On October 19 Amazon will start shipping a new, less costly, “international” version of the Kindle e-reader. Amazon is already accepting orders for the updated device.

The Federal Trade Commission has introduced new rules aimed at bloggers who give “word of mouth” product reviews. The rules say “amateurs” must disclose if the product was given to them for free or face a possible fine.

The Palm App Catalog e-commerce program has gone live and Palm will open their webOS developer program to new members starting in December.

Thawte will discontinue its Thawte Personal E-mail Certificate and Web of Trust services effective November 16, 2009. Current customers will be given an option of a free 1-year Verisign E-mail certificate.

Google has developed its view of the web by citing “authority”, which works fine most of the time. But people have started using the web in “real-time” creating sudden spikes of traffic that look like spam or malware to Google.

BookGuard Pro offers a new free tool, the PDF Protection Analyzer, to help you protect your ebooks from being copied without your permission. This article includes a link to download the software.

Years ago, it was common to turn on your office computer, go make a pot of coffee, and about the time you poured your first cup, your PC would have finished booting. Or was that last week? Hardware makers have worked on the problem, and software makers make wild claims, but what kind of progress has been made?

For years Steve Jobs has said Apple wasn’t interested in doing a tablet. Now things have changed. This article provides several answers to exactly what has changed to prompt Apple to move forward on a tablet computer.

While some people are addicted to caffeine or computer games, it seems that some have grown addicted to their iPhone apps. iPhone “app abuse” is causing concern in some circles.

Start with an inexpensive Gateway LT2016u netbook. Add a $100 rebate offer, a 2-year 3G contract for $60 a month, and suddenly the netbook isn’t so cheap.