Tag Heurer is offering a mobile phone with sapphire crystal glass, a stainless steel case, and 28-day stand-by battery life. You can even add to the design. They’re accepting pre-orders now.

While it may look like your chance to join Google+, it may just be spam. Most real invitations have gone to bloggers and journalists, so that invite you just got may not be as special as you’d like.

Nortel Networks has been struggling with bankruptcy. So they decided to sell what was most valuable, their patents. The winning bid came from a consortium led by Microsoft, Apple, and Sony. Google’s Android may face even more lawsuits as a result.

Have you ever wondered just how expensive mobile data plans can be? This page includes a chart showing the cost of transferring 40GB of data over a few European services.

As part of the Google+ roll-out Google is offering users two new themes. The options are being rolled out gradually, so don’t be surprised if you don’t have them yet.

When is a tablet not a tablet? The Cius, an Android device, is designed for secure communication for business collaboration which might make it less popular for home use.

It used to be possible to make thousands of dollars a day with spam. Then spam filters gained a foothold and what had been easy money became far more work.

The TouchPad runs webOS in a fairly standard hardware package. It offers multitasking, Synergy, and a tablet-optimized Facebook app.

California has decided to tax the internet, following the lead of some other states. The first casualty has, once again, been the Amazon Associates program.

It’s been in the works for a while – now it’s final – News Corp. has sold MySpace for an estimated $35 million, a considerable discount from the $580 million they paid.