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• A $1000 Apple Tablet? Let's Hope Not A thousand clams for Apple's mystery slate seems wildly overpriced for the consumer market. Sure, it might draw crowds at the Apple Store -- but few shoppers would buy one.
• Apple Wish List: Five Smart Moves for the Coming Year Some of the things we hope to see next year just might come to pass, while others are wishful thinking.
• Single-Atom Transistors Are The Smallest Yet The discovery of a single-atom transistor could eventually lead to more processing power getting squeezed in ever-smaller devices.
• Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
• Next: Control a Computer With Gestures A new technology still in development supports input by motion controls and drawings.
• Technology We'll Miss When It's Gone As tech speeds inexorably forward, many gadgets and services will be left in heaps on the roadside. Problem is, we'll truly miss some of them.
• Augmented Reality: Coming to a Device Near You We've all seen augmented reality in the movies: A character puts on a pair of glasses and suddenly data about their surroundings appears within their field of vision. Now this technology is available on a device near you.
• How Much Should Apple's Tablet Cost? Apple needs to hit the $600 price point, says shopping site Retrevo, after surveying consumers. But that may not be easy.
• 16 Apple Products We Can Only Dream About Nowadays, everybody seems eager to make an Apple product. These prototypes from independent designers may never appear on shelves at the Apple Store, but they include lots of innovative ideas.
• 5 Ways I'd Pay for Hulu With video-streaming site Hulu planning to charge its viewers next year, I can think of five approaches that might get users to pay.
• Will Windows 7 Bring Touchscreens to the Mainstream? PC vendors are rolling out a wave of new systems that incorporate Windows 7's multitouch features. It remains to be seen, however, whether the overnight success of touchscreens in the smartphone world translates to the desktop/laptop PC market.
• Maybe Apple Cares About Readers After All Apple has been in talks with publishers of textbooks, newspapers (the New York Times, specifically), and magazines – presumably as it gets ready to announce its tablet.
• Honda's U3-X: A Geek-Friendly Unicycle Honda is showing off its new U3-X, a unicycle-like "personal mobility device." Ready to go for a ride?
• Office Web Apps May Spell The End of Microsoft How Microsoft's half-hearted embrace of cloud computing has signaled the start of an inexorable slide into obsolescence.
• And the Winner Is: '89 Mac Portable vs. MacBook Air Showdown: Macintosh Portable (1989) vs. MacBook Air (2009).
• What Technologies Will Impact Your Business in the Years to Come? What 10 new technologies will have the most impact on business in the years to come? Now's your chance to weigh in.
• Will Apple's Tablet Begin with a Backlash? Apple's upcoming tablet is rumored to include a 9.6 inch multitouch screen, a PS Semi processor, and will reportedly run on AT&T's network.
• Apple May Unveil New Macs Soon — Analyst Research firm has a strong hunch: Apple will unveil redesigned iMacs and MacBooks "in the next several weeks."
• Favorite Startups from TechCrunch50 Conference I went in search of tech startup companies with products that are not only technically cool, but also fit an immediate consumer need. I found a few. . .
• Windows 7: The Touch Revolution — Or Not Integrating touchscreen technology into the OS sounds revolutionary -- until you try to use it.
• Top 10 Blowhards of the Web Arrington! Scoble! Cuban! Huffington! After much debate, we've rounded up our ten favorite blogging blowhards, the most notable offenders in a vast rogues' gallery of Web windbags.
• Analyst: A $700 MacBook Is Just Around the Corner Some say that Apple plans to kill the iPod Classic tomorrow, but an analyst at Technology Business Research instead predicts a cheaper Apple laptop.
• Honey, I Shrunk Silicon Valley! A U.S. government study found that the Silicon Valley high-tech workforce has declined by 16.5% since 2001 while paychecks inceased by some 36%.
• As Internet Turns 40, Future Keeps Net Pioneer Guessing Computer science professor says he could predict what the Internet's infrastructure will look like years from now -- but there's no way to tell what people will be doing with it.
• Startups iCloud and Ghost Do Google One Better Two startups offer free 'computers' as cloud services — with online storage and applications that run in a proprietary operating system.