Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing, and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed.

Recognizing just how powerful a tool social-networking sites have become in orchestrating protests, rallies, and riots in the United States and beyond, the FBI is in the early stages of designing a complex system for monitoring tweets, Facebook status

Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions.

Jon Rubinstein, the force behind the WebOS mobile operating system, has quit Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since the company's acquisition of Palm in 2010. "Jon has fulfilled his commitment to HP. We wish him well," HP said in a statement. Rubinstein joined Palm in 2007 as chairman and became CEO in 2009 after a long stint at Apple, where he was part of the group that developed the iPod.

Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.