Megan Burger

Smartphones and tablet PCs running Google Android 2.3 and above are to be given access to a PlayStation Store, as well as the 'PlayStation Suite.' This means Android phone users will be able to play PlayStation One and 'PlayStation quality' games, according to Sony.

Sony has yet to give further details of launch dates or pricing, but at its launch even for the next generation PlayStation Portable 2 -- aka the Next Generation Portable -- in Tokyo last week it said that some PlayStation One titles will be released soon as part of the PlayStation Store for Android.

Research has shown that almost 50,000 editors left online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the first quarter of this year: ten times the number who deserted the site in the same period of 2008.

The staggering loss of editors from the user-generated site was reported by Felipe Ortega from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. Ortega built and used a computer program to analyze editing history on Wikipedia. Speaking to The Times, he said: "If you don't have enough people to take care of the project it could vanish quickly. We're not in that situation yet. But eventually, if the negative trends follow, we could be in that situation."

Nokia says that massive demand for the Nokia N900 has forced it to delay the release of the Maemo 5 handset.

Users will have to wait a week longer than expected for their Linux-based Internet phones.

Following the recent launch of Microsoft's Bing, along with products such as Wolfram Alpha, another search engine has entered the market, hoping to take on Google by delivering what it calls 'human-like' results. Yebol.com launched last week, and uses semantic-search technology to deliver categorised results.

At launch, Yebol can provide categorised results for more than 10 million search terms. According to the company it intends to provide results for 'every conceivable search term' in the next three to six months.

Google Latitude, which uses GPS to allow you to track people from your mobile phone of desktop PC, is under fire from privacy campaigners. They say that Google Latitude could be used to spy on unsuspecting users.

Latitude is a free tool that works from smartphones and PCs. With Latitude installed, users can use GPS and Google Maps to track other friends who are using the service. Crucially, to be tracked, people have to sign up for Google Latitude. They can also limited exactly who can track them, and where they can be tracked.

The average UK child spends nearly six hours each day in front of a television or computer and prefers using their PC to watching the TV, according to research.

ChildWise asked 1,800 children from more than 90 schools to name the one thing they couldn't live without. One in three named their computer, compared to one in five who 'need' the TV.

Symantec Tuesday announced the availability of the public beta of Norton 360 version 3.0.

Norton 360 was first launched in early 2007, and is Symantec's 'set it and forget it' security suite for users who don't want to have to think about internet security.

PC Tools is reporting an increase in PDF-based malware, some of which can evade antivirus software.

According to a PC Tools blog posting, the security vendor's user community is seeing a slew of rigged PDF files attacking various buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. The PDF malware attacks target the newest publicly known Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability. Adobe issued a patch last week.

Asus this week announced yet another Asus Eee PC laptop - the Asus Eee PC 1002HA.

The Asus Eee PC 1002HA netbook shares a similar chassis and styling to the Asus Eee PC S101, with a 10in screen. Like many of is Eee PC brethren, the Asus Eee PC 1002HA is a very small laptop with a large touchpad.