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Kathy Williamson was over in the Pigeon Forge area in early December and stopped into a Harry & David store in Sevierville, Tenn., to buy candy. The change she received from the clerk was correct, but she noticed something odd about one of the singles given her. (c) 2011, The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.). Distributed [...]

Now there’s another reason to be careful about what you post on Facebook: Your insurance company may be watching. Nathalie Blanchard found out the hard way. (c) 2011, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Facebook has quietly opened the door for application developers to request a user’s addresses and phone numbers. (c) 2011, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

A former Florida high school student scored what her attorneys call a victory for the First Amendment last week with the end of her two-year legal battle over her Facebook comments about a teacher. (c) 2010, Sun Sentinel. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

CityVille has surpassed FarmVille as the most popular application on Facebook. (c) 2010, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Evenings at the Svanascini home in Palos Heights, Ill., Kathy, Mike and their two teenage sons are as likely to be huddled around their laptops as they are the television set. (c) 2010, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

From a drab office in this ultra-Orthodox Jewish stronghold, three devout young women hunch over computers and surf the Internet – looking for pornography, celebrity gossip and a laundry list of other items banned by their rabbis. (c) 2010, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Cyberforensics, the science of finding and securing digital evidence buried deep within company networks, is fast emerging as a global industry. (c) 2010, USA Today. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

The U.S. Naval Academy’s new superintendent wants his campus to become a center for cybersecurity education, with a $100 million building and a slate of new classes devoted to the emerging discipline, he said Friday in his first interview since taking the job in August. (c) 2010, The Baltimore Sun. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

In China’s young Internet industry, competitors draw blood. When Binghao Cheng launched a social networking site two years ago, he named it Kaixin, or Happiness. But he didn’t have the money to spare to buy the domain name “Kaixin.” So he used Kaixin001, which was not already owned by someone else. (c) 2010, San Jose [...]