At this point the Apple Tablet has to be one of the most confirmed, unconfirmed products in the history of Apple. And the latest round of rumors just keeps adding fuel to the fire that this device is indeed real.

The Internet still has some way to go to replace television as the main form of entertainment, particularly when it comes to shared experiences. But in one country advertisers clearly believe it’s now the most effective media for marketing.

After wrapping up the worst fiscal year in the company’s history, Microsoft is slashing the compensation of its named executive officers. The company is also set to freeze salaries of all employees for the next year.

It’s a little known fact that Europeans are incapable of looking after themselves and using common sense. So we have to have our hands held (or forcibly tied behind our backs) by the people in charge of the European Union. The latest hand-holding directive concerns iPods and other PMPs (Portable Media Players) and how loud they blast the music into our ears. They clearly need to carry health warnings to protect our fragile bodies.

Branding and building a well-respected, well-known brand is an important part of life for companies of all shapes and sizes in this connected age. A positive brand name which is recognized far and wide is an important element of building customer loyalty and making a product an essential must-have. The iPhone has just been named the coolest brand of them all, with Apple doing particularly well. And technology as a whole dominates the list.

It would seem that the dream of free Wi-Fi networks that cover entire cities may have to remain just that, a dream.

Google is celebrating another landmark in online video having become the first organization to chalk up 10 billion clip views in the United States a single month. The figures come as the firm appears close to ending a nine-month standoff which has kept Warner music videos off YouTube.

Amazon partnered with Princeton to provide 50 free Kindle DX e-readers to students at the University. However some students found the Kindle so difficult to use that they would rather go back to lugging around textbooks.

With over 300 million users, Facebook is like a country. And like any country, residents think differently from each other. What better way to gauge opinion on a topic of the day than to create a poll? Although if you’re going to create a Facebook poll asking “Should Obama be killed?” you have to consider the consequences. Which could include a visit from the Secret Service.

In what seems like an endless stream of mergers as of late, it was announced this morning that Xerox is purchasing Affiliated Computer Services.

Google has launched a new feature to make it easier to find the precise information you want from lengthier Web pages. At the moment it appears to work most prominently with Wikipedia, but the search giant says it could theoretically work with most sites.

At least one Washington Post staffer has shuttered his account on Twitter based on new guidelines from the company forbidding journalists from expressing their personal opinions online. How can journalists participate in social media without saying a word?

There was I thinking that the problem of spam had been pretty much solved due to spam filters and Web users applying a little more common sense these days than they used to. But no, it seems that people are still receiving tons of spam each year, and some of those people are even responding to the unsolicited email. Many are buying Viagra. And making things hard for themselves.

Intel’s short term plans include the production of system-on-a-chip products that will compete directly with ARM chips now being manufactured by Broadcom, Qualcomm, Samsung and Texas Instruments.

Australia, a country about twice the size of the entire European Union, has begun a daring and complex project to bring very high-speed fiber-optic broadband to virtually all of its citizens.

As the Kindle becomes more popular, it would seem to be a natural target for third party developers, much like the iPhone, to extend it from just a portable re-book reader into a multi-purpose device.

Some have called the Internet the new Wild West without law or order. It seems the hot issues that have been cropping up lately revolve around distinguishing the line between free speech and harassment. The Texas police have had enough as they are now planning on arresting those impersonating and insulting them on the Web.