Now that the Sirius and XM merger has been officially completed, having received the approval from both the Department of Justice back in May of 2008 and more recently from the FCC, they are now operating under the official name of Sirius XM Radio Inc.

If all goes according to plan, T-Mobile will launch an Apple-like App Store of its own beginning this fall. Their plans are to open up to developers and create one store that will be for all of their customers and all of their phones, which are said to include everything from their feature phones to their smartphones.

Craig Feigin, a 23 year-old student at the University of Florida has recently been arrested for installing some peeping tom style software on unsuspecting women’s computers.

Some of the latest information coming from Microsoft has it looking towards the future and the possible replacement to the Windows OS. Reports are surfacing of a new operating system that is being built brand new from the ground up, one that will no longer rely on the current Windows code base. The latest OS is currently known as Midori and will offer more of a cloud computing service, one that will not depend as much on the quality of the hardware, a common problem with today’s versions of Windows.

Cloud computing, a term that is becoming more and more common with today’s online centric world. Overall its a pretty generic term, one that seems to be being used in one form or another by various companies, however that has not stopped Dell from applying for their own trademark on the term “cloud computing.”

Gary McKinnon, a British computer expert has just lost his extradition appeal and will soon be brought over to the US to face trial for what is still referred to as “the biggest military hack of all time”.

AOL has suddenly become more serious in the world of social media, they recently introduced AIM BuddyUpdates which allows AIM users to see all their current buddies lifestream updates on the web, but it seems that was not a big enough jump into the market for them and they have also purchased SocialThing.

T-Mobile has introduced a new feature called Family Allowances that is sure to put a smile of the faces of parents nationwide. With this new plan it seems T-Mobile is determined to help parents promote the responsible use of cell phones.