This slide show of short videos shows a variety of devices being previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. The devices include tablets, keyboards, speakers, and mounting systems.

G-Form makes cases to protect electronic devices. To prove the protection provided by their Extreme Edge case, they sent an iPad up on a weather balloon. This page includes a short video showing the iPad in flight, both up to 100,000 feet and back down.

Rumors indicate Google is interested in building their own tablet device, possibly to compete with the Kindle Fire.

The Ramnit worm has already stolen 45,000 Facebook passwords and associated e-mail addresses. The worm uses multiple methods of spreading in its search for bank account information.

The Iconia is a 10-inch tablet with a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra processor, only one camera, and a low price. The tablet will ship with Android 3.2, but Acer is promising to update the device to 4.0 in February.

The Church of Kopimism has been granted formal recognition as a religion by the Swedish government. The religion, founded in 2010, holds that “information is holy and copying is a sacrament”.

The Ultrabooks are hitting the market. These slim, lightweight laptops offer a variety of features not found in netbooks. This article includes quick reviews of seven devices to help you decide.

The Kindle Fire is an Android device. Amazon’s Silk browser was designed to run on the Kindle Fire using Amazon’s servers to help speed things up. Is it “theft” to port the browser to another Android device?

A couple of bloggers discovered a marketing program that affected Chrome’s PageRank. When they publicized their information, Google decided to penalize their own browser.

The Kindle Fire doesn’t do everything an iPad can. But, at less than half the price, the e-readers cut into sales of Apple’s tablet computer.