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In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.

His name is Cashmore, but is his company cashable? Might Mashable , the number Social Media Blog in the world entertain an offer from AOL?

The big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas (January 7-10) was 3-D TVs. While Steve Ballmer’s introduction of his new Microsoft Tablet is expected to compete head-on with Apple’s launch of their new iSlate/Tablet in March, it appears that the influence of the movie Avatar’s 3-D technology is stretching from the large screen to the small screen.

With the heightened popularity of hand-held devices in 2009, eReaders took the number one spot as  the top gift item this past holiday season. And it appears even with the soon-to-be released Apple iSlate and the proposed Google Netbook nothing is going to stop Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Readers from continuing to battle it out for market share.

I saw the story’s headline this morning on Reuters.com: ” Limits to antidepressants’ effectiveness ,” but as I read beyond the headline, I learned that the effects of only two antidepressant medications (the generic versions of Paxil and Tofranil) were studied in the research purportedly demonstrating that all or most antidepressants have little effect on mild to moderately depressed persons.

Always wanted to co-star with your favorite love interest in a TV romance? A Korean film studio is making it happen today for love-lorn Japanese drama fans.

To celebrate ‘World Hypnotism Day’ on January 4, 2010 at 8:30PM GMT, British hypnotist Chris Hughes plans to hypnotize a record number of the Twitterati and Facebookers by simply broadcasting his voice via Twitter and Facebook.

Google and other search engines have been caught in the cross-hairs of Rupert Murdoch’s vitriolic attacks regarding content control. In the age of citizen journalism that is slowly melding into semantic technology before our very eyes, Murdoch’s posturing is pure theatrics and his business model is outdated. The era of legacy of newspapers is waning and the titan of the tabloids needs to take heed.

Just as soon as secret rumors caught fire that Apple’s soon-to-be released “tablet,” will now be released under the new name, “iSlate,” a fresh wave of rumors have hit the digital airwaves. Apparently,  Google has released RFPs (Request For Proposal) to several hardware companies including two prominent computer manufacturers in Asia to launch their new netbook. While these two titans battle it out for marketshare, will Kindle and other PDA (personal digital assistant) devices just sit on sidelines?

Companies and research firms may eventually transition most of their high-level computing tasks to a global network of servers known as “clouds.” This top ten list notes the pioneers who are positioned to dominate that field.