Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL and convert it to a short one for publication on a ...

The options for shortening long URL’s to a more manageable length are quickly proliferating with both Google and Facebook getting into the link shortening game. The shortened URL’s are easier to send ...

A URL used to say something about a Web site's owner - a memorable name that replaced a complex set of numbers that were used to access a Web page. Then things changed. In today's world of Twitter ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

Twitter is continuing to add features to its service which have previously been served by third-party companies. The other day, Twitter announced their own photo sharing service, and now the company ...

An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate ...

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 ...

Two security researchers have published research exposing the potential privacy problems connected to using Web address shortening services. When used to share data protected by credentials included ...

For most of us, April 30 was just another day. But if you’re a security expert, you may recall that it was the day that nearly 20 percent of the hundreds of millions of spam emails clogging the Web ...

The move, which was unveiled last August, 'didn't move relevant security metrics,' according to a Google staff software engineer on the Chrome team. Google has called quits on the notion of truncating ...