New York Times technology columnist J.D. Biersdorfer has stress-tested a lot of iPhone apps so you don’t have to. He offers the results of his testing in this book.

LG was going to release a tablet computer running Android 2.2. But. They’ve now announced they will wait for the release of Android 3.0 before pushing their tablet out.

This new web application allows you to put an end-of-life timer on your messages so they vanish from inboxes and archives. From a few seconds to much longer, the timer activates when the message is opened.

If it uses the word “instant” privacy may be an issue, or so it would seem from the reading recommendation feature offered by Scribd through Facebook.

Chris Brogan will present his webinar, “How Not to Do a Webinar” on Friday, October 8 as part of the MTO Summit Webinar Tech Series. This event will explore what works and what doesn’t when conducting webinars. Registration is required.

One of BlackBerry’s selling points has been encryption, of passwords, airwaves, and backups. Now a password-cracking program has been developed that can crack BlackBerry’s encryption.

WritePad is a note taker for iPads and iPhones which converts handwriting into computer text. Notes created with WritePad can be emailed, Tweeted, saved, translated to other languages, synced with Dropbox, or exchanged directly between 2 or more iOS devices.

Companies don’t want to hire people who will steal from them, or try to hurt one another, or do anything else that doesn’t fit their image. Now, a company called Social Intelligence is offering to comb through potential employee’s web posts to weed out the “unfit”.

Data for 500 million users requires more than one or two servers or even data centers. Current estimates include nine data centers handling the 30 billion items posted on Facebook each month.

Researchers from Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University tested a sample of popular Android apps to see just how much of your information they collect. It seems the apps not only collect your data, they send it on to advertisers along with your location.