Even as smart phones and TV screens get bigger, PCs are steadily shrinking. The latest low-cost laptops, dubbed netbooks because they’re primarily for accessing the Internet, are lighter and cheaper than their bulkier laptop cousins. Consumers are expected to buy 25 million of the minimachines this year, making them the fastest growing computer category.
There are millions of weblogs (blogs for short) online, but many never get read. One reason: blog overload makes it hard to find the good stuff. That changed last week when Google launched a cool new indexing tool that points to the latest buzz on any keyword or topic.