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I ordered the new $139 Kindle Touch "without special offers" as soon as it was offered and received it on November 16. After opening the box, my first impressions were positive. The Kindle Touch is noticeably smaller. Holding it in your hand, it feels solid, adding to an overall perception of quality.

Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS and its accompanying Galaxy Nexus phone could arrive within a matter of days, according to an increasing number of reports.

AMD (NYSE:AMD) has launched its new server CPU chips, some of which offer a whopping 16 cores -- or, at least, 16 threads. The Opteron 6200-series 'Interlagos' and 4200-series 'Valencia' products are supposedly better, faster, cheaper, and/or lower-power than the Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Xeon equivalents, thanks to AMD's 'Bulldozer' architecture. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel the need... the need for speed.

Hacking the weak links in the grid is not sci fi and Pike Research warned 'utility cybersecurity is in a state of near chaos.' Other experts warn 'be scared,' attackers hunt for holes, and a cheap piece of software could bring America to her knees. Where would that take us but chaos?

Apple has achieved another milestone, grabbing over 7 percent of Western Europe's PC industry while its iPad continues to assimilate the netbook market, Gartner figures show.

User calls the help desk to complain that she has to enter three passwords each time she tries to log in.

Here's an odd story: An employer asked its departing employee to give it back the Twitter account he'd been using while employed. He said no, so the employer sued him for $340,000. Say what? It's The Long View...
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What matters with a smartphone in a wireless network is how it works where you live and work.

As of January 1, Google's idea of using a public cloud-based service as the aggregation point for highly sensitive personal health data is dead. Will other initiatives follow?

Windows Phone 7 has suddenly become a favorite with app developers, the number three platform behind iOS and Android, according to a just-released survey from Appcelerator and IDC. This is big news for Microsoft, because in mobile, where developers go, consumers generally follow.

Over the holidays, my Facebook page was hacked and a phishing attack was launched using the "chat" feature, where my friends were contacted and told my wife and I had been mugged and that we needed money. It just goes to show that even with an alphanumeric password, your account information is not safe.

In all the excitement about the new color e-reader/tablets, not enough attention is being given to the the smaller and less expensive E-Ink e-readers that may, because of their approximately $100 price tags, be even more of an impulse buy than their sexier siblings.

A proposed bill that is designed to make it harder for offshore sites to sell counterfeit U.S products and copyrighted content gives content and IP owners way too much power, critics contend.

FCC finds merger won't defy gravity and create jobs.

There's a big opinion split by political affiliation, not only age group.