On-Ramp Wireless in San Diego, California has developed a way to maintain a wireless signal for up to 45 miles. The technology is being developed for “smart energy” grids.

Apple may own the market, but there are a lot of devices out there with more scheduled for release before the end of the year. It remains to be seen if any of these can threaten Apple’s dominance.

BugMe! – sticky notes for your mobile device – is now available for the iPhone and iPad as well as BlackBerry and Android. You can use the included designs for your notes or your own photos as a paper style.

The Google Talk VoIP infrastructure has been moved to the Jingle protocol. The aim is to allow calling between competing services.

The Kobo eReader Touch Edition and the new Nook from Barnes & Noble are priced a little higher than the ad-financed Kindle. Both devices offer features the Kindle lacks. So, maybe it’s time for Amazon to re-work the Kindle a bit.

If you run your own installation of WordPress, and you downloaded any of three specific plugins on June 21, 2011, you may have gotten Trojans along with the plugins.

Two of Australia’s largest ISPs have agreed to voluntarily block more than 500 websites. The list includes child abuse websites and other sites thought to be hosting obscene material.

It appears that many people talk about increasing security for social networks but few bother to do anything to reduce their risk. The simplest thing to do? Change your passwords regularly.

Coordinated raids in Latvia, Britain, the United States, and several other countries are being credited with breaking up a fake anti-virus scam. The scam had netted the group approximately $74 million.

Its code name is Sea Ray and it looks a lot like the N9, but runs WinPhone7. This 22-minute video shows Stephen Elop making a presentation that features the phone.