Brian Livingston

It's not too hard to choose a good Web-based reader for RSS (Really Simple Syndication), because there are only three major online players. But if you

Getting good numbers on the most popular online readers of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) isn't easy, as I said in my column last week. I published

If Microsoft starts supporting RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as a native feature of the new Internet Explorer 7.0 this year, RSS feeds will become even

Love is a beautiful thing. And it'll be really beautiful for a lot of Web users if it turns out to be true, as was announced last week, that Microsoft

The idea of providing health information on the Internet never really went away, it just had a little relapse. One of the Web's most well-known health

Computer users in the Western world had better adjust to the fact that excellent software is coming from China and will initially be available only in

I wrote in this space last week that IceSword, a new antivirus tool by a Chinese security research group, had gained the respect of even some hackers.

The creator of one of the world's most effective "rootkits" -- programs that can successfully hide from antivirus software -- has been defeated, at least

The fact that Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York State, filed suit last month against an alleged spyware company has been widely reported.

Experts in combating "spyware" and "adware" are now warning that the widely publicized security holes that plague Internet Explorer and other Web browsers

I wrote in this space last week that Microsoft had announced a new output format that threatens Adobe's de facto PDF standard. The new format, code-named

After months of speculation, Microsoft unveiled on April 25 at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) details on its new document format