While the government claims no operator has issued a call identifier with the number 09141, rumor claims as many as ten people have died after accepting calls with such an ID.

PiratePalooza Press has released the official user guide for the rPlank along with a new YouTube video showing features of this wooden tablet, competitor to the iPad.

Researchers at MIT are working on a tiny energy harvester, a device that can gather energy from low-frequency vibrations such as humming machinery, to generate power. The aim is to generate 100 microwatts for powering smart sensors.

Malware targeting Android is on the rise. Security firms estimate the almost 300 percent rise seen in the first half of 2011 will be easily eclipsed before next year.

Facebook now lets you “subscribe” to your friends’ personal profiles. You can also opt to share only parts of your profile with friends. This article explains how the feature works.

D-Link announced the HD Media Router 2000 (DIR-827) and the PowerLine AV 500 Gigabit Switch Kit (DHP-541). Both devices are part of the Amplifi family of high-performance home networking solutions.

If you downloaded files from uTorrent.com, or BitTorrent.com, earlier today, you may want to do a little cleaning. It appears hackers compromised some servers and any downloads might include the “Security Shield” virus.

While Microsoft appears to be abandoning Intel chips, Google is adopting them. The Android mobile operating system is being modified to run on Intel and is expected to be available on devices sometime next year.

Mozilla has released an early preview build of the Firefox for Tablets web browser, being built for Android 3.0. No final release date has been announced.

Western Digital has introduced its WD 2go and WD 2go Pro mobile apps for its My Book Live personal cloud storage solution. WD’s My Book Live drive creates shared storage you can access through www.WD2go.com, while the WD 2go apps provide mobile access through an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android compatible mobile device.