Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened ...

Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened its Website. Nambu, tr.im’s parent company, had announced last weekend that it was closing the ...

First off, let me state that I'm seriously outside of my comfort zone on this, so if I'm coming off as woefully ignorant....it's because I am! I've been assisting my employer with a bit of web-dev ...

Digg changes the way its shortening service handles outgoing links, bringing more users to look at its own pages, instead of the sites it's linking too. Users are not happy. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET ...

Tr.im, a popular URL shortening service, announced over the weekend that it is discontinuing its operations. The shutdown could mean that shortened links contained in hundreds of thousands of Twitter ...

Hilary Mason is the chief scientist at Bitly, the URL redirection service with real-time tracking. This means she gets to learn a lot about user habits and how people share and consume links online.

A URL redirection flaw on the NBC News website could be used by scammers to give links a false sense of added trust. This is in addition to ongoing abuse of MSNBC’s publicly available Bitly API key, ...