T-Mobile USA announced a groundbreaking new home phone service that enables customers to make unlimited nationwide calls from their home phone for just $10 per month. Beginning July 2, T-Mobile will breathe new life and value into the home phone by launching nationwide T-Mobile @Home. The service allows customers to keep their home phone number, ditch their high phone bill and save money by adding their home phone line to their T-Mobile service.

T-Mobile @Home FreedomFest–on July 2nd in New York, Chicago and Denver, T-Mobile will have an Independence Day BBQ, treating guests to free food, games, music and prizes. The grand prize in each city will be mortgage or rent paid for one year, and 11 second place prizes of T-Mobile @Home service for one year. Additionally, 15 military families in each city will win one month of paid mortgage or rent.

Beginning July 7th, two new homes will be given away. One home will be awarded through a partnership with ABC’s “The View,” and the second home giveaway will be through an online contest and retail store events. Customers will also have the chance to win other great prizes, including one month of their mortgage or rent paid, or a $100 T-Mobile gift card.

T-Mobile announced the availability of the Nokia 6301 and Samsung t339, the newest phones to support T-Mobile HotSpot @Home.

The Nokia 6301 (a stainless steel bar phone that comes with a standup charger) and Samsung t339 (a thin, red flip-phone) provide customers with great wireless coverage when placing calls over an accessible Wi-Fi connection. With the purchase of a HotSpot @Home add-on plan, customers can enjoy the freedom of unlimited, nationwide calling over Wi-Fi.

Most people either love or hate the iPhone’s touch screen, and based on a report in the LA Times, women with long fingernails are among the haters. Why? Well, since the iPhone’s touchscreen only responds to electrical charges emitted by your bare fingertips, women with long nails are left out in the cold. A woman interviewed for the article went so far as to suggest Apple was being misogynistic because it did not include a stylus for women and didn’t consider womens’ fingers and nails when designing the phone.

If your business has a bunch of aging IBM/Lenovo notebooks or computers on-hand, you can now turn to Lenovo Asset Recovery Services to figure out how to ditch them appropriately.

The services cover computer take-back, data destruction, refurbishment and recycling. Lenovo estimates that a customer can recover 10 percent to 15 percent of the original purchase price of the computer, based on 5 percent depreciation per month and normal wear-and-tear. The company expects the amount of computers returned to it each year to grow by roughly 30 percent as a result of the program.

The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced platform to rival Google’s much-feted Android Open Handset Alliance project.

Nokia is to buy out the remaining shares in Symbian that it does not already own for $410 million, and it will then contribute Symbian and its own Series 60 (S60) platform to a new not-for-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation. The major immediate difference for companies that deal with Symbian will be that they no longer have to pay a license fee to the company for using the platform.

Adobe has shipped a critical update to patch a code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of its Reader and Acrobat products.

According to Adobe’s advisory, the flaw “could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”

Tivo users in the Time-Warner network are discovering that there’s a new problem now that their cable boxes have updated with the new Digital Navigator software. Apparently, the Digital Navigator software does a download at the top of the hour and ignores channel-changing requests during that download — resulting in very intermittent channel changing for Tivo boxes.

Tivo is aware of this and has two possible workarounds. The first is to set your season pass to change channels one minute earlier and the second is to find the slowest possible IR signal and hope it works.

Welcome to a new kind of space race, where the earthly guest will be a machine and the goal is as much exploration as seeking out new business ventures.

The quest is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which will put $20 million into the hands of the first privately funded team that can land a rover on the moon; have it travel on the surface for 500 meters or more; send back data, photos and video; and do it all by December 31, 2012.

The prize drops to $15 million after that date and goes away altogether after 2014. One of the main requirements is to have as little government involvement in the project as possible.

The thousands of consumers planning to snap up a 3G iPhone when they go on sale could be hit with bills of thousands of pounds if they download music or programs overseas, industry insiders warn.

Apple and its partner O2 have used the unlimited download facility in much of its marketing for both the first iPhone that hit the shops last November, and the new 3G model, which will be available free on some O2 tariffs.

Does the iPhone deliver or is it all just a load of hype? And will it retain its gloss for the duration of an expensive 18-month contract. Here are 50 other things you should consider before parting with your cash.