Google and its partners are working to make the holidays even merrier by helping shoppers save time and money, stay organized, and give to those in need.

IT security and control firm, Sophos, has revealed that 85 percent of users of online government services believe that their local authority’s IT systems have probably already suffered a security breach at the hands of cybercriminals.

Facebook is facing difficulties as it is accused of not completely deleting all user information at their request.

According to media reports, Dutch police have arrested a seventeen-year-old teenager for stealing almost $6000 worth of virtual furniture from users of the Habbo Hotel, a chat room and gaming website aimed at teenagers.

Experts at IT security and control firm Sophos have welcomed news that a man faces a stiff sentence, after admitting he controlled an army of 250,000 compromised PCs in order to harvest PayPal usernames and passwords and other personal information.

Google today announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.

Northeastern University sued Google for patent infrigement claiming the database technology patented in 1997 was misappropriated by Google, according to The Boston Globe.

As user complain about memory leaks produced by the browser, the development team is taking action.

LANrev LP today announced LANrev 4.6, a major update to the all-in-one lifecycle management software for heterogeneous networks.

Seeking out Macintosh information and discussion is now much easier and centralized thanks to the launch of Mac GUI City, a Web site focused on all aspects of Apple Macintosh computing.

Police in Finland have detained a 16-year-old boy who posted a video called “Maaninka massacre” on the YouTube Web site, days after eight people were killed by a student who had posted a similar video on the Internet.

A tale of online love inspired usually cynical New Yorkers this week to help a young man find the girl of his dreams after he spotted her on a crowded subway train.

U.S. spending on Internet advertising will surpass $21 billion this year and double by 2011, as more money moves away from traditional media like television and newspapers, research firm eMarketer forecast on Wednesday.

Yahoo mobile chief Marco Boerries is racing to lock down phone distribution deals that could deliver hundreds of millions of advertising customers before Google’s own mobile strategy ever takes wing.

Fan sites dedicated to Prince say they have been served legal notice to remove all images of the singer, his lyrics and “anything linked to Prince’s likeness,” and have vowed to fight what they said was censorship.

More than two people died when a gunman opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, hours after a video was posted on YouTube predicting a school massacre.

Microsoft released on Tuesday a suite of free Web services that connect to its Windows operating system, delivering a major element of its strategy to maintain the dominance of its software while extending its reach on the Internet.

Social network Facebook unveiled a new advertising system on Tuesday that will let companies introduce ads into the Web profiles of its 50 million users and launch dedicated pages on the site for their brands.

Americans can watch television shows on anything from a computer to an iPod these days, but media companies and advertisers have yet to figure out how best to take advantage of all the new ways to reach audiences.

A Swedish Web site that promotes trading of pirated movies is developing a new software standard for Internet downloads in a move that could make it easier to swap media files, which is illegal in many countries.

From behind a computer keyboard at his London home, student Younes Tsouli used the Internet to spread al Qaeda propaganda, recruit suicide bombers and promote Web sites that encouraged the killing of non-Muslims.

Do you find yourself going online more and more? You’re not alone.

Family groups renewed calls on Friday to clamp down on video game “Manhunt 2″ after hackers accessed scenes of bloody killings that were scaled back to let the game go on sale in the United States.

The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that its Web site now has 1 million subscribers, a milestone for a site that charges for access even as other sites are throwing themselves open for free.

Nine privacy and consumer organizations asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to create a “do not track” list for Internet users who don’t want their online activities tracked, stored and used by advertising networks.