Internet radio is hardly a new concept, but a British invader, the Sensia from PURE, attempts to put a fresh face on the market with a color touchscreen interface and the ability to access social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter directly from the radio.

When the Chevy Volt electric car rolls off production lines later this year, owners will be able to obsess over them even when they're not behind the wheel thanks to a powerful mobile app from OnStar (a subsidiary of General Motors).

The OnStar Mobile App for the iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry Storm and Motorola Droid lets you monitor and control the Volt's electrical functions. It can also remotely lock and unlock the car and sound the horns for those times when you're parking space eludes you.

Touch technology is a godsend on our phones and tablets, but can it do anything innovative for gaming? Boutique PC vendor, iBuyPower, is betting so with the announcement of its new 15-inch Battalion Touch CZ-10 multi-touch gaming notebook--the first in a new series from the company.

No other specs were announced, but given that this is iBuyPower we're talking about, you can expect a hefty amount of high-end hardware options. And if you don't think 15-inches will cut it, we're told the other notebooks in the series will have bigger, heftier screens later this year.

iRiver, best known for teensy, feature-packed portable music and video players, is hopping on to the increasingly crowded e-book reader bandwagon with one of the skinniest entries to date.

Fleshing out product line leaks from last summer, the company says its Story e-book reader, to be unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is a mere 0.36 inch thick.

The Nexus One press event held by Google today was largely underwhelming, in my opinion. There was an underlying message, though, that smartphone users--particularly Android-based smartphone users--can learn a good lesson from.

The press event was supposed to focus on the Nexus One--Google's first branded Android mobile phone. It was really two events, though. The hardware part was the unveiling of the HTC Nexus One device, and the software side was the launch of Android 2.1.

Friends, Romans, Internetmen, the day has arrived. Yes, my fellow Netizens, Google's Nexus One is finally here.

The phone some swore would practically change life as we know it made its official debut at Google's California headquarters Tuesday morning. After all the hype surrounding the Nexus One's prelaunch buzz, interest in this pocket-sized device is definitely sky-high.

The Western Digital My Book 3.0 desktop external drive will be one of the first to market with the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. Announced today, the 1TB version is available for sale today; the 2TB is due later this week. So does USB 3.0 deliver on its promises? We got the 1TB My Book 3.0 into the PC World Lab, and our early results look very promising.

As an interface, USB 3.0 carries a lot of promise: Theoretically, the maximum performance of USB 2.0 was 480 Mbps, while that of USB 3.0 is 4.8 Gbps--a ten-fold theoretical increase. But in reality, the limitations of the drive itself--currently at 3.0Gbps--creates another bottleneck in the USB 3.0 environment. As such, industry experts are saying we can expect to see approximately a three-fold increase in real-world performance.

In an important--and potentially expensive--break with the past, Microsoft may not be offering discounted "upgrade" versions of Office 2010.

That would be mean all customers will at least theoretically pay full price when they move from Office 2007 to the new version, due later this year.

The boob tube's transformation from passive entertainment device to Web-enabled home appliance--essentially a big-screen computer--has taken another step forward. Panasonic and LG Electronics have announced plans to add Skype's video and voice calling software to their upcoming lineup of Internet-ready HDTVs.

With the right hardware, including a Skype-enabled TV and an HD webcam, families will be able to video chat in high-definition. Obviously, the grandparents-to-grandkids holiday call would be a natural for this type of setup.

Responding to the FCC request for input on a plan for providing national broadband Internet access, the antitrust division of the Justice Department urged the FCC to act quickly to reallocate the available frequency spectrum to expand its availability for wireless broadband, and make the broadband market more competitive.

The Department of Justice filing states "Given the potential of wireless services to reach underserved areas and to provide an alternative to wireline broadband providers in other areas, the [FCC]'s primary tool for promoting broadband competition should be freeing up spectrum."

With a screen depth of 18.5mm, the svelte Lenovo IdeaCentre A300 has claimed the title of the world's thinnest All-in-One PC. It sports a 21.5-inch, 1920-by-1080 resolution widescreen display, putting the final dimensions at 524 by 396 by 207mm (20.6 x 15.5 x 8.14 inches).

Game publishing giant EA says it'll stick with celebrity licensee Tiger Woods despite recent public scandals. That's the word from EA Sports prez Peter Moore, who blogs that the company was moving forward with its online version of the eponymous video game franchise for PC and Mac set to launch later this month.