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by Angela Moscaritolo
PC Mag

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday morning confirmed that it will be rolling its printer business into its personal computer unit to "improve performance and drive profitable growth."

by Louie Herr
Digital Trends

I was on a podcast with fellow Digital Trends columnist Rob Enderle and editor Nick Mokey ages ago. I enjoyed it very much, and I like Rob Enderle. From what I could garner from my limited interactions with him, Rob's days are full of wonderful, nerdy things. He gets paid to write about those nerdy things. It sounds like the kind of life I'd like to have!

by Geri Coleman Tucker and Jefferson Graham
USA TODAY

If you are hoping to score a new iPad from Apple, you might have to wait. Apple's website shows March 19 as the earliest ship date for online orders of its popular tablet computer. And there is a limit of two per customer on the number of tablets that can preordered.

by Jenna Wortham
The Sydney Morning Herald

Smartphones have become indispensable for some people to find nearby cool new places for a bite or a drink.

Pictured: A social event ... Paul Davison, founder of Highlight, in the company offices in San Francisco. Photo: Peter DaSilva/The New York Times

by Nathan Eddy
eWeek

More Chinese are using the Internet than ever before, with more than 500 million users in China accessing the Web, according to a report by the state-run China Internet Network Information Center. The report said the number of people using the Web rose 12 percent in December to 513 million people.

FoxNews.com

Popular online shoe retailer Zappos.com said late Sunday that hackers had accessed its network, stealing customer account information from as many as 24 million customers.

Google Instant may let you search the Web at warp speed, but the debate rages on about whether the new search technology is good for users and Website owners.

 

Google searches will now predict what users are looking for from the moment they start typing, the company announced. As internet users begin a word, Google's homepage will move instantly to a page of results that is updated as each letter is typed.

Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) announced a deal to buy security software firm ArcSight Inc (ARST.O) for $1.5 billion in a bid by the world's top personal computer maker to cash in on growing demand for security technology.

YouTube, in a move that highlights the Google-owned video-sharing site's broadcasting ambitions, launched a two-day trial on Monday of a live streaming video platform.

Nokia's decision to poach a Microsoft president as chief executive is as surprising for Nokia watchers as it is challenging for the company he leaves behind.

A team of lexicographers are preparing the third edition of the OED but it may never be printed

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: MySpace has at last decided to sync with Facebook, allowing users to cross-post content and share status updates.

Google plans to begin rolling out to Gmail users on Tuesday a new feature designed to automatically rearrange messages in their inbox so that the most important and pressing ones appear at the top.

This week Google has released the newest version of Google Chrome web browser and the fixes included memory corruption, address bar spoofing and browser crashes.  Google took to the best digital bounty hunters on the web to help find what needed fixing and the group did not disappoint while the cost of the fixes came to a cool $10,000.

Facebook jumped into the location-based check-in arena this week with the launch of Facebook Places. Facebook Places has the potential to dominate, but in its early form it is missing key elements it will need to compete with established rivals.