Google’s Chrome OS is primarily web-based. However, in case you don’t have a signal, Chromebooks will come with offline versions of Gmail, Docs, and Google Calendar so you can keep working.

The problem with folding things is that annoying crease that develops at the fold. Now scientists at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea have come up with a way to avoid the crease in folding displays.

Facebook is great for connecting you around the globe. But what about your local neighborhood? Yatown is designed to connect users living near each other into a virtual “town square”.

Using a cushion of air over the keys, Apple has created a new keyboard that can tell what key you’re about to press before your finger touches the key. The idea is to provide more accurate input from ever-smaller keys.

Samsung and Acer plan to ship laptops using Google’s Chrome operating system on June 15. None too soon for those who feel using Windows is “torture”. Samsung’s Series 5 is expected to cost about $400.

It appears that someone at Facebook hired the Burson-Marsteller public-relations firm to “expose” privacy concerns regarding Google’s social network service.

Take two 8-year-old boys, home alone, with uncontrolled internet access. That’s the example offered in a public-service ad to inform parents of the dangers. The 2.5-minute video includes several suggestive scenarios.

Google’s I/O conference is underway. One of the announcements has to do with the next version of Android, “Ice Cream Sandwich”. This page includes three short videos, recorded during the conference, showing new features.

Apple offers books from various vendors through their iBookstore. Several companies created reading apps for iOS and made agreements with publishers. Then Apple changed the contract and the vendors were required to pay a 30 percent commission to Apple, killing all their profits.

While Facebook fixed the leak a year ago, any tokens that had already been exposed are still exposed, regardless of your privacy settings. In order to invalidate the tokens you need to change your password.