The Kyobo e-Reader uses mirasol’s technology to provide a clear color display in bright sunlight. The Kyobo offers a 5.7 inch XGA format, mirasol display, and Qualcomm’s 1.0 GHz Snapdragon S2 class processor.

Like many incredible deals, this one comes with some restrictions. It seems you must be either a new subscriber or adding a new line to your AT&T account to qualify for the cheap phones.

Google and device manufacturers seem to have lost control of the update process for Android. New devices are often shipped with out-dated versions of the operating system and slow, or non-existent, upgrade paths.

It used to be thought you could find a link between any two people on earth through no more than six intermediaries. But, after researchers at the Università degli Studi di Milano studied the numbers from Facebook, it appears the world is smaller than we thought.

Some users have complained that airport scanners have ruined the E-Ink displays on their Kindles. While X-rays from the scanners may not affect the devices, apparently, static electricity might cause problems.

According to rumors – Steve Jobs didn’t want the iPhone to have a 4-inch screen, but Apple will install a larger screen, on a slightly larger device, for the next release.

A final version of Flash will be released for Android 4.0. Adobe expects to release new versions of both Flash Player and the Flash Linux Porting Kit by the end of the year.

Mimo Monitors has developed a USB-driven capacitive touchscreen mini-monitor called the “Magic Touch”. The device has a 10-inch display with either one or two USB ports. Mimo will begin shipping the monitors December 12.

Google has evidently put some effort into the latest version of Android. A lot of little changes have been made to clean up the interface and enhance performance. This article includes a number of screen shots showing the changes.

JPEG and PNG image files provide substantial reduction over some other file types but can still be quite large. Google engineers have been working on WebP to create smaller file sizes while maintaining image attributes.