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TEXTING IS THE NEW CALLING, and with so many texts flying back and forth, it's a good idea to make sure you're getting your message across as clearly as possible. [...]

IF YOU'RE STILL WAITING for your reservation to come up as Microsoft rolls out Windows 10, we can't blame you for being eager to get your virtual hands on Microsoft's [...]

If you're like a lot of people, when it comes time to renew your security software, you may ask yourself, 'Do I really need to upgrade to the latest version?' [...]

Your Web browser is Probably the most-used application on your PC. You check your email in it, you write in it, you collaborate with coworkers in it, you use it [...]

YOU WANT SECURITY software that's as close to perfect as possible. After all, if just a single piece of malware slips through your defenses, it can wreak havoc on your [...]

Have security suites reached the point where they all work? From afar, it seems that way: All of them attempt to protect you from viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, and other [...]

The bad news: at some point, your cell phone is likely to go missing. Whether it falls out of your pocket in a cab, or you leave it unattended in [...]

Good security advice can be hard to find. Lots of security experts offer help, but not all of their tips are accurate or up-to-date, and many address PC security only. [...]

IF YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT A new version of your antivirus software in a couple of years, now may be a good time to do so. Malware is evolving faster than [...]

DEPENDING ON WHOM you ask, paying for antivirus software is either a good (even necessary) investment, or a total rip-off. But you can find plenty of reasons to choose a [...]

THOSE PHOTOS OF JESSICA ALBA MAY BE MURDER ON YOUR PC. That Google search result that looks as if it answers all your questions may do nothing but create a [...]

LAB TESTED Of all the software on your PC, the Web browser may be the most important tool you use each day--but you may not give it much thought. The [...]

PCW Test Center WINDOWS VISTA NEVER was particularly speedy in most people's eyes. Whether it deserved the reputation or not, the word on the street was that Vista was both […]

They may be tiny, but pocket camcorders are a gigantic force to be reckoned with, thanks to the rapid growth in popularity of Pure Digital's Flip line of video cameras. […]

MICROSOFT ISSUED the first beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 in the middle of December, with promises that it will release the final SP2 in the first half […]

GOT A GAME in your Steam library that you no longer play and just want gone? Maybe you bought something that turned out to be awful and you just don't [...]

BACK in JANUARY, Microsoft first stated that Windows 10 would be free for the 'supported lifetime of the device' you install it on. That wording caused some confusion: What the [...]

AS IF YOU needed another reason to keep your PC's software up to date, a recent report (go.pcworld.com/kaspersky_report) from security firms Kaspersky Labs and Outpost24 indicates that old, unpatched software [...]

This month's installment of Bugs and Fixes is brought to you by the letters X and P, and by the number 23. That is, time is running out on Windows [...]

IT SHOULD GO without saying that protecting your privacy online is a big deal Unfortunately, although Web users are generally good at not giving out their information to just any [...]

SMARTPHONE MALWARE ATTACKS get a lot of attention, but you're much more likely to lose your device than you are to contract a smartphone virus infection. And you're just as [...]

LIKE MANY OTHER topics we cover here at PCWorld, security has a language of its own. Listening to a group of security experts carry on a conversation, for instance, can [...]

2011 HAS BEEN the year of the data breach. In March, hackers infiltrated the databases for marketing firm Epsilon, and made off with millions of email addresses (find.pcworld. com/72125). In [...]

WINDOWS 8 IS on its way, and it will be a departure from the Windows we know and love today. That was the message Microsoft sent in a presentation given [...]

The article offers step-by-step instructions for deleting one's Facebook account.

An analysis is only valuable if it includes all the major players, and yours often do not ['Free, Paid Antivirus Compared,' Reviews and Rankings, January]. Any review of antivirus software [...]

The article offers instructions on how to delete or disable an account on the social media app Facebook.

TODD DAVIS, CEO of identity-theft protection company LifeLock, used his own Social Security number in his business's ads as a sign of his confidence in the service. In May, it [...]

IMPROVING performance is one of Microsoft's design goals with Windows 7, and many early reviewers (including ours) have said that the new Windows operating system seems peppier than Vista. But […]

Plus: Fixes for Adobe Reader and Flash Player, and a Safari for Mac update. ONE THEME IN security is to update your software early and often--and this month's bug roundup [...]

The Opera 12.15 update addresses a small collection of security issues affecting the browser. One fix corrects a low-rated vulnerability involving cookies that could allow a malicious website to get [...]

On the Mac front, Apple recently released the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 update, which features assorted bug fixes and security patches. The fixes include corrections for flaws discovered in [...]

With the release of Firefox 20, Mozilla continues its flagship browser's march toward version infinity--and provides a number of timely security fixes too. The latest edition corrects 11 security issues, [...]

THE UNENDING STREAM of security fixes continues. In this month's roundup of new releases and patches, we have another version of Firefox, a fix for Opera, and an update to [...]

Like previous Lego Mindstorms kits, the EV3 has as its keystone a programmable brick that serves as the brains of your creations. The EV3 Intelligent Brick includes such new features [...]

THIS MONTH, WE look at an important fix for Internet Explorer, a Google Chrome update, and some security patches for Mac users. Internet Explorer Fix Microsoft recently released an update [...]