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TiVo is teaming up with Nero to bring a new video recording solution to the PC. The companies announced Nero LiquidTV/TiVo PC on Monday. The product will offer TiVo functions from a computer, without the need for a set-top box. The system will be marketed toward both existing TiVo users and families that don’t currently have digital video recording devices. It will run $199 for the full hardware kit — including tuner card, a TiVo remote for the PC, and an IR blaster — or $99 for just the software by itself. You’ll also have to pay $99 a year for the TiVo service.

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TiVo Makes the PC Its Second Home

So it’s happened. Someone’s stolen your identity and now you’ve got a collection agency on your case, demanding payment for a car you didn’t buy or a credit card you didn’t take out. What to do? The first thing is not to panic, said Jay Foley, executive director of the Identity Theft Resource Center. Getting out of an identity theft hole takes careful preparation and attention to procedures to make sure your rights are preserved. The good news is that most consumers have very low liability for credit fraud.

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Identity Fraud, Part 2: Digging Yourself Out of the Wreckage

IBM is applying a common research model, collaboration between academia and the private sector, to the social media tech space. The IBM Center for Social Software is the first instance of a tech company establishing a center around these very popular emerging — but still consumer-focused — technologies, according to Big Blue. The Center’s mission is to develop ways to effectively apply next-generation Web 2.0 technologies within a corporate environment. Indeed, chief among its goals is designing IBM’s future Web 2.0 collaboration portfolio.

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IBM Gets Serious About Social Networking With New Research Center

For those social networking phenoms posting their every thought, drunken photo, tale of debauchery, and brush with the law on your MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter pages, a word of warning: You might want to tone yourself down if you’re looking for a job. There’s a 20 percent chance that your next employer is reading, judging and possibly rejecting your professional persona based on the private one you tout online. Based on a nationwide survey of more than 3,100 employers, CareerBuilder.com says 22 percent of employers are using social networking sites to research job candidates.

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Employers Use Social Nets to Weed Out Applicants Gone Wild

Since he started Facebook in college 4 1/2 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg has learned — sometimes painfully — that he can’t make significant changes to the popular online hangout without triggering an uproar among indignant users who preferred the status quo. But Zuckerberg, still only 24, is hoping he has found a way to ease the journey down a different road so he won’t have to issue public apologies like he did in each of the previous two years after springing new products on users.

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Like It or Not, New Facebook Look Is Here to Stay