While the laptop was tossed from a plane at 12,500 feet, it did have a parachute. The laptop needed to boot up within 10 seconds to deploy the parachute, and yes, there were failures.

Apparently a lot of people fell in love with those red envelopes. The cost of mailing them out, and keeping enough disks available, is much of the reason behind the price hike.

It’s called “Google Plus Direct Access” and it’s a fake. This is not a way to get invited to join Google+, it’s a way to spam your friends and maybe get malware installed on your machine.

Most manufacturers seem to think of tablets as pads of paper. Sony is building small, portable computers in other shapes.

Resco has released their new customization and administration tool, Resco MobileCRM Woodford for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The tool can be integrated with MS Dynamics CRM or used as a stand-alone application.

Ascensio System SIA announced the launch of the TeamLab online document and spreadsheet editor to mark their first year. The Documents module is OS independent and works in the browser without requiring additional software.

Near-field communications (NFC) technology lets you use a mobile device, like your phone, for payments. PayPal is developing a widget to let you transfer money phone-to-phone.

RIM’s new BlackBerry Bold 9900, one of 7 new phones to be released later this year, will include a 1.2 GHz single-core processor and the BlackBerry 7 operating system.

Djigzo for Android lets you encrypt and digitally sign your email on an Android smartphone. Djigzo for Android works in cooperation with an existing email client.

Google+ is gearing up. By July 17 they expect to have 20 million users for their “limited” field test.