A television host was given an HTC smartphone to review. On his way home, he left it on the roof of his car. After finding the device, he did the review. This article includes the 4-minute video.

Cable and satellite provides in the US will soon be allowed to block the analog output jacks on your computer when you watch a first-release movie over the internet.

Now that HP has purchased Palm, and WebOS, it’s possible the Slate will no longer use a Windows operating system. And. If the operating system is changed, so might the name.

Currently Wi-Fi using the 802.11n protocol operates at a maximum of 150 Mbps. A new frequency band, at 60-GHz, would allow far higher transfer rates. Routers able to handle the new band are expected to be available in about two years.

Originally Apple was going to allow Japanese users the ability to connect the iPad 3G to different cellular carriers. Now they’ve changed their minds. iPad 3Gs being sold on the international market will be unlocked, except in Japan.

In this very interesting article, Morgan Slain discusses the issues involved in keeping an organization’s passwords secure.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Last year people were surprised when Amazon deleted copies of George Orwell’s book “1984” from their Kindles. But what should be the stance on fixing errors or adding content to e-books you’ve purchased?

Scribd provides on-line access to documents, in a format called iPaper, using Flash to display content in your browser. This week they started moving the most popular documents to HTML5.

Point your Android device at text in another language and get an instant translation? That’s the idea behind Google Goggles. This article provides a quick explanation of how it actually works.

A group of cell phone makers in China has promised not to pre-install apps on their devices that bleed money from users without their knowledge. Whether this pledge will stop installation of these apps is unknown.