Of course, before you can buy things on the internet, you need to be on the internet, right?

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s new tablet might look a little bit like Apple Inc.’s latest blockbuster gadget but it’s not meant to be an iPad killer.

HP, the world’s largest computer maker, started selling the Slate 500 on Thursday. It costs $799 and, like the iPad, has a touch-sensitive screen and no keyboard. But unlike the iPad, the device is aimed squarely at business users.

iPad killer? Probably not. In fact, definitely not. Now go rest before it’s time to exercise.

Apple Inc said on Friday it will no longer ship Mac computers with Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash player pre-installed, as the company continues to erect barriers to the software.

Apple’s decision does not ban Flash software from its computers — as it has from the iPhone and iPad. Users will still be able to download and install a Flash player, which is widely-used to view videos on the Web.

Apple has been publicly hostile toward Flash and Steve Jobs has criticized it as a buggy battery hog. Adobe has responded by calling Apple overly restrictive.

It just goes to prove you can be strict and still be very successful. You can click here to become successful too!

AOL may buy more online media and even traditional newspapers in its bid to boost the digital content it offers customers, a senior company executive said.

“It is a possibility,” AOL Chief Technology Officer Alexander Gounares said on Wednesday.
The move would be in line with AOL’s strategy to have most of its content, including international content, from internal sources, he added.

It seems like AOL may be on the rise again. Wouldn’t it be nice to become an affiliate, so we could share the wealth too?

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams stepped down Monday as chief executive, handing over to a Google veteran brought in last year to help the micro-blogging service make money.

Williams, in a post on the company blog, said Twitter’s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo, would take over as CEO of the San Francisco-based startup effective immediately.

Costolo, whose Web content distribution company Feedburner was purchased by Google in 2007, has been at the forefront of efforts to begin monetizing Twitter since he joined the company last year.

Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit.

Doing it a lot can lead to “toasted skin syndrome,” an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure, according to medical reports.

Microsoft filed patent infringement complaints against Motorola and its Android phones in the International Trade Commission and U.S. federal court Friday, indicating that the software giant may hope to use its strong patent position as one way to set its mobile software apart from the competition.

Microsoft said that Motorola’s Android phones infringe nine patents, including some that would appear to threaten most smartphone platforms. Android is the open source OS built by Microsoft rival Google.

Time would be more well spent watching bathroom fans spin than to spend a dime encouraging the perpetuation of the addictive social media agenda.

Facebook now counts one of every two Americans as a user, would rank behind only China and India in population if it were a country and has an estimated value of more than $30 billion, larger than that of Starbucks.

What could possibly be next for a website that was created in a Harvard dorm room six years ago? Try a Hollywood film, “The Social Network,” that opens nationally on Friday and is already prompting discussion of Academy Awards.

Maybe, just maybe, Dish and Fox, and others, could realize that there is more to life than the bottom line.

Dish Network Corp said on Friday that News Corp’s Fox Networks has demanded a higher transmission fee and blocked its access to 19 regional sports networks and other programing.

Dish Network, the No. 2 U.S. satellite operator, said Fox was demanding a new contract with an “unprecedented rate increase of more than 50 percent.”

Fox has refused Dish’s request to let customers watch the channels while negotiations continue, the company said.

Microsoft Corp will formally offer a series of smartphones using the revamped version of its mobile operating system on October 11, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the launch plans.

AT&T Inc will start offering these phones four weeks after the launch, which is expected to be centered in New York, with additional events in other cities, the report said.

For some reason I don’t think the “Windows Phone 7” is going to bring back that nostalgic feeling of getting what you paid for.

Google has pulled the plug on the Nexus One, its once highly anticipated smartphone, following disappointing sales. The last shipment has arrived at Google HQ, and once those are gone there will be no more Nexus One devices for U.S. consumers.

Hmm. iPhones are still being sold. Poor Nexus One. It never had a chance.