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Introducing Google Buzz widget for Android (200 diggs) Google announces the release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.

Mobile learning with iPhone now possible (199 diggs) Developing countries often lack the appropriate infrastructure and trained personnel to enable lifelong learning or continuing education. Although broadband Internet is on the rise, it still requires a big funds investment. Currently the mobile infrastructure is the main access point for Internet communication ...

Twitter Will Be Available in China…Someday (262 diggs) While most of the world happily enjoys Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months.

Platform Preview gives Web developers first taste of IE9 (506 diggs) Microsoft has released the Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview for Web developers to start playing around with Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft is promising to update it approximately every eight weeks with the latest IE9 builds.

uTorrent Accused of Unfairness, Banned by Trackers (931 diggs) The uTorrent team released the long-awaited version 2.0 of their popular application last month. The overall reception has been very positive, but critics have labeled the new release as unfair, which has resulted in the client being banned from several private BitTorrent trackers.

Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Apps (396 diggs) Google's Apps suite for domain owners and businesses has finally received some star treatment with the launch of the Apps Marketplace. Which Google-friendly apps are free, worth the cost, and entirely useful? These 10 are definitely worth a look.

YouTube Guide: Best YouTube Tips, Hacks and Resources (433 diggs) This article aims to be a one-stop destination for all things YouTube. It covers numerous tricks, hacks, tools and apps for YouTube fans. The guide is long, detailed and informative.

New Site Unmasks Chatroulette Players (341 diggs) Does Chatroulette, the popular video chat site, lose its appeal if it loses its anonymity? Chatroulette offers a welcome break from the daily digital footprints I leave across the Web on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz, where every comment, tweet and “like” is tied back to my real-world identity.

Bicycling Directions, Trails Comes to Google Maps (379 diggs) There's nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed.

10 awesome yet forgotten CD-ROMs from the 90's [Slideshow] (546 diggs) Before the Internet provided instant access to vast stores of reference information, news, entertainment, and the like, there were CD-ROMs.

Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads! (275 diggs) Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app.

US softens Internet export rules for Iran, Sudan & Cuba | (303 diggs) Looking to facilitate what it calls free speech rights in countries that don't look favorably at such liberties, the US government Monday said it would ease the regulations around exporting Internet-based applications such as e-mail, blogging and social networking software to Iran, Sudan and Cuba

Comcast's Latest iPhone App Manages Your DVR From Anywhere (257 diggs) Comcast is fairly evil, to be sure. But if they're doing one thing right, it's the latest version of their free iPhone app, Comcast Mobile App 2.0.

Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly (437 diggs) Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year.

Five Best VPN Tools (632 diggs) VPN software gives you access to private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools.

5 Great Extensions To Manage Various Tasks On Google Chrome (345 diggs) From opening a new tab to restoring or saving our session,we perform various tasks in our internet browsers. Sometimes these tasks are present in the browser in an already convenient enough manner to make life easier for the user. But at other times,in the form of extensions and add-ons,third-party developers make these browser tasks easier for us.

6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed (413 diggs) Using many plugins can affect a website's performance, and thus, you must be highly selective in choosing the plugins you install. In this article, we share with you the WordPress plugins that we use on our sites.

Recent Nvidia Drivers Causing Catastrophic Failures (510 diggs) If you're using an Nvidia graphics card you should check your drivers, as there is a chance the newest drivers could cause your card to overheat during World of Warcraft, the Starcraft II Beta, or even Warcraft III.

Software patents should only be valid for 7 years (692 diggs) Patent trolls would generally disappear, because a loophole in the current patent system allows them to wait for a technology to spread before retro-actively patenting it.

Opera 10.50 Lands On Windows, Mac And Linux Version (399 diggs) Opera Software today released Opera 10.50, which it touts as “the fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers” (which, in turn, calls for a comprehensive speed test – anyone?).

Opera 10.50 Web browser released (559 diggs) Opera Software has released version 10.50 of their desktop browser for Windows.

Google buys cloud photo editing site Picnik (322 diggs) Until recently, you had to edit your photos using client software on your computer, but today Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud.

New Google Chrome browser translates websites (374 diggs) Google's new version of its web broswer offer automatic translation of websites as well as enhanced privacy controls

Google Adds Flickr, Picasa Photos to Street View (337 diggs) Google actually began incorporating geo-tagged photos into Street View last year, but they've now added a new photo-viewing interface for users moving through a Street View tour of well-captured areas. That allows you to peek at places that weren't accessible by Google's camera-topped cars, and also provides more angles on any area y

Why Google Pushed Buzz Out The Door Before It Was Ready (343 diggs) When Google Buzz launched three weeks ago, the product wasn't ready. There were basic privacy issues that still needed to be hammered out.