The effectiveness of the social networking site Twitter as a breaking news information center is again being demonstrated following the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. Due to the 140 character limit of each tweet, news can quickly be updated as more information becomes available.

Google wants to be all things Internet to all people. Generally, there services are free, too. Users still pay a price, however. Their data is there for Google to mine. If you want to know just how much Google knows about you, that's what Google Dashboard is for.

SD cards are common storage media for portable electronic devices like digital cameras, digital camcorders, handheld computers, PDAs, media players, mobile phones, and GPS receivers. While this popular utility is solid, SD cards, due to their logical pliability, get easily mishandled, formatted accidentally, infected with virus, or data in them deleted or corrupted.

New Internet marketing features keep rolling out, and in the last few days there have been announcements from Twitter, Google and Amazon each announcing a major new feature (Google’s is in beta).

Consumers have seen smaller Netbooks and Mini-Laptops as a secondary machine to buy alongside a standard laptop or a desktop computer.

Tonight's widespread outage for T-Mobile customers marks the second major service issue for T-Mobile in less than a month. In October, a server failure caused customers with Sidekick-brand phones to lose much of their data. The current outage is affecting many T-Mobile subscribers who are having problems sending text messages and receiving phone calls tonight.

Twitter has now rolled out the lists function to everyone on Twitter. And already the online chat is buzzing with popularity and conspiracy theories.

Macatte emerged on October 31 as the latest threat to internet users. Macatte is a standard rogue antivirus program that appears to be installed via deliberately contaminated torrent downloads. Chances are good that it is being spread via other vectors, as well. Just like all rogue antispyware, Macatte tricks users into believing that their computer is infected with spyware, and then attempts to extort money from the PC owner in order to "repair" the alleged infections.

The Obama White House had already made great strides in bringing the administration further into technology than any other administration. On Friday, as promised, the U.S. opened a new $9 million cybersecurity center.

The Motorola "Droid does" phone has been released. Of course, critics are reviewing this new Android phone as quickly as possible, and the reviews are raves.

Did you know there are businesses that will pay you cash to recycle your old unused computers, cell phones, iPods, digital cameras, and game consoles?