From CRN: Facebook today is expected to reveal new, simplified privacy settings to its nearly 500 million users. The company has planned a conference call with reporters for 1:30 p.m. eastern to highlight some of the changes, several reports indicate.

The concern over Facebook's...

From InfoWorld: Google has released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service, which Websites can use to collect data about their visitors.

Google said it developed the tool "to provide Website visitors with more choice...

From DailyTech: Sony has long been working on a new generation of displays that are flexible enough to be bent and shaped around an object. The first of these flexible OLED displays to be seen from Sony surfaced in 2007. The display offered 16.7 million colors and was 0.3mm thick...

From eWeek: Google's Chrome team May 24 released stable builds loaded with HTML5 utilities for Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Google Chrome 5.0 sports improved JavaScript performance by 213 percent for the V8 benchmark and 305 percent for the SunSpider benchmark since Chrome...

From X-bit Labs: The global downturn of economy seems to be getting easier and the demand towards high-performance computer components is finally picking up. However, since makers of chips have refocused parts of their manufacturing capacities onto devices that will sell in a tough...

From CNET News.com: Robert Dotson, president and CEO of T-Mobile USA, plans to leave the wireless company in May of next year, after a new chief executive takes up the reins in February.

Dotson's posts will be filled by Philipp Humm, an executive with T-Mobile USA's parent company...

From CRN: What is happening at Foxconn? Another worker for the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer fell to his death Tuesday, bringing the number of Foxconn employees who have committed suicide this year to 10.

Li Hai, 19, worked at Foxconn for just 42 days before his...

From PC World: Shipments of laptops rose by 43.4 percent in the first three months of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to market research company Gartner. A large part of the growth was due to a 71 percent bump in netbook sales, which Gartner doesn't expect will...

From CRN: With Steve Jobs and Co. purported to be prepping to unleash the fourth-generation Apple iPhone on the gadget hungry masses, Walmart is slashing the price of its predecessor with Freddy Krueger-like precision, reducing the price of the 16 GB model of the iPhone 3GS to under...

From PC World: One of the most popular engines for searching for movies and music distributed via BitTorrent has been ordered to remove links to illegally shared content, marking a victory for the entertainment industry.

ISOHunt.com and three other Web sites are subject to an...