All public spaces offering Wi-Fi web access in China have been ordered to install software to allow the police to identify users. Many businesses are shutting down their Wi-Fi instead of paying for the expensive software.

ARM chips use less power than x86 processors, which would mean longer battery life. But they aren’t as fast, which would mean waiting for processes to finish. Still. A touch-screen device with reasonable performance and long battery life would be nice.

Google is offering a new service to speed up your web searches. Their Page Speed Service uses Google’s servers to perform the searches before delivering the results to your browser.

Hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous are asking people to close their PayPal accounts. This is in response to the FBI arrests of some of those responsible for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on PayPal last year.

Intel’s Ivy Bridge platform is proving to be expensive to manufacture. While Intel tries to lower production costs, the first generation of Ultrabooks may be expensive.

YouSendIt is an online file-sharing service with lots of paying customers. The service has now added e-signature capabilities for your documents.

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a flexible, see-through battery using a silicon substrate with nanoscale trenches. This page includes a short video showing the battery.

D-Link is offering a special on their Wireless N 300 Router (DIR-615) and mydlink-enabled Wireless N Network Camera (DCS-930L) to help students get ready for school.

Boot to Gecko (B2G) is a new project from Mozilla to create an operating system for smartphones and tablets. The OS uses the Gecko HTML rendering engine and will run on Android-compatible hardware.

The sleek MacBook Air comes in 11 and 13 inch models with a faster processor and faster memory than earlier versions. This review includes some technical specifications and benchmark tests against the earlier version of the device.