PC World - The Amazon Kindle can now count itself among devices such as the iPhone being unofficially sold in bustling Chinese bazaars, marking the growing popularity of e-readers in China.

Reuters - The 'cloud' of data that is becoming the heart of the Internet is creating an all-too-real cloud of pollution as Facebook, Apple and others build data centers powered by coal, Greenpeace said in a new report to be released on Tuesday.

PC World - Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”--and services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, and Loopt want you to use your smartphone to answer it.

Reuters - EMI Group Ltd is struggling to reach a deal to license its catalog of recordings, with Sony Corp on the verge of pulling out of discussions with the British music company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

InfoWorld - When the economy is bad, businesses hold off on buying new enterprise apps and instead try to prolong the life of the ones they have. But there's still the significant expense of vendors' support contracts. Third-party support contracts may be the answer to reducing that cost.

PC World - Say what you want about the iPad and its disappointments: Apple's hot new tablet is sold out, indicating strong consumer demand. And even though analysts expect the iPad to eclipse iPhone sales and thus become one of Apple's most popular products, some tech writers still want the iPad to fall on its face. Here are some of the loudest, most recent complaints.

AFP - Some searches on Google's Chinese-language site failed to return results Tuesday from within China, but it was not clear if the site was blocked or if the problems were due to a service glitch.

PC World - Taiwanese companies will show off 'at least 10' devices similar to Apple's upcoming iPad at the Computex electronics show in June, one of the event's organizers said Tuesday.

Reuters - Apple Inc shares shot to a record high on Tuesday, rising about 2 percent after a report the company is developing a new iPhone that would work on Verizon Communications Inc's mobile network.

AFP - A Taiwanese company said Tuesday it had filed a complaint against Apple urging the US to prevent the electronics giant from selling touchscreen products such as the iPhone, iPod and the new iPad.

NewsFactor - Will Apple offer the iPhone through Verizon Wireless? That question is being asked by industry analysts following a report Tuesday that the company is developing a CDMA-based iPhone.

AP - Apple Inc. shares have hit another all-time high now that it appears the iPhone could find a new sales outlet through Verizon Wireless.

Macworld.com - A great era at Apple has finally come to an end, even as another seems set to begin. According to The New York Times, Tony Fadell—the Apple executive widely regarded as the father of the iPod—is officially leaving the company after more than a year of acting as Steve Jobs’s special adviser. The former senior vice president of the iPod Division resigned his executive position in November 2008.

PC World - Apple is like the Disney of technology--always adding a dash of 'magic' to its products. Apple has an established base of dedicated fans of the user experience on its various Mac OS X products, and it has had the Midas touch when it comes to portable devices like the iPod, and the iPhone. However, Apple still needs to come up with a spell that wards off evil spirits.

AFP - An Islamic Sharia court in northern Nigeria on Tuesday permanently banned a local rights group from discussing the country's first amputation for theft on the Internet, an activist said.

AFP - Indian mobile firm Bharti Airtel said Tuesday it sealed a 10.7-billion-dollar deal to buy Kuwait-based Zain's African telecom assets and become the world's fifth-largest wireless company.

Macworld.com - Fuel Collective on Monday released Permute, a new OS X application for converting media files.

PC World - Put the words 'Verizon' and 'iPhone' together, and you're bound to generate excitement. A fresh rumor that the iPhone is coming to Verizon Wireless has raised the hysteria level once again, prompting comments around the blogosphere that AT&T customers will switch in a heartbeat, and Verizon customers are ready to lay down their Blackberries or Droids.

PC Magazine - AOL's MapQuest announced late Monday that its free MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone app now offers turn-by-turn voice navigation, allowing drivers to watch the road, and not the display. The app blurs the line between direction-driven map apps and true 3D navigation software.

PC Magazine - EBay on Tuesday re-launched its classifieds Web site, and introduced two new iPhone apps intended to facilitate selling via eBay and utilizing the revamped classifieds site.

PC Magazine - Thanks to a company called Vitrue, the Facebook social network now has access to a listing of 'hot' and 'essential' iPhone apps, with iPad apps probably arriving in the near future.

Reuters - As Apple Inc gears up for the crush of customers expected for Saturday's iPad launch, employees who staff its retail stores are just as curious about the tablet as the fans who will line up outside.

AP - IBM Corp. said Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to build an improved security system for the agency's computer networks.

Macworld.com - Driving around a strange city without a GPS can be cumbersome—but driving around with a GPS that won’t talk to you can be downright dangerous. Thankfully, MapQuest has just announced that its free MapQuest 4 Mobile navigation app is now capable of providing turn-by-turn directions in the form of voice prompts.

Macworld.com - By my count, app maker Chilli X offers more than a half-dozen variations on clock apps for the iPhone and iPod touch via the App Store. These apps, led by Chilli X’s PhotoFrame, typically turn the entire screen of your mobile device into a picture frame and clock with alarms, a time-and-date display, and other assorted features.

PC Magazine - If you think the employees at Apple's stores have some sort of inside track on the iPad, think again. Apple sales staff say they haven't seen the iPad, either - a practice that dates back to the launch of the iPhone.

