There's been a lot of angst in the UK recently about possible health effects of mobile phone masts, and let's face it, most of us at some time have wondered whether they really are safe. A major new study by scientists at the University of Essex has found that mobile phone masts are not the cause for the short-term symptoms that some people experience when near them.

Digg is joining forces with Microsoft for the next three years. Today Digg's founder Kevin Rose announced that Microsoft has been chosen to serve all of Digg's ads –and they'll also be responsible for finding Digg's advertisers.

For forty-five minutes on July 24th, 365 Main lost power to upwards of 40% of the websites hosted at its data center in San Francisco, CA.

In a long requested move, MySpace has finally struck a blow at one of the biggest complaints with the popular social-networking site: sex offenders.

With the popularity of social networking sites continuing to increase, they have become the target of online predators and criminals. Now VDA Labs researchers have found a vulnerability in the LinkedIn IE toolbar, version 3.x.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking site, Facebook, is being hounded by three students from Harvard, claiming they had hired him for programming services on their website. The three allege that Mark Zuckerberg stalled them for months, before releasing his own version of their site. A Boston Judge will be deciding this week whether the three men's claims are legitimate enough to continue with a lawsuit.

Some new iPhone owners have been complaining about the somewhat short battery life of the iPhone and the biggest problem of all, it's not user replaceable though Apple is quite happy to replace it for you should it die for the low low price of $85.  Now, it is trying something new that won't cost you several hours of wages, tips for longer iPhone battery life.

Google is testing a new homepage design on its Taiwan and Hong Kong sites.  There is order in this chaos, these pages are designed to take advantage of the higher broadband speeds available in those countries and have been optimized thusly.

It seems that Apple wants you to spend even more of your hard earned money on accessories to that end it has filed a patent for a new kind of charger.  As it stands now, you can share your chargers among your iPhone and sometimes among other devices but that will no longer be true if Apple has its way.

Microsoft has the ability to spin the numbers any way they want and while I doubt very much that there are actually 60 million installations of Vista out there, the company claims to have sold 60 million copies of Vista.  This includes copies shipped to OEMs, copies sitting on machines that have not yet been sold and copies that consumers have actually bought and installed (which is very few, for now).

Stockholders can be a fickle bunch, especially the majority holders and fears had spread that the iPhone would not sell as well as Wall Street had predicted.  Not only did the iPhone sell well, it went above expectations but those first few hours after launch were a bumpy ride for new iPhone owners.

It seems the BBC is moving away from what it was set up to provide – services for everyone, free of commercial interests and political bias – with the organization set release its iPlayer to a Windows-only audience.

A 22-year-old intern said today he's the "scapegoat" for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers.

Currently, the name of the game in the compact and ultra-compact point and shoot market is cramming more megapixels onto tiny CCD sensors which only really increases noise and reduces details.  Manufacturers should start realizing that there is an "in-between" market that doesn't want a SLR camera but wants performance equivalent to one.

Today's hi-tech prostitutes are leaving the streets, and turning to the Internet to find their next 'John.' A recent prostitution sting in Chicago, Illinois, uncovered many hookers who used Craigslist, the popular online classifieds service, to advertise their special services.