Honda has traditionally taken a wait and see approach, and the blossoming plug-in hybrid market is no exception. Assuming the Chevy Volt is released in 2010, Honda won’t be a competitor in that space. At least, that’s what its CEO Takeo Fukui says.

Remember the $100 OLPC laptop that wasn’t? Well, now the second version is  allegedly going to cost $75.  XO2 looks less like the XO than the Asus eeePC.  It looks like an ebook reader and is projected to be available in 2010.

Mice, especially lab mice, are constantly being subjected to the indignity of having strange things injected into their bodies.  After being injected with different lengths and thicknesses of  nanotubes, mice developed the same lung problems associated with asbestos use.

Linux has a strong development community and following in the land of personal computers, but so far it hasn’t gained a strong presence in the automotive industry. That may be about to change, and carmakers looking to save some cash in R&D may be able to leverage an upcoming Linux-based system.

An arrested child porn viewer blames web companies for making it too easy to access child pornography, but he admits he knew exactly what he was doing. WTF?

Facebook has been the topic of a lot of hot conversation involving Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google recently; however, recent statistics show that Facebook usage was down 10% in April from the previous year, and MySpace is still leaps and bounds ahead of the superior Facebook in usage.

Napster may have started as a service offering users the opportunity to share songs and albums illegally over the Internet, but today, almost six years since the original site was shut down, a new Napster has today announced it now offers 6 million DRM-free MP3s, including content from all four of the major record labels.

In a surprise move guaranteed to make torrent lovers currently being throttled even angrier, Comcast has invested in a small P2P company called GridNetworks. This move comes hot on the heels of Comcast being scrutinized by the FCC for its throttling practices relating to BitTorrent users and other P2P enthusiasts.

India wanted a way to monitor the data and voice traffic over Blackberrys but lacked the technology to do it itself.  India just does not have the ability to monitor Blackberry traffic and preserve the high level of security that RIM (Research In Motion) has built into their system.

NetFlix has entered the fray against Apple’s set top AppleTV by offering a $100 box in competition. Up until now, NetFlix had an On Demand style feature that only worked with a PC running Internet Explorer, a throw back most people were anxious to avoid.

Need a new phone? Want a better phone? We’d recommend the new $99 Helio Ocean, but the company often denies it carries phones. All jokes aside, news of the deal got us wondering, what are Helio’s intentions behind the sale?

GM is taking the inexorable movement toward green, energy efficient, and sustainable technology dead serious — finally. And the Chevy Volt is the most obvious evidence of that. But, with sagging sales in North America and the company’s highest R&D budget in a decade, it’s ready to take some risks. But if the coffers run dry too soon, is it time for the government to subsidize those efforts?

The Senate, in a bipartisan move, passed a resolution to overturn the FCC’s December 2007 ruling.  That ruling overturned decades of media ownership constraints.

What is the Clayton Act you ask?  The Clayton Act is the name of the 1914 Antitrust legislation.  Two House Reps decided that the FCC might not be the best choice for ensuring net neutrality and have entered new legislation that modifies the Antitrust laws.

DishNetwork has won the hearts of television addicts everywhere with the unveiling of their new HD DVR 722 boxes. The new boxes offer a ton of new features, but by far my personal favorite is the SlingBox and SlingCatcher integration.

I, like almost everyone else, was tired of Yahoo! sucking up the limelight, dancing around in the forefront while we all sighed impatiently with “get on with it” attitudes over Microsoft’s acquisition offer. However, Microsoft and Yahoo! are back at the table; this time, it seems that Microsoft is looking to buy only Yahoo! search, then move to acquire Facebook, which would allow the three-musketeer team to take on the web giant Google.

YouTube recently opened up its API to third party developers and web sites for the purpose of being more interactive and increasing the usefulness of its site as a source for video. Sony is jumping on the chance to add features to the PlayStation 3 by making it compatible with the YouTube API for video uploads.