Software security firm Sophos has just released a new study which finds that more than 60% of users don't apply security patches and more than half disable firewall software.

Thanks to Yahoo and a developer named dataffect, I can now track USGS earthquake data and map it on the good ole US of A. Or I can find Long Beach hotels close to the airport, courtesy of 'cityres'.

Wall Street Journal reports today that Google's Android mobile platform won't launch until Q4 and not Q3 as originally hoped. Hardly a surprise but it goes to show how difficult it can be to pull all of the pieces together on a platform -- no matter how promising the software -- when you are dependent on hardware vendor timetables.

According to an announcement made at Google Developers Conference in San Francisco, MySpace e-mail is getting a shot in the arm from Google Gears. Read our piece on Google Gears: Google Gears: The future of application development?