People Power, a green-tech company based in Palo Alto, CA, has created something it calls SuRF, for Sensor Ultra-Radio Frequency, to connect your household appliances and gadgets to a wireless network. The idea is to reduce your power use.

By excluding unapproved apps, Apple has created a wall around their computing platform. For some this seems like a bad idea, for others it takes a lot of the pain out of computers.

Those cars Google sends out to collect pictures for Street View have been collecting more than pictures. It seems the cars collected gigabytes of data from Wi-Fi networks in 30 countries.

Google demonstrated the Chrome OS back in November, intending it to be used for netbooks and other small computers. Now Acer plans to demonstrate some devices at the Compudex Taipei trade show next month.

Like most new handset releases, the US release of HTC’s HD2 was one of the “most anticipated” possible “iPhone-killers” in recent history. The first Windows Mobile phone to utilize a capacitive-touch screen, is the HD2 truly an iPhone-killer, or is it just so much filler? Read on as Editor-at-Large James Booth takes you through the ins and outs of this newest mobile device.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

An open-source social networking system called Diaspora, being developed by four college students, is now $115,000 richer thanks to crowd-sourced funding.

In this book, Joe Kissell discusses using the Mail app on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch while providing troubleshooting advice.

This book shows you how to apply OpenGL graphics programming techniques to devices running the iPhone OS. Author Philip Rideout offers practical advice for using the iPhone SDK and OpenGL.

Now that most of our cars are computerized, they’re also open to hacking. Researchers have discovered a number of ways in which your new car is vulnerable to attack.

Rectangles are out, squares are in. At least several phone makers think so. Nokia, Microsoft, and Motorola are all releasing phones that are both small and square.