After the family’s upholstery business closed, Eileen and Brett Rounsaville decided to use the leftovers to create handmade iPad cases. Some of the cases are even one-of-a-kind.

Many small businesses have joined Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to promote themselves. The results have often included loss of productivity and data, malware infections, network problems, and damage to the company reputation along with the increased exposure and sales.

We’ve all complained about the speed of internet access at one time or another. However, Trefor Davies, CEO of ISP Timico, is pitting some data-carrying homing pigeons against the local broadband in an 84-mile race.

The new website at Twitter.com will roll out to users over the next few weeks letting them see photos, videos, maps, and recent tweets on a sidebar.

Handheld US has announced the new Algiz XRW rugged notebook with a 10.1-inch widescreen, sunlight-readable MaxView screen technology, and a 2 GHz Intel Atom processor. It includes a 64 GB solid state disk and 2 GB of DDR2 RAM.

If you’re willing to wait for a couple of years, Microsoft is working on a touchscreen tablet described as “no thicker than sheet of glass”. No mention as to the actual thickness is made in this article.

Android is poised to be a major player in mobile platforms this year. But if each provider substantially modifies the operating system to fit their taste, are all the variations still Android?

If you think someone hacking into your e-mail is trivial, Roger Mildenhall’s house was sold without his knowledge after someone hacked his accounts. Police in Australia believe the criminals are based in Nigeria.

Mark Zuckerberg’s idea of your right to privacy may differ from yours. The New Yorker magazine has published a profile of Zuckerberg that contains some interesting items.

Everyone in business seems to be perpetually attached to their job any more. With a slew of mobile devices we keep up with work, friends, and the world at large. Some think we aren’t doing ourselves any favors.