Well, well, well.  Isn’t that just like an American car manufacturer.  First they claim that they will meet more stringent fuel efficiency standards to get bail out money. Then they sue to get those same standards lowered.  Stupid people, smart Congress, stupid President Bush.

Apple and IBM have settled a legal dispute over a senior executive’s change of employer. Mark Papermaster will be allowed to take up his role at Apple, but must make regular legal vows that he hasn’t breached confidentiality agreements.

If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, chances are over time you’ve decided to follow quite a few people. If those people (or organizations for that matter) have started to get a bit overwhelming, then a new service called Filttr may be just what you need.

Amazon is making a foray into the mystery genre with a press conference on Feb. 9. And the sleuths of the tech media think they’ve found the killer product: a new edition of the Kindle reader.

Since its inception, Gmail has gotten a lot of attention for its massive email storage limits and ease of finding old email conversations, but what good is all that information if you’re not online? Now you can access your Gmail using Google Gears when you’re offline.

Twitter is slowly but surely morphing from a niche service used only by technology bloggers and industry people into a full-blown, mainstream phenomenon. And no group is more mainstream and prone to latch onto the latest trend than celebrities. Which is why Twitter is suddenly finding favor amongst the great and good.

If you have a modern, up to date cellphone, the chances are it has an in-built camera. What’s more, the chances are high that you disabled the sound it makes when you take a picture with it. Because it’s annoying. But you may not be able to do that anymore if a new law is passed in the U.S.

The Senate has approved plans to delay the digital TV switchover until June 12. Barring a shock vote in the House of Representatives, the delay will be confirmed this week, though not all broadcasters will wait.

President Barack Obama began his administration by following up on promises made during his campaign.  He started with an Executive Order to close down Gitmo within a year and meeting with military heads to start planning the withdrawal from Iraq.  Now his administration is following through on his environmental promises.

When you buy a second-hand music player, there’s always the chance you might get lucky and find the previous owner has left some music on it that takes your fancy. But one such buyer got something he could ever expected: 60 US military files including cellphone numbers of active servicemen.

The first release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download from Microsoft as of late yesterday. This latest version of Internet Explorer includes new features called accelerators and Web slices as well as InPrivate browsing.

This is written on a Netbook. When I fly in aircraft, which I do a lot,  every other person seems to have a Netbook. The price in Pan Thip Plaza in Bangkok, Thailand are now down to $200. In a sense, if we are to believe forecasts, they will rule the computer world.

The British authorities have been trying to mimic their American cousins by cracking down on illegal file-sharing and music piracy over the last couple of years. But the cornerstone of the efforts – an ISP-lead ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy which would have seen persistent offenders booted off the Internet has now been abandoned.

Some forms of porn are rightly illegal and condemned by all but the people involved. I’m thinking here of child pornography, which in order to be made sees the abuse of a child somewhere. But if the pornography shows an act carried out by two consenting adults, that should be allowed right? Wrong, according to the British government.

President Obama’s Inaugural Address spoke about “responsibility”, and “global warming” among other things.  As a response to the President’s Address, an Alpharetta training company is taking responsibility for its contribution towards global warming.

The Wall Street Journal has published a report describing the BlackBerry Storm as getting off to “a bumpy start”. It follows previous high-profile criticism including an overwhelmingly negative review in the New York Times.

Google is reportedly planning to launch an online storage system designed to completely replace hard drives. However, there’s no hard evidence that the scheme is definitely going ahead.