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ViewSonic is making a 10.1-inch tablet that will come with both Windows Home 7 Premium and Google’s Android 1.6, and can boot with either operating system.
 

Facebook plans a “mobile event” Wednesday and all bets are “on” as to what the site will reveal. Some bets are safer than others.

The first phase of the $100 million Facebook-funded makeover of Newark’s school system will reach far beyond classrooms and into living rooms.

Another useful Apple peripheral device bites the dust today, thanks to the effectiveness of Apple’s litigation muscle.

Improve your video-chat quality this holiday season by upgrading to high definition. Here are PCWorld’s recommendations for the year’s top webcams.

Ze Frank’s Like Mom Like Dad website offers participants a new way to connect with their parents.
 

A quick-thinking girl prevented a kidnapper from taking her when she held up her iPod Touch — which looks exactly like the iPhone — and told the man she was calling 9-1-1.

You can’t get away from a cell phone call, even at the top of the world.  Thanks to 3G towers newly installed near Mount Everest’s base camp, explorers can surf the Web, tweet and post Facebook updates without worrying that their signals will disappear into thin air.
 

Schools receiving subsidies for Internet service will have to teach students about cyberbullying and the responsible use of social networking sites, the U.S. telecommunications regulator said on Friday.

Meet Boo, the Pom pup doing his darndest to ensure pounds and Pomeranian rescues are bursting at their adorable seams just in time by Christmas.
 

When a local Arkansas school board member allegedly posted an expletive-laced hate speech towards dead gay children, reportedly inspired by a Facebook invite to honor those who committed suicide, he clearly didn’t understand the impact of social media.
 

A leading Chinese research center has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, an industry announcement said Thursday, underscoring the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
 

The program organizes information around specific locations so users “can more easily make comparisons and decide where to go.”

BLTWY B-List: Sharron Angle debuts a controversial new game and Michelle Obama and Jill Biden appear on “Ellen.”
 

While the idea behind Google TV holds great promise, the first products to come from that vision are too impotent and hard to use. The search giant decided to aim a missile of change at the very broken television experience. It’s noble, but it could well be just another Google idea doomed to fizzle.