New netbooks from Freescale are expected this summer featuring 8-hour battery life, a thinner design, and lower price.

It probably costs more than most iPhone apps, and you need to buy the car too, but Rinspeed has a concept car like none other. An app on your iPhone can instruct the car to pop extra passenger seating into place or streamline the body to increase aerodynamics.

“A computer in every room” is an old advertising cliche, but Asus has now introduced the “kitchen computer”, an inexpensive, touch-screen model.

“Disk Recovery” Wizard by WizardRecovery Company had been updated to make it easier to recover data from damaged hard disks and corrupted partitions.

O’Reilly Media and Palm, Inc. have joined forces to create an official resource for programming the webOS platform. The “rough cuts” version of the first chapters is available on-line.

Google will charge developers of apps for the Android smartphone a 30 percent transaction fee on each sale.

Under a new deal, Nokia will preload Skype software onto some of its new, high-end, smartphones.

Even though Palm has recently announced the end of the Palm OS, a lot of us still use the devices. We’ll continue to run some Palm OS reviews and stories, at least until more and more people are using the Pre. In this article, Heather Wardell looks at CallRec, which does a fine job of recording calls on your Treo

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

While most e-books are for adults, Still Motion Media has started MobiStories for children’s literature. MobiStories keeps the illustrations, but adds music, sound effects, narration and “turning pages” to accompany the original text.

The voice function in the Kindle 2 may have seemed like a good idea, but the Authors Guild thinks it sounds too much like copyright infringement. The robotic voice of the Kindle 2 may not be a replacement for a well-spoken audiobook, but might still hurt sales.