AP - Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked because of an internal change Tuesday, the latest troubles in China's heavily censored Internet market.

Reuters - Google Inc said many users in China were blocked from using its search service on Tuesday by a technical glitch that made their search queries appear to be associated with Radio Free Asia, which is blocked by Chinese authorities.

The Working Guy - The world may not yet be completely sold on the iPad — after all, it isn't even on the market yet — but one institution of higher learning already is.

PC World - A new study from BeyondTrust, a software developer focused on solutions for managing privileges in Windows, has some interesting results for organizations that have made the switch to Windows 7. The key finding shows that 90 percent of critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities could be mitigated simply by not allowing standard users to run with administrator privileges.

AP - Novell Inc. never sold ownership rights to Unix computer software code when it allowed another company to take over the servicing of the venerable server operating system used by large corporations, a jury in Utah decided Tuesday.

PC World - Yesterday gave way to a Wall Street Journal report that suggests a new Apple iPhone is coming sometime this summer, and could make its way to Verizon customers. But the report lacked details, mentioning support for a CDMA cellular network and not much else -- specifically, the components that would power a new device, or features that would drive consumers to a new phone.

Macworld.com - Apple released iPhoto 8.1.2 on Tuesday, a minor update for iPhoto '09 users. The 13.6 MB download is mostly a bug fix, with some iPad syncing compatibility thrown in. The update remedies two import issues, including one that occasionally caused iPhoto to quit while connecting to an iPhone 3G. It also resolves a syncing issue that affected iPhoto slideshows with an ampersand in the file name.

Macworld.com - Firemint confirmed on Friday that its award-winning racing title for the iPhone, Real Racing (), is coming to the iPad later this week.

NewsFactor - Google-owned AdMob is offering new data that suggest Android devices are Apple's largest competitor. Not surprisingly, especially given the growing number of devices powered by Android, the open-source platform is gaining ground in the smartphone market.

PC World - A coalition of tech vendors and privacy groups is calling on the U.S. Congress to update a 24-year-old law to better protect users of e-mail, cloud computing services and mobile phones from government surveillance.

Reuters - Google Inc said changes in China's censorship practices were responsible for blocked search queries on Tuesday, reversing its previous contention that the disruption was the result of a technical glitch on its part.

Reuters - Shares of Apple Inc and Verizon Communications Inc rose on Tuesday on signs the iPhone may finally be headed to Verizon Wireless.

PC World - A Google Wave-like enterprise collaboration tool developed by SAP became generally available Tuesday and also gained an official name: StreamWork.

NewsFactor - The future for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system and Java programming language are beginning to crystallize at Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Sun earlier this year. Among other things, Solaris is expected to morph from a formerly free and totally open-source product to one that requires the purchase of a license after an initial 90-day trial, according to media reports.

The Gadget Hound - It's impossible to predict whether Apple will finally announce an iPhone for Verizon Wireless this summer, but it's a pretty safe bet that we'll at least see some kind of next-generation iPhone in the coming months. Let the guessing game begin!

PC World - Intel on Tuesday announced eight-core Nehalem-EX chips, which the company said provide performance jumps that could bring critical infrastructure computing to mainstream servers.

Macworld.com - There’s another Apple software update coming down the pipe, and this one’s for an old favorite. QuickTime 7.6.6 is for users of Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

PC World - Apple's patent karma is balancing as one tech company sues to block the iPad and other multi-touch Apple products from the United States.

PC Magazine - While one in 10 consumers say they will primarily use their iPad as an e-reader, the majority of users are looking to Apple's latest gadget as a secondary 'mobile productivity device,' according to a Tuesday study from PriceGrabber.com.

PC World - Orthodox server designs are receiving a face-lift with Intel's Nehalem-EX processor, with vendors implementing new memory features to boost application performance.

AFP - Yahoo! on Tuesday sidestepped a report that hackers had broken into email accounts of foreign journalists in China.

PC World - Open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to take full advantage of the latest spoils from the heated microprocessor battle between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.

PC World - Crank up the rumor machine, kiddos -- it's déjà vu all over again.

Christopher Null - When it comes to energy hogs in your home, few devices are as harmful to the environment and your utility bill as a big-screen TV. While the move from CRT to flat panel technology has generally meant some power savings, that's ultimately been outweighed by the much larger sizes of these sets. It just doesn't matter if the core technology uses less power if the new set is four times as big.

AFP - India is about to witness an explosion in the spread of personal computers and Internet connectivity, visiting Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot said.

PC World - On Tuesday, a jury in Nevada sided with Novell in its long-running legal dispute with SCO.

AFP - Google's censorship battle with Beijing may cost the US giant more than its stake in the regular Internet in China -- the door may also be slamming shut on its bid to conquer the mobile web market.

PC World - With the Apple iPad launch just days away, third-party developers and peripheral makers are scurrying to get their iPad-friendly wares to market in time. Speed and aggressiveness are essential. The first firms to piggyback on a heavily-hyped device such as the iPad can generate a lot of media buzz, which often translates into strong sales. Here are several companies already making noise:

PC World - Google says that politically motivated malware has been used to spy on Vietnamese computer users and attack activist blogs over the past several months.