Stories by Megan Burger

Kaspersky false positive tags Google Adsense as Trojan

Following an update, Kaspersky Antivirus today falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script.

Is Wikipedia dying?

Research has shown that almost 50,000 editors left online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the first quarter of this year: 10 times the number who deserted the site in the same period of 2008.

Ikee iPhone worm hacker lands lucrative job

The hacker who created the Ikee iPhone worm because 'he was bored', may be smarter than he first appeared. Ashley Towns may have expressed no regrets over writing the bug, but he has subsequently landed a job with an Australian company that develops legitimate iPhone apps: mogeneration.

Twitter: Wednesday is our most miserable day

Vermont University professors Christopher Danforth and Peter Dodds have published Twitter and blogs based research that suggests that Wednesday is the most miserable day of the week.

British defence ministry instructs troops to use Twitter, Facebook

A PDF document from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) tells British troops how to use social networking websites such as Twitter or Facebook to keep the world informed of what they're up to.

Kingston launches 256GB USB flash drive

Kingston today released the world's largest capacity USB memory stick: a flash drive with 256GB worth of storage.