The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has started an investigation into Google’s collection of data from unsecured wireless networks, the office said in a statement on Tuesday. Data protection authorities in France, Italy and Germany are already investigating Google’s Street View service, after the company said last month that its camera cars mistakenly collected data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks... 

Is Mozilla becoming too much like Microsoft? In a strange bit of irony, Mozilla, the foundation behind the popular open-source Firefox browser, increasingly relies on Microsoft’s playbook to promote Firefox adoption. No, Mozilla executives aren’t secretly plotting an open-source monopoly to replace Microsoft’s, and, indeed, are focusing precisely on doing the opposite. But the answer to the “Why... 

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) yesterday unveiled its first attempt at a mobile Twitter application: Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones. The app’s currently only available to beta-testers, including yours truly–unless of course you seek it out via “unofficial” channels. RIM’s Twitter for BlackBerry Smartphones Application Yesterday, I posted an image-walkthrough of the app to...