Yahoo!News reports that “Microsoft Corp. and the GSM Association are promoting 3G (third generation) mobile telecommunications by asking companies to build laptop PCs that automatically connect to the Internet wirelessly over mobile phone networks.  They're hosting a contest challenging companies to design mobile phone-like connectivity into easy-to-use laptops aimed at [...]

The Register reports that the “Russian Business Network (RBN) - the [c]ontroversial hosting firm fingered by many as a nexus of malware exploits and cybercrime more generally - has suddenly dropped offline.  According to Trend Micro, the Register says, “the infamous network dropped off the net at around 0200 GMT [...]

According to the International Herald Tribune, Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony Tuesday at a heated U.S. congressional hearing on the company's role in jailing the man.  Members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs repeatedly attacked Yang [...]

Slashdot writes that “[a]n Arizona State University researcher named Michael Kozicki claims that nanotechnology will replace disk drives in ten years. The article mentions three approaches: Nanowires (which replace electrons/capacitors), multiple memory layers on silicon (instead of a single layer), and a method that stores multiple pieces of information in [...]

The Seattle Times reports that “[h]igh-tech workers [in the U.S.] on federal permits are speaking out — many for the first time — over rules that leave them in personal and professional limbo. […] Legal immigrants who feel squeezed by limits on the number of green cards issued each year [...]