News portals in China have begun requiring new users to register their true identities before allowing them to post comments. Sina, Netease, Sohu and scores of other websites now require real names and identification numbers.

Having a credit card has its pros and cons. Pros – not needing to bring cash every time, being able to buy things in advance, etc… Cons – drowning in credit card debt due to financial mismanagement, uncontrollable spending, etc…

If you are reading this post, you most probably have a laptop. If not, you are probably on a desktop or renting out a PC in an internet cafe.

At less than half an inch thick and just weighing 1.5 pounds, Sony Vaio X is certainly could be one of the thinnest ultra-portable notebooks out there. It also has a carbon fiber exterior that should make it more durable than its competitors.

ASSEMBLY is the largest combined demo and computer festival in the demoscene calendar, held in Helsinki, Finland.

Are you a weird person? Dremel Multi-what … tool kit? Well, if you are and you want to know more about weird gadgets, then this one is for you.

The video-sharing website is in discussions with major studios about a potential deal, which would offer users the chance to stream movies for a rental fee of around $3.99.

Sony Ericsson officially unveiled on Wednesday their new smart phone, the Xperia X2. The Xperia X2 will be one of the first phones to run on Windows Mobile 6.5, bringing new features such as Flash support in Internet Explorer Mobile and Microsoft’s app store, and the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Finland’s largest cellphone company, Nokia, has announced more phones at Nokia World Conference in Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. They also announced their partnership with Facebook with their new “Lifecasting” offering that will integrate Facebook with its phones.

The BrainPort is a device that takes information gathered by a tiny camera in a pair of glasses and sends it to a lollipop electrode array that sits on your tongue, where the brain’s visual cortex will get to work.

A small group of venture capital funds have agreed with eBay to acquire a majority stake in Skype, Josh Silverman, President of Skype, announced today (September 1).