MANILA -- International crime syndicates are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook to lure Filipinos into becoming drug mules, Philippine authorities have warned.

Recently caught drug traffickers have reported making initial contact with their foreign employers through a range of Internet forums, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman Derrick Arnold Carreon said.

New York -- Today is the World IPv6 day the day when hundreds of internet giants, including Facebook, Google, Akamai, Yahoo and Limelight Networks are amongst some of the major organisations participating in the first worldwide "test flight" of a major engineering upgrade to the Internet's infrastructure. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

IT Expert Offers Tips To Protect Your Network From Social Network-Based Bugs

Facebook isn’t just a place to hook up with ex-girlfriends from high school anymore. Companies large and small are now using it for networking and legitimate business tasks. Unfortunately, it can also be a place to hook your company’s network up with some nasty viruses.

Jessica Biel has overtaken Beyoncé as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee, Inc. Fans searching for “Jessica Biel” or “Jessica Biel downloads,” “Jessica Biel wallpaper,” “Jessica Biel screen savers,” “Jessica Biel photos” and “Jessica Biel videos” have a one in five chance of landing at a Web site that’s tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware. Searching for the latest celebrity news and downloads can cause serious damage to one’s personal computer.

Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, has been found guilty of illegal practices by the European Commission, which has imposed a record 1.06 billion-euro ($1.45 billion) fine on the chipmaker. The commission also ordered Intel to cease any illegal rebates and other practices that were meant to eliminate AMD as a potential market competitor. The ruling, which has been expected since earlier this week, comes as an important step in a case that has been going on since 2001, when the EU Commission started investigating into the chip maker's business practices, following a complaint from AMD.

Linköping, Sweden (May 12) - Xcerion announced May 5 that icloud, the online service that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer, is offered globally in nine more languages. Previously icloud is available in Chinese, English, Filipino, German, Portuguese for Brazil, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.  New languages include Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese for Portagal and Romanian.

Microsoft will make Windows 7 available to businesses and consumers in time for the typically busy holiday shopping season in the fourth quarter of the year, according to company officials.

After months of waiting, Digg is finally integrated to Facebook Connect.

Google has released a new Web-based version of Gmail that gives iPhone and Android phone users a more sophisticated version of the online e-mail service, including access to messages that's faster and that works even when offline.

One chief improvement touted by Google is the ability to archive or delete multiple messages at a time. Using what Google calls a "floaty bar" that follows inside the active screen you can select multiple messages for one-click archiving or deleting. (see the YouTube video below demonstrating the new features).

Arrington initially reported that Google and Twitter were in "late-stage negotiations" but he backed off that assertion slightly in a later post in which he said the acquisition talks were "still fairly early stage."

Conficker is a malicious worm that has so far infected 9 million Windows-based PCs since it was first detected in October 2000.

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 has been released and can be downloaded now for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.

Apple Inc. previewed the next generation of its iPhone software. Apple showed only a handful of the “100 new features” in iPhone 3.0 more will be announce when the company launches the update this summer.

IPhone 3.0 will be a free update to iPhone owners, but it will cost iPod Touch users $9.95, the same price that Apple used when it rolled out iPhone 2.0 last year.

What were you doing 20 years ago?

It all began 20 years ago today with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order.

Tim Berners-Lee, now famous as the founder of the World Wide WebIt all began 20 years ago today with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order.

Apple will be holding an event next Tuesday, March 17 to preview new software version 3.0 for the iPhone at its corporate campus in Cupertino, California.

An email invitation on Thursday that it will provide a "sneak peek" at the iPhone 3.0 software, along with information about the new software kit that third-party vendors use to create applications for the device.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is seeking to blur the line between the telephone and the computer even further with the introduction of Google Voice on Thursday.

Friday is a good day to have a laugh at Microsoft's expense - don't you think. Thought so.

So they finally decided to get with the compatibility program with Internet Explorer 8. But they may have drug their heels just a little too long and now they are paying the price.

Mozilla is claiming a download record for the release of Firefox 3

In the first 24 hours the web browser was available the software was downloaded more than 8 million times, says Mozilla.

Statistics from the download servers are being scrutinised to produce an official figure that will be passed to the Guinness World Record organisation.

Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) available to the general public. The new version is the first upgrade to the web browsing program for more than five years...

New features include tabbed browsing, the ability to search the net directly and an anti-fraud system to thwart phishing attacks.

For millions of people worldwide Yahoo remains synonymous with the internet itself, but after Microsoft walked away from buying the firm what does the future hold?...

The famous exclamation mark at the end of the Yahoo! logo has seemingly become more of a question mark in recent months.