Curtis Franklin, Jr.

If you're looking for a new laptop, a 46-inch HDTV or refurbished tablet, June will be a good month for you, according to the price watchers at DealNews.com.

Laptop deals during the month will be driven by the introduction of new models sporting Intel's Ivy Bridge processor, DealNews noted in its monthly "Best and Worst" report.

Downloads from Apple's App Store declined in April as the cost of landing loyal users increased, according to Fisku, an app ranking firm located in Boston.

Daily downloads of the top 200 free apps in Apple's App Store dropped by 4.9 percent to 4.23 million, down from 4.45 million in March, Fiscus reported Tuesday. The decline comes a month after Apple celebrated breaking the 25 billion mark in app downloads at the store.

With Instagram in the fold and Opera in its sights, will Face.com be the next big acquisition for newly minted public company Facebook?

Face.com is an Israeli company known for its "best in breed" facial recognition technology. When you're launching the kind of offensive that Facebook's mounting in the photosphere, it only makes sense to have top-shelf mug finding technology, like Face.com.

I remember when I discovered "Read It Later" (now called Pocket). This is great, I thought. It's like a DVR for reading. Unfortunately, like a DVR, the Read It Later queue can become a dead letter office for good intentions.

But what if instead of tagging material for later reading, you could tag it for later listening? Instead of having to set aside time to read an article in the future, you could layer it over another activity, like the time spent commuting to work or walking the dog?

It shouldn't surprise anyone that an online service with more than 900 million members will attract some attention from the porn industry, as Facebook has through the years. That attention has spurred the social network to fight smut peddlers in court, with mixed results. Here's a brief history of Facebook's legal battles with the XXX set.

December 2007. Facebook sues SlickCash, a Canadian company specializing in Internet porn, for attempting to access the social network's servers at least some 200,000 times to obtain information on its users. According to AVN, an adult entertainment news website, that case was settled in April 2008.  Under the deal, a permanent injunction was issued against the individuals involved in the incident and they promised not to become members of Facebook for ten years following the date of the settlement.

Google received requests to purge more than a million links from its search results in March, according to the search giant's monthly "transparency report."

The request-for-removal metric is a new one, appearing in the latest version of the report released Thursday.

What a difference a year makes in the booming smartphone market.

A year ago, the world's leading smartphone operating systems, Android and iOS, owned a little over half the market. Now they own more than 80 percent of it.

Surfing the Internet is becoming more dangerous than ever, according to a report released Wednesday by cyber security software maker McAfee.

In first three months of the year, malware circulating in cyberspace reached a four-year high and is on a pace to reach 100 million samples by year's end, McAfee says in its quarterly threats report.

With more and more TV viewers cutting the cord to their cable provider's video service, Comcast announced a move Monday that may give its subscribers an incentive to resist that trend.

In the coming weeks, the cable TV provider said it would roll out a new service that it vows will transform TV into an entirely new integrated entertainment experience.

Samsung is blocking a hack of its S Voice digital assistant software that allowed any Android phone running Ice Cream Sandwich to use the app.

The hack of the app, designed for Samsung's hot new Galaxy S III smartphone scheduled to reach retailers on May 29, was revealed Saturday in the XDA Forum.

In an e-mail Sunday, Twitter is alerting its members to changes to its policies on privacy and service usage, including support for Do Not Track, as well as informing them about a new weekly digest of interesting news and items from their feeds.

"New things are always happening here at Twitter HQ," the e-mail says. "We're growing at a rapid pace, and our commitment to simplicity, transparency, and reaching every person on the planet continues."

Two technology titans who have been grappling in courts around the world will be meeting face to face Monday to see if they can settle their differences and concentrate on what they do best: creating great consumer electronics products.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung Major Domo Gee-Sung Choi are scheduled to meet in San Francisco to engage in two days of discussions about claims and counterclaims made in lawsuits filed in the United States in which each company maintains its intellectual property has been infringed by the other.