Google Voice Now Supports Phone Number Porting

If you’d like to port your existing phone number to Google Voice, you can now do so for $20.

For current Google Voice users, this means you’ll no longer have to remember and use two separate numbers, one direct line and one Google Voice line, to get all of Google Voice’s features, including visual voicemail, conference calling, call screening and more.

Facebook to Make Credits Mandatory for All Onsite Gaming

Facebook’s virtual currency, Facebook Credits, will become the official coin of the realm beginning July 1, 2011. On that day, all social game developers on the Facebook platform will be required to process payments through Facebook Credits.

Facebook Apps' New Access to Contact Information Concerns Security Experts

On Friday, Facebook announced that it will allow application developers to request access to a user’s address and mobile phone number. Although the company is making strides to point out that the request is optional and must be explicitly granted by the user, the feature is already drawing criticism from privacy advocates and security experts.

Google phone bug misdirects texts

Google says it will fix a mobile phone bug that mistakenly sends text messages to the wrong people.

The glitch, which has hit a small portion of the company's Android mobile phones, first emerged last year.

Get Your Old PC Running Like New Again

Now that the new year is upon us, many people may be thinking about dumping their slower, outdated hardware and starting with a clean slate. But why shell out hundreds, if not thousands for a new system? There are several ways to give your PC a makeover that will get it running as good as new for much less.

10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology

Your gadgets and computers, your software and sites — they are not working as well as they should. You need to make some tweaks.

But the tech industry has given you the impression that making adjustments is difficult and time-consuming. It is not.