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Recent revelations about wide ranging and warrantless government surveillance don’t mean that email is dead – just that you can’t ever trust it again!

Thanks to the NSA, you can’t be too careful these days

Fewer Facebook friends, more time on the new MySpace, and a massive inbox purge are on my list of things to get done this year.

New Pew survey finds that people increasingly use their cell phones for all sorts of things, but what about actually making phone calls?

You may not be able to stop politicians from burying you in junk and harrassing you with robocalls, but you can make it harder for them to do it next time. Here's how.

Predicting the future, technologically provocative terms, will always stir up criticism. IBM takes a swing, but mostly misses. Predicting EEG-controlled mouse drivers will lead to mind reading is a stretch; to assume it's a good idea shows ignorance of how badly other people think.

Apple has built and delivered an excellent next-generation version of its iTunes music and media service. Unfortunately it is selling it as iCloud, which could have been so much more.

Verizon admitted in emails directly to customers that its data was among that stolen from email service company Epsilon, presumably widening the pool of potential victims.

You know how every so often your local newspaper reports about elderly people being swindled out of money by shady contractors who trick them into paying for unnecessary home repairs, like a repaved driveway or new gutters? To me, that's sort of what AOL is doing.

The New York Times Bits Blog has some interesting demographic data from research firm comScore that should confirm the suspicions of anyone with teens at home -- email is for old people.

Hack attacks are on the rise. And even if you're not the immediate target, you could still end up a victim.

Within five years the revolution that's going on in your living room will be complete and social networking's munge of email, chat and IM will have taken over much of the role of traditional business email, Gartner study predicts.