Macworld.com - The beauty of a digital camera is that you can show off the results seconds after taking the shots. But sharing your photos with a large group means either being willing to let your camera get passed around or forcing everyone to crowd around the small LCD screen on the back. With the Coolpix S1000pj, Nikon offers a third option. This compact point-and-shoot camera can project your digital photos onto a nearby wall.

Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: Your answer to 'Minneapolis Commuter' (June 8), who was sick of overhearing personal cell phone conversations, missed the mark. I ride public transit to and from Sacramento every day, and most of the time the passengers -- like me -- just want a quiet ride to work and back. Sometimes a rude, obnoxious and very loud person will get on and make life miserable for the rest of us.

Macworld.com - Nikon on Tuesday announced the addition of new point-and-shoot cameras to its Coolpix line, including the S70, S640, and S570. All three will be available in September.

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices introduced a new chipset on Monday with an integrated graphics core that provides a better high-definition video experience compared to earlier chipsets, the company said.

AFP - Intel unveiled a software program that lets Facebook users devote spare computer processing power to researching diseases or climate change.

PC Magazine - That LCD on the back of your camera can get a little crowded when family and friends are all clamoring at once to view your images. Nikon is intent on changing that with the introduction of the Nikon COOLPIX S1000pj, the world's first camera to a feature a built-in projector.

AFP - More than 15,000 people have signed an Internet petition calling for the late pop star Michael Jackson to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

Reuters - A growing number of British teenagers are swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers, police and a children's charity said on Tuesday.

Macworld.com - Smith Micro Software on Tuesday announced the release of Poser 8, a major new release of its 3D character creation and animation software for Mac OS X and Windows. It costs $250, with upgrades priced at $130.

PC World - Predicting PlayStation 3 price drops is at this point a bit like buying up every lottery ticket in the universe before playing. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The chances that Sony won't eventually whack a chunk of change off its price tag are of course scientifically zero, so it's all down to guessing, guessing again, then guessing again until you've got it right. Right?

PC World - Memory maker OCZ has confirmed it will launch a new 1TB Solid State Drive (SSD) that will fit 3.5-inch drive slots later this month. Various gadget sites have been reporting on the rumors of the launch, and now the company confirmed that the 1TB Colossus SSD drive will be available in mid-August. Also confirmed: the drive will cost a whopping $2,200.

AFP - More than half of all Europeans are now regularly using the Internet, according to a study released Tuesday that highlights the emergence of a new 'digital generation'.

Reuters - A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said on Tuesday.

Macworld.com - The Khronos Group, the same industry consortium that on Monday released the OpenGL 3.2 specification, on Tuesday announced WebGL, a new initiative that its proponents hope will drive a standard for the display of hardware-accelerated 3D graphics on the Web.

AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday he will convene a summit of experts to figure out what to do about driver cell phone use and texting, practices that studies — and a growing number of accidents — show can be deadly.

Macworld.com - Quark on Tuesday announced the release of QuarkXPress 8.1, a new version of the company’s flagship page layout software for Mac OS X and Windows. The update is free for registered QuarkXPress 8 users; upgrades to version 8 are priced at $299 for any previous version of QuarkXPress 3 or later, and $799 for new licenses.

PC World - Google has announced their intention to make future versions of their Android mobile operating system more enterprise-friendly and fight harder to gain market share from competitors like the RIM (Research in Motion) Blackberry. Android has a long way to go to be an enterprise-class mobile platform, and Google isn't even heading in the right direction.

PC World - Philadelphia based Parat Solutions have revealed their latest iPod Dock, which can support up to twenty devices simultaneously, five more than their previous effort.

PC World - Google says future versions of its Android operating system will have a more business focus, putting it in greater competition with RIM. This is from a Reuters report that simply confirms the obvious: BlackBerry seems ripe for picking.

AP - When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message.

Macworld.com - This week Hitachi announced its new CP-X3010N LCD projector, a networked version of its existing CP-X3010. The recommended retail price for the CP-X3010N projector is $3395.

