Using flexible plastics and solar power, HP is working on a prototype watch for the military. The watch is expected to include map displays and more.

So far, Apple is the only major browser vendor not to announce support of the VP8 video codec. Google released the codec as part of the WebM Project.

In the near future, your cellphone will also be your credit card. To help pave the way, Visa has partnered with DeviceFidelity to offer an iPhone app to let you wave your phone over a special terminal to pay for goods and services.

Now that Apple has proved people are willing to buy a tablet computer, everyone else seems to be getting ready to launch their own version. This article looks at some of the rumors about what may be coming soon.

SBSH GoNews for Android aggregates news from across the web, and allows you to browse and read news items wherever you go, even when offline. And it’s free.

Sending a robot to your meetings might be an alternative your boss hadn’t thought of. But, at $15,000, there are some drawbacks.

Stanza has not been updated to run on the iPad and Amazon hasn’t yet said if it will update the app or not. Which may leave you with books to transfer. This article discusses how you can port your e-books to the iPad.

Those phone and notebook computers that over-heated and caught fire all seem to have something in common – moss. With repeated charges, the lithium forms dendrites, mossy fibers than can create a short circuit.

You can reject or delete cookies. You can use a proxy to hide your IP address. But. It seems you can still be identified by the “fingerprints” your browser leaves behind.

If you’re worried about Facebook’s “privacy settings” there are now some applications to help you reclaim a little privacy.