Twitter mobile use has grown 62 percent since April, a Twitter exec wrote today.

Apple Ping gets off to a rocky start.

Google Chrome turns 2 today ? and Google is celebrating with the release of Chrome 6.

At its Sept. 1 event, Apple trotted out a new iPod Nano, a rekindled Apple TV, and even a brand new social network in iTunes 10. This annual fall bash held surprises for almost every device that Apple sells ? with one notable exception.

?It?s the biggest change in the iPod lineup ever,? said Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the event. Click through to learn how.

Some call today's Apple announcement the 'annual iPod event,' the 'music keynote,' or even the launch of a new Apple TV.

Mobile robots have been used for years by the military and law enforcement, but with falling costs, the next frontiers are the office, the hospital and the home.

Craigslist, the classifieds Web site, has blocked access to its ?adult services? section and replaced the link with a black label with the word ?censored.?

Elaborate requirements for account passwords may sound invincible, but experts say Americans aren?t paying enough attention to other online security threats.

The actor Edward Norton and his partners started Crowdrise, with a mix of edginess and good-humored competition, to bolster online giving.

Is there a better way to handle it than just a cold, calculated click?

Over the past couple of months I have been exploring putting up a shopping cart to sell some unique items for the show. There are a 100 different sites that have a 100 different features but what I found was that most where simply to expensive, or reminded me of some of those old school [...]

If you are on Twitter and follow Robert Scoble you have probably heard about Flipboard for the Ipad, which takes your friends tweets and Facebook post and creates a daily magazine out of them. Most people who have an Ipad say it is a must have application, if you don’t have an Ipad, but want [...]

Over 25,000 people are now watching Geek News Central on the Roku, and I was very excited to see that Roku has apparently made a distribution deal with Netgear. The evidence is this image that has surfaced at the FCC hat tip to wirelessgoodness.com for the source on this. Up to this point the only [...]

In my book Podcasting The Do it Your Self Guide I talk about a day when we will be listening or watching a program while making breakfast and as we leave for work the media would follow us into a device in our pocket or in our car. I probably should have applied for a [...]

I was sitting of all places in the Set Top Box conference in San Jose the past week when Apple made the announcement about the new Apple TV. In fact I was watching the event on my iPad. I have been pretty excited about the announcement, and my team at RawVoice has been spending a [...]

The new Apple TV doesn't support video content with 1080p resolution, but it shouldn't have a major impact on its image quality.

At the huge IFA consumer electronics show, the big names in tech show off their newest wares, including an Android-based tablet from Samsung and a cloud-based music service from Sony.

Makers of the upcoming Boxee Box plan to release the device in November for $200, the company announced in a blog post following Wednesday's Apple TV announcement.

Apple's iOS is still dominant, but is losing share. It's to be expected as sales of Android devices continue to grow.

The space agency is offering a free iPad app that lets people view a variety of content in high definition.

Remember that even though you may not like each other everyday.....it doesn`t mean that you don`t love each other everyday!

Hunting for a record deal won't cut it anymore. Modern bands are focusing more on the Internet, looking for film soundtrack opportunities and piggy-backing album sales on designer T-shirts.

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Old TVs, cellphones and other electronics don't belong in the trash; they should be recycled.

If all the Consumer Electronics Show coverage this week has you scheming to buy the new Google smart phone or a 3-D home theater system, you aren't alone. Americans have an insatiable appetite for the latest and greatest gadgets.

Mousetraps aren't just a snap anymore. Some try to kill humanely. One will even send an e-mail of a kill.

It's hard not to admire the common house mouse, Mus musculus . Upon setting up a new home, it neatly separates kitchen, bedroom and toilet areas. It has evolved to make its own vitamin C, and it's sensible enough to fear not only black lights (possibly because a mouse's urine has a fluorescent glow) but also rats (Musicide is common).

Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob.com this year encourages start-ups and investors to work on online content and services for the world's 300 million Arabic speakers.

When Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury started Maktoob.com as an Arabic e-mail service 10 years ago, they had a modest office in Amman, Jordan, and little support from friends and family who could not imagine anyone using the Internet in Arabic.

As their role expands, many worry that their pay isn't keeping pace with the lucrative industry's growth.

When Dave Wittenberg began his acting career at a community theater in Boston, he never imagined that one day he'd be making his living as a voice artist for video game characters, portraying the likes of Hades, Tweedledee and Jerry Seinfeld.

A recap of a week of IT security news that included talk of acquisitions by CA Technologies and 3M as well as security moves by Facebook and Twitter. - Acquisitions, social network security and Google privacy were among the top items on the menu in IT security news this past week. CA Technologies started the week off by announcing plans to purchase Arcot systems for its fraud prevention technology. Arcot develops software-based digital signature ...

Apple unveiled a new iPod Touch, and updates to the iPad, during its Sept. 1 event. How will those improvements affect those devices' chances for increased enterprise adoption? - Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a number of products during his company's Sept. 1 presentation in San Francisco, devoting a substantial chunk of time to the now-annual refresh of the iPod line. In particular, the revamped iPod Touch which Jobs joked was an iPhone quot;without a phone quot; will rec...

Microsoft's week involved Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturing, a revival of its long-running legal case with i4i and the release of a Bing app for Google Android. - Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing on Sept. 1. After months of updates and rumors, this is the milestone that anticipates that most final of final steps: actual product release. Now Microsofts OEMs will integrate the software platform into their devices, which will reportedly debut ...

Google Sept. 3 is letting businesses attach several addresses to the AdWords location extensions for Android-based smartphones. The idea is to boost business visibility and ad coverage. - Google Sept. 3 said it has added the ability for advertisers to attach several business addresses to its AdWords location extensions for Android-based smartphones. Launched in July, AdWords location extensions let members of Google's Places program put their businesses' location and phone number...

Google will pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that argued its Google Buzz social Web service violated users' privacy when it launched in February. - Google will shell out $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with seven people who argued the Google Buzz social service violated users' privacy. Google appeared to launch Buzz Feb. 9 with good intentions, allowing users to opt in to a service that lets users share and discuss links, pho...