McAfee Internet Security 2012 ($80 for one year, three PCs as of January 29, 2012) finished 14th in our 2012 roundup of Internet security suites. Despite its low ranking, it performed well in some areas; its overall uneven showing, however, proved to be its undoing in this year's extremely competitive batch of suites.

Google Chrome has been recommended to Windows 7 users by Germany's cybersecurity agency because of the browser's sandbox and auto-update features.

Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimise that usage in order to cut costs.

Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365, will gain interoperability with non-Microsoft IM networks.

A free account from beloved file-sharing and -storage service Dropbox nets you 2GB of space. Want to boost that to 7GB? You can, and it won't cost you a dime extra.

I have two computers and one smartphone that I use regularly. And while that's more devices than I relied on just a few years ago, it's likely fewer than many of you use. Still, I sometimes have trouble finding the documents and data I need, wondering if I last viewed that video on my phone, or whether I saved that spreadsheet to my laptop. And accessing my files is just half the battle: I also need to back everything up, keeping all of my data secure in case of a lost or malfunctioning device.

Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date.

Facebook users today are complaining that the social network and its mobile app are running very slowly.

Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are.

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser, but it has limits developers must beware.