Smartphone manufacturers face security and labor issues in Asia

After the suicide of a Chinese worker, Apple challenged to improve working environment:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/technology/companies/27apple.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Amazon expands retail stable

Successful online footwear retailer Zappos is Amazon's largest acquisition to date: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/technology/companies/23amazon.html?emc=eta1

Microsoft and Amazon report lower earnings

The economic contraction has cut deeply into profits at the world's largest software company: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/technology/companies/24soft.html?emc=eta1 and at the one of the world's premiere online retailers: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/technology/companies/24amazon.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Palm battles Apple over iTunes use

Palm creates work around for connecting Pre to iTunes: http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewContent.act?tag=3.5721%3Ficx_id=D99KVJBO0

Apple growth continues unabated

Surge in computers and iPhones result in best non-holiday quarter ever: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/technology/companies/22apple.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Japanese smartphone firms reevaluate software platforms

For Japanese smartphone manufacturers to survive, they will have to convert to global standards: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/technology/20cell.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Corporate use of Twitter growing

Tens of thousands of businesses are now using Twitter-like functionality for networking: https://www.yammer.com/users/new

Motion sensors becoming standard

One-third of all mobile devices will have motion sensors by 2010: http://moconews.net/article/419-report-1-out-of-every-3-phones-to-have-motion-sensors-next-year/

Google's profits up as ad revenues stabalize

Google shows healthy numbers for second quarter: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/technology/companies/17google.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

How-to start ups find niche

Instructional videos have become ubiquitous: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/business/12howcast.html?emc=eta1

iPhone adds personal organization to its array

If you're organizationally challenged, here are some helpful apps available on the iPhone: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09basics.html?emc=eta1

Microsoft's Bing a worthy challenge to Google

Microsoft and Google have no fear of challenging each other's strengths. Bing offers compelling evidence that it is ready for the search engine challenge: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?emc=eta1

Google challenges Microsoft with Internet-based OS

Internet-based computing takes a step forward with Google's open source operating system: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html?emc=eta1

iPhone stakes claim to gaming

As if its competitors don't have enough to do to catch up to the iPhone's robust multimedia offerings, Apple has upped the stakes with a serious bid for the mobile gaming market: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/technology/29iphone.html?emc=eta1

Nokia and Intel join the smartphone fray

The writing is on the wall: the convergent device will have all the properties of a computer and a phone and a lot more. Cellphone giant Nokia and computer chip behemoth Intel join forces to address the future: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/technology/business-computing/24chip.html?emc=eta1

In battle of the smartphones, apps rule

Cultivating a stable of developers is Palm Pre's challenge in an iPhone and BlackBerry world: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/technology/companies/24palm.html?emc=eta1

Lessons learned from Twitter at the barricades

To paraphrase McLuhan, Twitter is a neutral medium; you can use it mindlessly, or start a revolution: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/weekinreview/21cohenweb.html?emc=eta1

New iPhone and software a hit

Critics agree that the new iPhone (3GS) and its new software (which can be loaded to the previous version) answer many objections. My favorite--the landscape keyboard: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/technology/personaltech/18pogue.html?emc=eta1

Relational search engine reformulates web organization

Wolfram/Alpha query port adds artificial intelligence quotient to the Internet universe: http://www.alternet.org/media/140637

U.S. Gov't encourages Twitter during Iranian protests

During the recent demonstrations in Iran over questionable election results, the U.S. government's recognition of social networking came of age: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html?emc=eta1

Model for universal connectivity: Wireless welfare

Between the dropping price of notebooks and the increasing capabilities of wireless devices, Bill Gates' dream of universal connectivity is now on the table. But how will the world's poor be enabled to participate? A U.S. government program provides a clue: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/technology/15cell.html?_r=1&emc=eta1