
After making a fuss about the low price of e-books on Amazon.com, MacMillan is again joining the list of publishers offering titles through Amazon.

If you’re looking for Firefox updates, doing an internet search is probably not the way to find it. Such searches are actually offering spyware instead of updates.

The HTC Incredible may be the phone that steals users from the Nexus One. This article includes a couple of pictures of a prototype phone, expected to run the Android 2.1 operating system.

Author Jorge Sosa describes his disappointment with Apple’s $500 Etch-a-Sketch.
Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Google’s plans to create a digital library of all the world’s literature has hit another snag. The U.S. Justice Department has said there are still “issues” with the plan.

Amazon wanted to tempt you to buy more e-books by selling them for less than paper books, but publishers have objected. Apple has been more willing to work with publishers, selling e-books at higher prices, increasing the number of books in the App Store.

Qualcomm hopes to have Mirasol, an e-reader, on the market by the end of the year. Mirasol promises to combine color, speedy refresh rates and low power consumption in a single display.

After the recent hack to its systems, Google is asking the experts for help, making a number of people uncomfortable. Sources are trying to assure users that no personal, or proprietary, data will be shared with the agency.

Apple may have resisted VoIP apps for the iPhone, but is now enabling Skype over 3G for the iPad. Skype promises their app will deliver better sound quality than their competitors.

A report from Needham & Company predicts that Apple will sell two million iPads this year and another 6 million next year. Or. It could fall flat on its face, though that may be unlikely.