NewsFactor - Google's Android operating system is getting ready for business, according to Vice President Andy Rubin.

Reuters - The Pentagon has ordered a review of its use of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, citing concerns that security could be compromised, officials said on Tuesday.

Macworld.com - More than six years after the launch of the iTunes Store here in the U.S., Apple has finally rolled out the world’s most popular media store in our great neighbor to the south, Mexico. At last, access to the iTunes Store blankets North America, from Tapachula, Chiapas to Ellesmere Island.

Macworld.com - QuickBooks maker Intuit on Tuesday announced the release of GoPayment, a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch designed to help businesses process credit card payments.

Macworld.com - Workamajig has updated the iPhone client for access to Workamajig Project Management Software to Version 10.0.2.7.

AP - Julie Powell says she wasn't thinking book or movie deal when she began blogging her recipe-by-recipe adventure through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking.'

AP - Chances are, your blog is not going to land you a book or movie deal like Julie Powell or make you a superstar like Perez Hilton.

PC World - Microsoft Tuesday released software that uses virtualization to allow people to run applications in Windows 7 as if they are running in XP, making it easier for applications written for older versions of the OS to run on Windows 7.

Reuters - DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Tuesday they were pleased the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued an initial office action rejecting TiVo Inc's software claims as invalid.

AP - Electronic books are often mentioned in the same breath as Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle digital reader. Now e-book rival Sony Corp. is determined to recapture consumers' attention with a smaller reader that's also $100 cheaper.

AP - Lower revenue from packaged video games amid a seasonal slump for the industry gave Electronic Arts Inc. a larger net loss in its fiscal first quarter. But investors cheered as its adjusted results soundly surpassed expectations.

AP - Microsoft will hire at least 400 workers from Yahoo as part of the companies' proposed Internet search partnership.

NewsFactor - INQ Mobile has unveiled two new 3G phones that promise to enhance the social-networking capabilities of users participating in popular online services such as Twitter and Facebook. The tweet-capable handsets also feature Skype, media sync, and instant-messaging capabilities.

PC World - INQ Mobile stopped by PC World's offices last week to show off their new Chat 3G and Mini handsets. INQ Mobile is a relatively new mobile company based in the UK and previously only had one phone on their roster, the INQ 1. But this is a company to watch: INQ phones offer smartphone-like features at an inexpensive price point. And, according to Co-Founder Jeff Taylor, the new INQ phones will be available in the US in 2010.

Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc reported better-than-expected results on strong sales of 'The Sims 3' video game and cost-cutting, sending its shares up as high as 4 percent on Tuesday.

NewsFactor - Microsoft on Tuesday released software that allows Windows 7 users to run applications in XP mode. Windows XP Mode Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download.

AFP - The US Marine Corps on Tuesday renewed a ban on Twitter and other social networking sites as the Pentagon weighed a similar prohibition over cybersecurity concerns.

PC Magazine - A rising tide lifts all boats, and one market researcher claims that both AMD and Intel benefited from lower inventories in the PC channel that boosted sales. AMD's CPU market share slipped, however.

Macworld.com - Real Software hopes to make it easier for developers to move to its RealBasic cross-platform development application. On Tuesday, the company released VB Migration Assistant, which helps programs move applications from Visual Basic to RealBasic. Real Software says the migration tool lets developers port code more easily than copying and pasting.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc will get slightly more revenue from Microsoft Corp during the second half of the companies' recently announced 10-year Internet search partnership.

AP - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter Tuesday, and reaffirmed its adjusted guidance for the full fiscal year.

PC World - Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

PC World - Demand for stand-alone portable media players (PMPs) continues--even as the line between mobile phone and music player becomes more and more blurred. And the latest PMPs are packed with features and capabilities that go beyond Apple's core series of iPods.

PC World - Microsoft will pay Yahoo US$50 million a year for three years and will hire at least 400 Yahoo employees as part of the companies' recent search agreement, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Reuters - Pope Benedict has a website, his own YouTube channel and he's on the social networking site Facebook -- now he's about to release his first album.