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We've known for some time that Apple would like to cram a projector into its next iPhone, but are they on track to really do so? It looks that way, at least according to a handful of patents Apple has applied for.

Research In Motion announced a new push service for BlackBerry software developers to help enable rapid delivery of application-content to BlackBerry smartphones.

It's been a rough day for Google's Android phone, the Nexus One. First we learned this morning that initial sales have been far weaker than the iPhone saw ...and now this

olumnist Scott Bradner says concerns of a "cyberwar" miss the main threat to network infrastructures. To date, essentially all cyberattacks where the perpetrators have been identified have been the work of small groups of individuals.

Several major U.S. Internet companies, including Google and Facebook, need to "step up" and better protect consumer privacy or face tougher penalties from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a commissioner said Wednesday.

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Information being sold to third parties includes blog posts, photos, status updates, and more.

Tiger Woods will compete in the 2010 Masters tournament next month, returning to golf from his five-month hiatus. If you want to see him play, you'll be able to do so in a new way: Comcast will stream live video of the Masters in addition to its traditional cable broadcast of the event, and both will be available in 3D.

Google has created a free tool to simplify and automate the migration of e-mail, calendar and contacts data from Microsoft Exchange servers to its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite.

A little Luck of the Irish!

Traces of the now defunct Mariposa botnet has been found on another HTC Magic from Vodafone in Spain, security company Panda wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

When technology leaps ahead of business models, it's often bad for profits. Cisco's new router poses just such a threat to the titans of movie making.

Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.

Details of Windows Phone 7 and the development environment are coming to light at Microsoft's MIX10 Web developer conference.

Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries.

Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries.

Performance monitoring service Gomez has released its annual list of major websites with the best overall responsiveness as measured by Gomez over the entire year 2009. Surprise winner: IRS.gov, a site that uses images sparingly and pushes off large documents to PDF format for downloading, rather than trying to serve them as Web pages.

Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer 9 browser may not be anywhere close to competition, but you can test drive a "platform preview" of the software that provides a taste of IE9's capabilities. So what's the deal? And how does it differ from IE8 and worthy competitors? Here's a quick primer.

According to a Charter Communications rep, starting May 1st, cable companies will have total, FCC-sanctioned control over streaming video and will take down all competing services.