ThickButtons is a new keyboard app for Android devices that shrinks the size of the keys for “less commonly used” letters. It’s currently available for English though the company says other languages are coming.

Online learning has revolutionized the way we gather and share knowledge, but it is not without its share of risks.

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In this book, Andres Ferrate shows you how Google Wave integrates email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functionality into an extensible platform. You’ll also learn how to use its features, customize functions, and build extensions with Google Wave’s open APIs and network protocol.

A $99 tablet, with a 10-inch screen, could replace many of the hardbound textbooks students are currently required to buy. This article includes photos of a prototype device.

The MoSync SDK (version 2.3), now emerging from beta testing, provides support for Android 1.5 (Cupcake)-compatible mobile devices.

As many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones sold in Spain were discovered to be pre-infected with the Mariposa botnet, Conficker worm, and a password stealer.

After an employee at an auto dealership was laid off, he exacted revenge by remotely disabling the ignition systems on 100 cars.

The Palm Pre isn’t selling as well as the company hoped. Fewer than 500,000 Palm smartphones sold in the last quarter compared to over 8 million iPhones.

With the addition of a program to run on Macs, you can now read your Kindle books on a wide variety of devices.

PCWorld is collecting photos, and horror stories, about the bad end your laptop may have met. There’s an e-mail address, for those blood-curdling submissions, included on this page.