One of the Internet's foremost URL shortners, Bit. ly, redesigned its simple user interface (UI) earlier this week by rolling out a brand new, somewhat more complicated UI, which - going by the early reviews - is not only a lackluster overhaul, but also causes confusion with an overview of the Bit. ly fundamentals.

Within months of its acquisition of a startup called Summify, which chiefly collected news from the users' different social networks and compiled it in daily emails, popular microblogging service Twitter has now started sending a weekly email digest which comprises the "most relevant" tweets and stories shared by people they follow.

In a move which brings along a number of minor improvements to Google’s Chrome web browser, the Internet search giant has recently released its Chrome version 17, which boasts a new feature that allows web address preloading, as well as notably better protection against malicious downloads.

According to a Tuesday advisory issued by a US organization called Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), there is a security flaw in the Wi-Fi Protected Set-up (WPS) protocol, which is a popular tool packaged into the Wi-Fi routers to facilitate the attachment of additional devices to a secure Wi-Fi network.

Two new Motorola tablets, viz. the Droid Xyboard 8.2 and the Droid Xyboard 10.1, have become available online via Verizon Wireless.

The Droid Xyboard 10.1-inch tablet is available in three storage capacities, viz. 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, which cost $529.99, $629.99 and $729.99 respectively.

The 8.2-inch model comes in 16GB and 32GB capacities, with price tags of $429.99 and $529.99 respectively.

All the models of the new Motorola tablets require a two-year service contract with Verizon.

According to iDownloadBlog and several other blog posts, it is advisable that the iPhone jailbreakers give the new Siri port H1Siri a miss because it not only involves the running of illegal code but can also apparently break the iPhone.

The latest hack has come from the `CD-Dev Team' of Chinese hackers who had reportedly planned only a small test run, but the code got leaked. As a result, the hack is quite different from the two hacks which emerged in October and November.

It has been revealed by the Chaos Computer club that they did run the spy operation to figure out information on the Trojan house program that is of essence to them. This has come after a lot of speculation already being made about the possible spy scandal, in Germany.