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• From Digital to Print and Back The great thing about creating a digital scrapbooking page is that there’s almost no limit to the ideas you can try. And with a little thought, you can easily go...
• Online Retailer Jumpstarts Intel's Core I3 Chip Launch ECost is selling a Hewlett-Packard laptop with Intel's upcoming Core i3 processor, providing chip details ahead of its official launch.
• Qualcomm Reorganizes as COO Lauer Leaves Qualcomm COO Len Lauer has resigned to become CEO at an unnamed company.
• Texas County to Name Drunk Drivers on Twitter Texas's Montgomery County is posting the names of drunk drivers on its Twitter page over the holidays
• See Path to Messages in Snow Leopard's Mail Here's a quick tip on a new feature in Mail in Snow Leopard: the proxy icon at the top of a message window now works as it does in Finder, TextEdit, and many...
• High Windows 7 Satisfaction Spurs Business Spending After just two months on the market, Windows 7 is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said.
• Indian Startup Designs Tablet PC Running Android Indian startup Norton Ink is designing a tablet PC around Android and is targeting the device at the global market.
• Will We See the Famed Apple Tablet Next Month? We doesn't normally report on Apple gossip from rumor Websites, but when heavyweights like The Financial Times report on Apple news--even if it sounds a bit...
• DDoS Attack on DNS Hits Amazon and Others Briefly A distributed denial-of-service attack affected Northern California Internet users Wednesday.
• Japan Sees Third Straight Month PC Unit Shipment Growth Unit shipments of PCs in Japan registered their third straight month of gains in November based on year-ago levels, an industry group said Thursday.
• Facebook Traffic Jumps in Japan but It Still Lags Mixi Facebook has seen an almost fourfold increase in the number of visitors to its Web site from Japan in the last year, NetRatings Japan said Thursday.
• Google Purchase of AdMob Gets Closer Antitrust Review The Federal Trade Commission has asked Google for more information about its proposed $750 million purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob.
• Twitter Buys Mixer Labs to Enhance Geolocation Services Twitter bought Mixer Labs, which provides an API to write geolocation-aware applications.
• Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry The company now offers a $24.99 monthly subscription for unlimited VoIP calls to 60 countries.
• Gas Cubby App Turns Free With New Sponsored Version Gas Cubby for the iPhone is an app that tracks fuel mileage and vehicle maintenance. It lets you track as many vehicles as you'd like, create reports complete...
• Skeptics Question OLPC's Focus With $75 Tablet Skeptics question OLPC's focus with the $75 tablet PC.
• Study: US Among World's Leaders in Broadband Use U.S. broadband customers download more content per month than users in Germany, the UK and Japan, a study says.
• Oracle Slapped With Suit Tied to Fusion Applications Oracle is being sued by software toolkit maker MB Technologies for fraud and copyright infringement.
• FireWire Vs USB: Which Is Faster? Most modern Macs--except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models--offer both FireWire and USB connections. When shopping for an external hard drive, then...
• Outage: BlackBerry Users May Be Upset, But Have Few Options The second e-mail outage in a week leaves BlackBerry users concerned, but where can they really go?
• World Tech Update: Year-end Special Join us as we take a look back at our favorite gadgets, robots and prototypes from 2009
• India's Mobile Subscriber Base Crosses 500 Million Mark India's mobile subscribers crossed 500 million in November.
• Nortel Accepts $282M Bid for VoIP Unit Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement with GENBAND to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business for US$281 million.
• China State-linked Microblog Service Hacked at Launch A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and went offline.
• BlackBerry Service Hit by Second Outage in a Week An outage hit BlackBerry smartphone service in the Americas on Tuesday night, operator Research In Motion confirmed via its support service.