The wireless protocol 802.11n, or Wireless N, is set to be finalized next month. The new wireless standard could enable connection speeds of up to 600Mbps.

While many people are concerned about Google’s Book Search project, the American Association of People with Disabilities has come forward to support the project. Making books available on the internet will allow the blind and homebound greater access.

Microsoft licenses its operating system with restrictions, some built into the OS, some contractual. Five netbooks have run afoul of the specifications for installing some form of Windows and are being discontinued.

In this article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz explores your options if you want to migrate off of the now-obsolete Palm Desktop to Outlook, the iPhone, the Pre, or some cloud service like Google.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Google plans to buy On2 Technologies leading HTML 5 fans to hope for open-source video formats for the web.

Agendus is a personal productivity solution for BlackBerry phones which extends the built-in Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and now, Memos.

You’ve built a killer app for the iPhone and had Apple turn it down? It seems there’s a marketplace for such apps, called Cydia, where developers can still earn a buck.

There were 8-inch floppies, then 5-inch floppies, and finally 3.5-inch floppies before they went away. Now there are flash drives, SSD drives, DVDs. What’s next? And, will it be able to read anything from the older formats?

For people using OS X on their MacBooks, battery life is fairly long. But. If they launch virtualization software and bring up Windows, battery life is impressively short. The jury is out as to who is to blame.

A new application from Intel, called BOINC, allows you to crowd-source your unused computer cycles. Facebook users can choose to donate cycles to finding a cure for cancer, fighting malaria in Africa, or predicting the Earth’s climate.