Computerworld - Twitter knows where you are -- at least in the U.S. The microblogging site on Thursday night turned on its new geolocation feature, which allows you to tell the Twitterverse where you are when you tweet. The new feature, which is off ...

Computerworld - A study released today supports the oft stated notion that most of Twitter's 75 million registered users are less than committed to the microblogging site. The report, compiled by Barracuda Networks Inc., an e-mail and Web security ...

Rumor has it that the iPhone OS 4.0 software specs include support for multitasking. Such plans would mean that not only core Apple apps would be runnable in the background. In IT ...

Computerworld - Tomorrow's the first on-sale day for Apple's iPad, the tablet-styled device that CEO Steve Jobs has repeatedly called "magical" and "revolutionary." You won't be able to get your hands on an iPad for another three weeks -- Apple has ...

IDG News Service - Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so ...

Computerworld - Apple's agreement with iPhone developers contains several "troubling" clauses that paint the company as a "jealous and arbitrary feudal lord," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday. The nonprofit digital rights ...

IDG News Service - Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard. At a press briefing via telepresence on ...

IDG News Service - The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally. The coming swarm of tablets has even prompted Arm ...

IDG News Service - Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday. The investment could help Intel develop better hardware for ...

Apple will deliver multitasking to iPhone 4.0 this summer, according to a prominent Apple blog. We've heard that rumor before. On the other hand, it has to be true sometime.