PERSONAL TECH Verizon Offers Prepaid Data Plans In what could be the first phase of a transformation in the way its smartphone users pay for Internet use, the nation's biggest carrier, Verizon Wireless, has introduced prepaid data plans. |
CHIPS & PROCESSORS Nvidia Shows New GPUs for Laptops New notebooks with the Nvidia GeForce 400M series of graphics processing units are being released this fall, and the chipmaker introduced the new chips at the IFA consumer electronics show. |
PERSONAL TECH Spammers Take Over Apple's Ping Apple launched iTunes 10 with its Ping social network, and within hours, the site fell victim to spammers looking to make a quick buck from Apple's unsuspecting 160 million music lovers. |
WIRELESS TECH Free Wireless Service Plan Rejected The Federal Communications Commission has shot down a proposal by a startup called M2Z Networks to build a free, nationwide wireless broadband network using a spare slice of the nation's airwaves. |