A British clothing company has released GPS-enabled jackets to help parents keep track their children’s location or at least their children’s expensive jacket.

Southern California may be doing a credible impression of Hell, with over half a million acres of blazing inferno, but it’s set to become a wireless haven as AT&T promises to offer three weeks of free wireless connection in hundreds of hotspots for refugees.

Motorola has developed technology to scan voice calls and text messages for targeted information about where customers are and what they are doing. Prompting major concerns from privacy groups.

T-Mobile, a leading cell phone service provider to the U.S, has recently instituted a unique new optional feature for customers known as “T-Mobile HotSpot@Home,” which allows users to seamlessly make phone calls over their WiFi without using their minutes for $20 a month.

It seems that Facebook employees enjoy seeing whose profiles you looked at while relaxing on their lunch breaks.

In a recent episode of Judge Judy, the TV judge finds herself slightly confused after attempting to pronounce the name of the computer game phenomenon, World of Warcraft.

Video games are blamed for a lot of things these days, and are often cited as the cause of school shootings, violence, and crime, so it’s nice to be able to report for once on something positive a game is doing for society.

Only a true geek would go walking and think "Look at all this energy I’m wasting".  Maybe it’s because they stereotypically have less energy to spend before shortness of breath sets in.  Whatever the inspiration, a new product in development by CSIRO (Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) could harness that energy to mean you never run out of batteries again.

The OLPC project is looking to use cows as the power source for remote networks and PCs – no cow pies involved.

I don’t really know anyone who likes to be referred to in a derogatory way but the N-word seems to evoke the most emotion of all the derogatory and defamatory words that one’s imagination can conjure.

If you are in to high-def then you either belong to the HDDVD or Blu-Ray camp and the HDDVD camp has an upper-hand right now, those players can be had for as little as $200.

On Comcast’s front web page, they have the Top Five Questions Customers Ask but strangely none of them include: Are you going to filter out my content? The answer is probably yes. People who sign-up for broadband access most likely never ask that question.

Just because it’s evidence doesn’t mean it’s going to happen, so don’t get mad at us if your Xbox 360 never gets Microsoft’s IPTV. So what exactly is the evidence?

Google attracts hordes of bloggers and opinion-shovelers uploading ten sourceless articles a week in the hope they’ll be the one to correctly guess what happens. A flock of seagulls trailing a ship – noisy, annoying, they all look the same and they feed on the scraps left by people who are actually going somewhere. Here I list top five things people like to say about Google, in the hope that we can all agree these are now officially “Done”.

In a move that’s sure to win the company the support of consumer advocates, Apple Inc. has imposed limits on who can buy their hot iPhone, and how they can pay for it.

The record industry has asked UK ISPs to permanently ban illegal file sharers from accessing the Internet. And if they don’t agree to the harsh new punishment? Then the government will step in and increase the official legislation meant to deal with the problem.

Second Life emerged victorious in its first encounter with NBC’s The Office. But the episode hinted at more Second Life cameos to come.