As you may already know, several state laws forbid the use of cell phones while driving. Well, watch out pedestrians, because legislation is right around the corner to ban the use of iPods, BlackBerrys, and cell phones while crossing the street in major cities in the United States. Check out the news story: "N.Y. lawmaker hopes to ban iPod use in crosswalks."

A new image file processing-related flaw has been reported in Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. This can potentially be exploited to compromise a vulnerable device.

I have an absolutely no-frills MP3 player from Creative Media, and I'm considering stepping up to the iPod Nano. I don't need to carry around over a zillion songs. Other suggestions?

When Steve Jobs announced the iPod Touch a couple of weeks ago, people quickly dubbed it the "iPhone with the phone." After all, it has the same great look of the iPhone and features the new iPod UI, WiFi and the Safari browser that makes everyone say, "Wow!"

With today's iPod announcement from Apple, everybody and their brother is preparing to sell their old iPods on eBay so they can pick up a new iPod Touch. Of course, one of the "features" of the 5G and 5.5G iPods is that they are super easy to scratch (leave it to Apple to make putting scratches on your iPod easier than on a competitor's MP3 player).

The latest "iPod killer" is about to hit the market in the form of Toshiba's Gigabeat S Series Portable Media Center. Besides a nice display and some Xbox 360 integration, this little unit powered by Windows Media Player does not really have anything that leaps out to make it a serious iPod competitor. Although this looks like a solid piece of technology, if Microsoft and its partners really want to compete with Apple in the personal media player market - and they obviously do - then they are going to have to do better. They need to make a product that has WOW features that go beyond the iPod-iTunes combo and they need to beat Apple on price.

Do you spend part of your workday blogging, communicating on IM, listening to your iPod, or taking pictures with your camera phone? If so, here's a news article that you don't want to miss: "Time to crack down on tech at work?"

Thanks to member twilasue for sending me a link to a recent news story about the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) accusing U.S. President George Bush of stealing music and downloading it on his iPod. TechRepublic's news channel features this blog entry on Gizmodo: "Prez a Music Thief, According to RIAA."

Cracking Open Hasbro's R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid John Lee cracks open this surprisingly functional toy robot to make darn sure that Kenny Baker isn't trapped in there.

Language and technology have never been the most steadfast of bedfellows. To most tech-heads, proper syntax has more to do with debugging code than subject-verb agreement, which is probably why technology products create some of the most infuriating cases of grammar confusion found in the English language.