Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that some New York coffee shops were pulling the plug on customers that park themselves at tables, open their laptops, and hang out for hours, buying...

Keyboard cat is a full-fledged phenomenon. Even my mom knows about it, and I wasn't the one to tell her (Stephen Colbert was). The meme stems from a lovable costumed feline whose owner gets...

(Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET) Captcha, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is a method used by many Web sites to fight against...

There was a time, not long ago, when the power Twitter users were gaga for Twhirl. This Air app gave (and still gives) you quick access to different views of your Twitter network, as well as your...

There's a scam spreading through Twitter. Direct messages (DMs) are showing up in Twitter accounts with appealing come-ons to visit a site on blogspot.com. The text is, "hey! check out this funny...

Google is betting that real-time news (or something closely resembling it) will attract more financially oriented visitors to its Google Finance pages. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Wonder what the French really think? The search giant offers a native-language view of the Web through translated search results. Also new: a dictionary service. Originally posted at Deep Tech

On Friday night, MTV will be showing its 2009 Woodie Awards online, utilizing a new spherical-video platform developed by Calgary, Alberta-based Immersive Media. Originally posted at The Web Services Report

Gmail's got desktop hardware now, though not from Google. The Gboard is a new Gmail-centric keyboard with colored shortcut keys that let you zip around your in-box. Originally posted at Web Crawler

The social network has long since fallen from favor in the U.S. Its redesign places its focus more squarely in Asia, where the youth market has stuck with it. Originally posted at The Social