MiLi Power has released the Power Shine, a 4000 mAh external battery, that can be used with the iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows phone, or any other device using micro USB. The Power Shine can provide up to 26 hours of use for data access.

Google has decided that checking secure sockets layer (SSL) certificates is a waste of time. Instead Chrome will maintain a list of revoked certificates.

Three years ago some photos were deleted from Facebook. But they didn’t do away because someone, somewhere, had a direct link to the file. The photos are still accessible. Facebook claims to be updating the system.

Tristan Schaap interned at Apple while working on a thesis. He was given the job of porting the core of Mac OS X to an MV88F6281 processor. Tristan’s thesis has now been made public, he has a job with Apple, and rumors are flying.

A fake CNN news page, reporting a U.S. attack on Iran, attracted the attention of a lot of people. The “report” links to a spoofed site which delivers malware to your computer.

The Spark is now available for pre-order at about $265 USD. The 7-inch tablet runs on a 1GHz AMLogic ARM processor and Mali-400 GPU and offers the Plasma Active user interface.

Smartphones let you use e-mail, chat, video, and even document processing. Sales of the devices have soared, cutting into the market for other mobile computing devices.

The Summer Olympics will run from July 27 through August 12. During that time you may experience slowdowns as events are streamed over the internet, licensed and otherwise.

Android apps have been accused of harboring a lot of malware. Now Google is using an application called Bouncer to scan apps in the Android Market.

Now you can amuse yourself by using the Tworse Key, or Twitter Telegraph, to tweet in Morse Code. This page includes a short video showing how it works and directions for making your own.