The New York Times would like to pay their bills. They would like you to pay to read their articles. But. People are accustomed to getting things from the web for free and…

Wikipedia pages have a look to them – slightly cluttered, mildly distracting. Now you can download the Wikipedia Beautifier to hide those distractions from sight while you read articles.

Amazon already has a best seller with the Kindle. Now there are rumors of a full-color, Android-based, tablet device to compete with the iPad.

iSpaces IT Ltd. has launched its free cloud computer. CloudBrowser lets you log in and out of iSpaces from multiple computers without having to reopen Web applications, tabs, and online documents.

If you send your laptop in for repair, you probably don’t think to backup your information and clean the hard drive. However. In at least one case, someone’s device, sent in for repair, was mistakenly sold as new with all the owner’s personal files included.

BitcoinJ, developed by Google engineer Gavin Andresen, implements a “simplified payment verification” mode that doesn’t require a central bank or payment system. This is a short video explaining how the system works.

DAP Technologies’ new rugged M9000 series tablets offer communications options including Wireless USB and integrated ZigBee wireless technology along with an Intel E660T industrial processor and Qualcomm’s latest Gobi 3000 module.

Tablet computers may be the future but… There are several features, standard in a laptop, that are still missing from most tablets.

While Amazon now allows lending e-books it appears they don’t want any competition. The API used by Lendle and other book-lending services has been shut down.

RIM’s PlayBook will be available for purchase, in the US and Canada, beginning April 19. BestBuy is now accepting pre-orders.