Windows - XP - Vista

Amazon may be preparing a move into gaming after hiring away Microsoft’s director of games platform strategy.



Microsoft - Video game - Microsoft Corporation - Amazon - Amazon Kindle

If no single smartphone operating system dominates the market, the result could be cheaper handsets, but also migraines for small businesses managing them.



Migraine - Small business - Headache - Health - Disease

Cisco and distributor Westcon agree to pay $48 million to resolve a government contract-pricing complaint.



Government - Cisco Systems - Vendors - Data Communications - Manufacturers

If you're an iPad-wielding poet, Dante Varnado Moore's Poet's Pad might help spark your creativity. Poet's Pad is designed to let poets write, arrange, and store...



IPad - Arts - Literature - Poetry - Children's

Facebook is testing a feature that makes it easier to follow a single person's activity. Will it become a stalker's best friend?



Facebook - Social network - Online Communities - Stalking - Twitter

The 64GB of storage space on the top-of-the-line iPad might be enough to appease most casual users, but those of us who routinely watch high-definition videos...



High-definition television - Arts - Storage - Television - Shipping Storage and Logistics

I suspect that it may be mid-2011 before truly polished iPad rivals show up–by which time Apple will presumably be ready to announce its second-generation tablet.



Apple - Toshiba - IPad - ViewSonic - Tablets

The Obama administration launches a new website asking the public to help solve government problems.



White House - Presidency of Barack Obama - President - United States - Government

Until now, a simple and user-friendly music management system has been something that's evaded the Android platform.



Android - Google - List of Google products - Handhelds - Searching

Hurd's new position as president of competitor Oracle "has put HP’s most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril," according to HP.



Hewlett-Packard - Oracle Corporation - Trade secret - Mark Hurd - Oracle

The CVS retail chain began offering a $99 Sylvania netbook over Labor Day weekend and an informal poll of a handful of stores revealed that the devices flew off CVS shelves shortly after stores opened.

The head of eBay's mobile efforts has big plans for the future.



eBay - Shopping - Servers - Auctions - Assistance

Is free speech really about prostitution and erotic massage?



Craigslist - Prostitution - Craig Newmark - Jim Buckmaster - Classified advertising

The ACLU has sued the US government claiming that laptop searches without cause are a violation of Fourth Amendment rights, but you can take steps of your own to get your data across the border without legal action.



American Civil Liberties Union - Law - Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - United States - Federal government of the United States

Google TV may offer the polar opposite television experience when compared to Apple TV.



Google - AppleTv - Search - Apple - Search Engines

It's no accident that Android is emerging as the leading mobile operating system--or that Apple's contender is fading.



Apple - Android - Mobile operating system - Handhelds - Google

Mark Hurd is being sued by HP.



Mark Hurd - Larry Ellison - Hewlett-Packard - Oracle - Oracle Corporation

Ever wonder what’s inside your Kindle 3? The folks at EEVblog have completed dissected Amazon’s famous e-reader to reveal the guts of this portable device.



E-book - Amazon Kindle - Amazon - Readers - Amazon.com

The ascendancy of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd to a co-president slot at Oracle could give the vendor's strategy of selling integrated systems a boost...



Mark Hurd - Hewlett-Packard - Oracle Corporation - Oracle - Larry Ellison