Keir Thomas

Note: This review addresses v4.09 beta.

Once a Mac-only open source application, the v4 release of Cyberduck is now available for Windows too. The application started out as a simple File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program, which most people use to upload files to Websites, but has since grown to be a general-purpose upload and download tool that can connect to a variety of services--including Google Docs' file storage area.

Windows Phone 7 hackers ChevronWP7 are soon to release a Microsoft-approved app that allows users to install non-approved software. But that doesn't mean the group and the software giant have kissed and made up.

In a catch-me-if-you-can explanation of why it has targeted the likes of Sony, the U.S. Senate, an FBI affiliate, and online porn sites, the LulzSec hacking group says it plans to keep having fun until it gets caught.

Apple is sitting on at least one refresh of its Mac notebook line, waiting for the new version of its operating system to be released in July.

That's according to sources quoted by AppleInsider, which says that new MacBook Air models featuring Intel Sandy Bridge processors and the Thunderbolt expansion port have been ready for some time, but Apple doesn't want to release them featuring the old Mac OS X 10.6 operating system. This was released in June 2009.

Facebook users are more trusting, have more close relationships and are more socially involved with others compared to the average American, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.

Google has launched Me on the Web, a new tool allowing anyone with a Google account to monitor what personal information about them appears online.

Online theft is a fact of life nowadays, but yesterday a BitCoin user woke to find his haul of virtual currency had been plundered.

Lady Gaga is the most tech-savvy pop star ever, and now her manager, Troy Carter, is an investor in a new URL shortening and redirection service. Both Lady Gaga, naturally, and rapper 50 Cent are early adopters of the service.

A new biography of Steve Jobs will be published in August but with a difference: it's a 32-page comic book.

Facebook has questioned the accuracy suggesting that the social networking giant's popularity in North America is declining. The Inside Facebook website had suggested that Facebook saw a drop of 7.3 million users in the United States and Canada in May, and that Facebook had failed to grow by its usual 20 million users per month in both April (13.9 million) and May (11.8 million).

The Windows operating system for smartphones is expected to gain market share in the next few years thanks to Nokia, eventually leapfrogging the iOS system used on Apple's iPhone. But Google Android will remain atop the field.

That's according to International Data Corporation's latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report.