The iPad's pre-orders have been strong enough that they could outrun even the original iPhone's first 3-month sales as "hundreds of thousands" of units are said to have been pre-ordered, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Google has patched as many as 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of its Chrome browser, including one that earned its finder the first US$1,337 check from the company's new bug bounty program.

Hollywood and Bollywood will join forces to combat piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets.

The Australian market for ebook readers is set to heat up, with giant Korean manufacturer Samsung confirming that it was planning to bring its own range of the devices to Australia "in the second half of 2010".

Apple is removing screen protectors for its iPhone, iPod, and MacBook devices from the company's online and retail stores.

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsIn a message sent to developers today, Apple announced that it is now accepting iPad apps for the iTunes app store. To have apps approved (or rejected) in time for the iPad launch, they must be submitted to Apple by 5pm PDT on Saturday, March 27. Only apps built with the iP...

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsThis week, documents from Viacom\'s billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement were published, and the three-year-long-and-counting lawsuit has again been brought to the public\'s attention. In case you haven\'t been following the case, here\'s a quic...

By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetanewsLiterally every day at Betanews, we get at least one security vendor \"alert\" of some type, warning us to be on the lookout for the latest malware. The message is always the same: Advise users to stay vigilant, to keep patching, to upgrade their antivirus to the lat...

The FLIR M-Series night vision system has pulled out top honors in the DAME award, one of the world's most prominent design awards.

Telegent Systems, the corporation that sorts television mobile, announced today that Telegent's analog mobile TV receiver is conveying in Samsung's Star TV S5233T handset, only just launched in Southeast Asia.

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsLate in February, Palm issued a shareholder warning which said that profits for the full year were going to be \"well below\" expectations due to a surprisingly slow demand for Palm\'s smartphones.Today, the company issued its third quarter earnings report, and though the n...

By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetanewsDownload Nvidia ForceWare Drivers for Windows version 197.73 from Fileforum now.Version 196.75 of Nvidia\'s GeForce/Ion drivers were indeed responsible for fan overheating problems reported by users. That\'s the verdict from Nvidia, which in a second round of respons...

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsFor more than five years, Netflix has had a feature called \"Friends\" which lets users connect their Netflix account with others so they can view each other\'s queues, suggest movies to each other, or see how a movie ranks against their peers\' ratings.Todd Yellin, Netflix...

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsWhen Amazon debuted its first Kindle e-reader just over two years ago, we asked \"...but will anyone buy it?\"We still can\'t say for certain.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made it very clear that Kindle users consume a lot of Amazon\'s e-books. But to date, Bezos has never gone...

By Carmi Levy, BetanewsEver since she brought me into the world, my mother has taught me many things, namely to not only learn from my own mistakes, but also from the mistakes of others.Microsoft clearly never spoke to my mom, as evidenced by its decision to leave cut, copy, and paste capabilities o...

Panasonic Corp., which acquired a controlling stake in battery maker Sanyo Electric Co., may boost its annual profit by more than 80 billion yen (US$885 million) in three years by merging operations.

A court in Texas has ordered Microsoft to pay communications software maker VirnetX US$105.75 million after a jury found it guilty of willful infringement of two patents belonging to the company.

Apple's latest tablet computer, the iPad, may just be what magazine publishers need to boost declining circulation.

Search leader Google said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business thanks to the growing popularity of powerful smart phones.