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The new T-Mobile G1 wireless phone, announced Tuesday by T-Mobile USA, Google and HTC, generated attention for its use of the open Android platform, but it will be locked to the T-Mobile USA network and it doesn't appear to be heavily focused on business users.

For some users, the new generation of ultraportable notebooks comes close to embodying the Holy Grail for road warriors. Their laptop-like keyboards make them more usable for typing tasks than smart phones, but they are lighter and cheaper than traditional laptops. The original Asus Eee PC, for instance, cost about US$400 and weighed about two pounds when it was introduced last October.

Patent trolls beware: Some of the tech industry's biggest names are banding together to run you out of court.

Mobile phones designed around Google's Android software may not be available until the fourth quarter of this year, and some companies are struggling to even meet that deadline, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing unidentified sources.

Google's eye-catching demonstration of an early Android-enabled mobile phone Wednesday appeared to mimic Apple's iPhone. But Google officials downplayed the notion that they will face off against iPhone in the handset market.

Mac is hacked first at CanSecWest; Toshiba's robot helps control remotes; Boston hosts a robotic competition and Steve Wozniak talks on tech; Intel introduces a new Classmate PC; Mobile Internet Devices use Intel's Atom processor; and AT&T uses Microsoft's Surface computer.

The CTIA Wireless show kicked off in Las Vegas this week with a new Windows Mobile, an iPhone-style handset from Samsung and a surprise announcement of galactic proportions.

On Wednesday, at an environmental conference in the new green federal building in San Francisco, Muni unveiled its connected bus, which it developed along with Cisco Systems.

Forget the Super Bowl. Ignore the presidential primaries. For network geeks, the really big news recently was the cable outages in the Mediterranean, which disrupted Internet connections to Europe and the Middle East. The outages have raised a host of questions about the vulnerability of the Internet and the action plans enterprises should have in place to protect themselves from the consequences. Here are some frequently asked questions -- and the answers.

The first mobile phone to incorporate Google's open-source Android platform will debut at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a source close to British chipmaker ARM Holdings has told Reuters.

A growing set of developers is setting to work making Web browsing on a phone match the experience on a PC.