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A swipe of your smartphone could soon give you access to your hotel room. by Chris Brandrick The Holiday Inn is set to start trialing the use of smartphones as room keys.The chain will test the entry system at two hotels to begin with, and roll out the… more »

By RANDALL STROSS FACEBOOK now has more than 400 million active users, up from only 50 million as recently as 2007. If social networking still resembled a young, hip downtown nightclub scene — one day a site is hot, the next it’s not — we might expect… more »

By RIVA RICHMOND THE Web is a fount of information, a busy marketplace, a thriving social scene — and a den of criminal activity. Criminals have found abundant opportunities to undertake stealthy attacks on ordinary Web users that can be hard to stop… more »

Why is it that just when you need to get something from the Internet quickly, your computer seems to grind to a halt? It can be maddening – we’ve all been there. When your computer slows down, a number of causes may race through your head. Perhaps the… more »

By Chris Crum Since Facebook announced its plans to take over the web, there has been a lot of talk about privacy concerns, and about deletion of Facebook profiles. There is also concern about the lack of openness in Facebook's Open Graph initiative. O… more »