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Parents are making an effort to talk to their kids about Internet safety, but kids are still willing to talk to strangers on IM, post personal information about themselves on social networking sites, or be the target of online bullying, according to a Tuesday study.

A quarter in which Yahoo weathered multiple takeover attempts and a proxy fight proved to be a negative one, with an increase in revenue but a decline in profits.

Four top consumer-electronic companies are backing a wireless multimedia CE interface developed by Amimon, by forming a special interest group devoted to the technology.

At the Gamefest 2008 event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that all Games for Windows Live multiplayer features are now free.

The search monolith is snatching up Web addresses that are misspellings or variations (some risqué) of its name, as well as stockpiling seemingly random ones. Here's a sampling.

Online shopping addicts beware. A TiVo-Amazon partnership will soon allow TiVo customers to purchase items via Amazon.com without ever leaving the couch.

At the Gamefest 2008 Conference keynote Tuesday, Microsoft chief technology officer Chris Satchell revealed updated plans for the company's XNA player-created games initiative.

Apple's problems with its MobileMe service continue, as some customers still report that they have not been able to access email on the service after several days. Now an upgrade to Apple's iTunes software has added a control panel applet without notification or permission.

MySpace on Tuesday issued its support for the OpenID standard, and announced that users will be able to add profile content to Flixster and Eventful as part of MySpace's Data Availability program.

One of the many things that researchers agreed on in the major coordinated fix of a flaw in the DNS earlier this month was to withhold details on the vulnerability itself in order to give users enough time to apply updates. Too bad, another researcher spilled the beans.

It's worth reminding: there is a large category of malicious programs that present themselves as antispyware or antivirus programs. We recently came across one which claims to have won a number of awards, including the PC Magazine Editors' Choice.

Blogger Michael Arrington said this week that he hopes to help spearhead a movement to build a low-cost tablet designed around the Firefox browser.

Over the weekend, Intel made a few price adjustments to its microprocessor lineup, with the largest cut being made to its E8500 Core 2 Duo processor.

It's true that Asian cellphones often get the newest features long before their North American counterparts, but the latest Japanese version of the iPhone 3G has something that hopefully won't be deemed necessary any time in the near future.

Apple recorded another record quarter in terms of Macintosh sales, but analysts attending Apple's announcement were concerned about a new product to be announced that will apparently hurt Apple's margins.

Parts of the Amazon.com S3 cloud computing infrastructure were down for at least 6 hours, according to news reports and the company's own health dashboard. But customers don't seem to be concerned.

Spend a few quality moments with the Facebook you know and love; the social networking site this week will start rolling out its revamped profiles.

Panasonic announced new digital cameras and camcorders at a press conference in New York City. Most of the company's new products emphasize a greater degree of sensitivity than earlier models.

The Internet company has reached an agreement with billionaire investor Carl Icahn whereby Icahn will abandon his proxy contest for Yahoo in exchange for a seat on the company's board and two board members of his choice.

Lexmark's new all-in-one printers are evenly split between personal and professional models.

Outdoor testing of white spaces devices kicked off this week in Maryland, and while device producer Motorola claimed the tests were a success, white spaces opponents were not exactly convinced.

After previous misfires, we probably should have just assumed that this morning's promise of free Wi-Fi for iPhone users was just too good to be true. It was.

CherryPal's cloud computer offers 2 watts of power, a 4GB SSD, a Firefox browser, apps, and 50GB of storage in the "cloud," all for $249. What more do you need?

Wii MotionPlus -- the Wii Remote attachment revealed earlier this week that adds extra precision to motion controls -- poses an interesting conundrum for Nintendo: How can it make games supporting it without running the risk of fracturing its market?

Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton says the company has considered putting a hard drive in the PlayStation Portable.

With another 666,700 Wiis sold last month, Nintendo has taken the U.S. console lead from Microsoft, with the Xbox 360 selling less than a third of the amount of Wiis in June.

The Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday released an update to the company's heralded new web browser, version 3.0.1, with fixes for security, stability, a printing issue, and problems involving running Firefox 2 simultaneously.

For years, bleacher bums could pretend that their home run ball was hit by Barry Bonds, rather than Duane Kuiper. No longer. Major League Baseball will now validate home runs with a special holographic sticker, which fans can verify in an online database.