PC World - Taiwanese DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor, once the largest DRAM maker on the island, plans to call back workers full time and end unpaid leave as the global memory chip glut eases.

AP - James Patterson's latest best seller, 'The Angel Experiment,' is a little different from his usual hits. The novel isn't new; it came out four years ago. Its sales aren't happening at bookstores, but mostly on the Kindle site at Amazon.com.

AP - Think you can do better than Stan Lee?

PC World - A Chinese company that offers a rival suite to Microsoft Office is following industry trends by turning its software into a Web-based service.

PC World - China Mobile's holy grail of handsets is slated for sale next month, a phone that uses both the carrier's own mobile operating system and China's next-generation cellular standard.

Macworld.com - What if you were in a completely new city and needed to meet people that shared your passions? What if you were at a trade show and needed to find people in your similar line of work? What if you wanted to see these people immediately?

NewsFactor - Apple's rumored tablet computer will be like a big iPod Touch, cost between $500 and $700, will probably include 3G and be subsidized by a carrier like AT&T or Verizon, and could sell as many as two million units next year.

PC World - Apple booted another popular app today from its iPhone App Store and it appears it did the right thing.

PC World - The Batman Arkham Asylum demo's out for Xbox 360 owners, it's about 1.54GB, I've pulled it down and had a look, and what can I say, 'I'm Batman.' That's about all I can say, however, since it's over before it's really begun, and what's there to see doesn't add up to enough, frankly.

Macworld.com - On Friday Mad Monkey Studio announced plans to develop games for the iPhone. In and of itself, that may not be a remarkable feat, until you consider that Mad Monkey Studio plans to support the iPhone 3GS exclusively.

Reuters - Malaysia denied on Friday that a proposed Internet filter would be used to police blogs and websites, saying it would be used only to block pornography.

PC World - Some of the world's largest music companies are among the owners of Swedish streaming music service Spotify, with the record labels buying their shares for a pittance, according to financial documents obtained by Computer Sweden.

NewsFactor - Apple hit the reject button again. The company has declined to give yet another iPhone application access to its popular App Store.

AP - An Ohio bus driver who had been fired and reinstated after an earlier accident was on her cell phone when her bus struck and killed a pedestrian in March, according to investigators.

PC World - While much of the Twitterverse is happily back online after a denial of service attack crippled the social messaging site, Blackberry Tweeps are being left behind.

PC World - Remember that old saying the customer is always right? Well, in the future that saying might be 'the customer is always right, unless their iPhone says otherwise.' A patent filed by Apple has been uncovered for a 'customer abuse detection system' that would allow technicians to tell if you've been too hard on Apple devices like your iPhone or iPod.

AFP - Britain's Sunday Times newspaper will be the testing ground for News Corporation's new policy of charging for Internet content, a report said Friday citing industry sources.

PC World - Microsoft released the RTM version of Windows 7 yesterday to the Microsoft technical community. The initial excitement quickly turned to sensational headlines about a 'showstopper' or 'critical' bug that may put a damper on the Windows 7 excitement and cause people and businesses to shun the new operating system as they did Windows Vista. Those headlines are the very definition of FUD (spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt).

PC World - Unless you have been living in a cave or off the grid for the past 24 hours or so, you are probably aware that Twitter experienced a two-hour outage yesterday morning as a result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that overwhelmed its servers.

AFP - A pro-Georgian blogger was the target of cyber attacks that disrupted Twitter and hampered services at Facebook and Livejournal, Internet security company F-Secure said on Friday.

PC World - The fog appears to be lifting on the fabled Apple tablet computer, with fresh 'details' gaining splashy new headlines. Piper Jaffray, financial analyst Gene Munster, appears to be willing to bet the farm that the Apple tablet is real and will cost $600, be available early 2010, and will mint Apple $1.2 billion in revenue next year.

Macworld.com - iPhone app developer Ben Kazez has already taken on the friendly skies with his FlightTrack and FlightTrack Pro flight status updaters. His latest app wants to ensure that you’ve got a place to stay once you’ve arrived at your destination.

PC Magazine - Well, Slacker certainly got our attention with this one: the popular streaming Internet radio service has announced that it is covering the up-front cost of BlackBerry Curves.

AP - Hollywood studios are split over Redbox, the $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company: They could supply it with cheap wholesale discs and ride its massive growth, or starve it in the hopes of preserving higher-priced purchases.

NewsFactor - One individual may have been the target of the distributed denial-of-service attack that crippled a handful of social-networking Web sites, including LiveJournal, Facebook and micro-blogging site Twitter.

Macworld.com - These days, Macworld is much more than just a print magazine, but our print magazine is how we got our start, and our magazine is still read widely by people like you, our devoted readers. And a lot of hard work—by a lot of people—goes into producing that print magazine. Now we're proud to be able to share some of our behind-the-scenes work with you.

NewsFactor - It's official. Microsoft Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing. Just a day later, rumors are rampant about a showstopper bug that could threaten the success of Microsoft's all-important Vista successor.

AP - On at least a dozen recent flights by U.S. jetliners, malfunctioning equipment made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, federal investigators have discovered. A similar breakdown is believed to have played a role in the Air France crash into the Atlantic that killed all 228 people aboard in June.

AP - The country's biggest phone and cable companies have agreed to hand over information about their broadband networks to help the federal government produce a national map showing where high-speed Internet connections are available across the U.S.

Reuters - Telecommunications providers will not have to give the government sensitive revenue and Internet speed data for a program to map broadband use in U.S. homes and bring high-speed Internet service to more people.

Macworld.com - The last week of July and first week of August is always an interesting time in the security world.

Reuters - An expected surge in smart-phone sales could bode well for the iTunes music store's belated entry into Latin America.

InfoWorld - Infoworld today released two special PDF reports in its 'Deep Dive' series: one on Windows 7 and one one enterprise iPhone. InfoWorld, a Web-based publication devoted to emerging technology and hands-on business tech expertise, had previously released a 'Deep Dive' report on next-gen mobile devices and a quick-start guide to Windows 7.

Macworld.com - Ever wanted to have your very own iPhone app without having to go through the trouble of actually creating one? If you’ve got more than $386 lying around, you could be the proud owner of an already-created iPhone application without having to write a single line of code.

PC World - Sprint’s launch of the new Samsung Reclaim, an environmentally friendly smartphone that’s 80-percent recyclable, is getting plenty of media buzz. And while the Reclaim is a step in the right direction, there’s a less impressive statistic you should know about: Just 1 out of 10 mobile phones is recycled.

PC World - This week on the PC World Podcast, join editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Mark Sullivan, and Nick Mediati for a discussion of the hottest recent tech stories.

AP - The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.

PC World - While some parts of the world are enjoying summer, a season usually marked by a lack of major news, this week offered some interesting developments nevertheless.

AFP - Cyber assaults that temporarily derailed the websites Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal were aimed at a pro-Georgian blogger, according to Internet security company F-Secure.

NewsFactor - Sony is turning to a combination of tried-and-true and innovative marketing strategies to boost the appeal of the company's e-book offerings to price-conscious American consumers.