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.

After recent settlements by Hewlett-Packard and EMC in a long-standing government contracting fraud case, three major IT and consulting companies are still embroiled in lawsuits brought by two former insiders.

Twitter's mobile user base has spiked 62% since mid-April, thanks in great part to the release of official Twitter applications for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phones.

Consumer Watchdog, a group that has been a sharp critic of Google's privacy practices in the past, is at it again.

Techies share their most noteworthy IT experiences in InfoWorld's Off the Record blog

Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test.

With faster processors and updated graphics, Apple's new 27-in. iMac delivers 'everything I could want from a modern computer,' says Michael deAgonia.