Stories by Jeff Bertolucci

Can Google+ attract enough users in a year to become more popular in the US than either Twitter or LinkedIn? A new Bloomberg-YouGov survey says yes.

A student PC for just $US35? Apparently so. We first heard about the ultra-low-cost laptop a year ago, when India's Ministry of Human Resource Development unveiled the device as an educational tool for students.

The latest global market-share estimates for smartphones are out. And as we've come to expect from these regular exercises in mobile OS number-crunching, the news is bright for Apple and Google, but a bit bleak for Nokia, Research In Motion (RIM), and Microsoft.

Google Friday unveiled a simplified search interface for Apple iPad and Android 3.1 tablets. The changes, which are being rolling out over the next several days at www.google.com, including a streamlined layout better suited to touchscreen users.

Video-sharing sites may have caught on first with the kiddies, but adults have taken to video services such as YouTube and Vimeo in a big way. More than 70 percent of online adults in the US report watching clips on video-sharing sites, a 5-percent increase from last year, and a sizable 38-percent jump from 5 years ago, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet Project.

No doubt about it, Apple just announced another stellar quarter. The company sold 9.25 million iPads in Q3, up 183 per cent from the same quarter last year. It sold more than 20 million iPhones too, a 142 per cent jump. And Apple's profit more than doubled to $7.31 billion.

The 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report has arrived, and once again the news is bad for Facebook. The world's most popular social network scored the lowest of all the companies measured in the report, which is produced by ACSI LLC and analytics firm ForeSee Results.

URL shortening services that allow you to truncate lengthy Web addresses into shorter links have been around for a while now, but today Google announced g.co, a new URL shortener that links only to official Google products and services.

The tech world loves rumors and spreads them incessantly, thanks to a seemingly endless outpouring of Internet blather about impending tech gadgets and gear.

A collection of classics: From an electronic unicycle to light-saber chopsticks, you've got to see these ... uh ... innovations

The names of two popular Google services, Picasa and Blogger, will soon go away, although the services themselves will remain key components of Google's product family.

Yes, the iPad 3 is coming. But when? Persistent rumors say as early as this fall, perhaps in conjunction with the launch of Apple's next-generation iPhone.

Every analyst, pundit, and curious bystander is pretty much convinced that Apple will debut its next-generation iPhone in August or September. Question is, will Apple introduce one iPhone or two?

Here's your iPhone 5 rumor du jour: Apple's next-generation smartphone may feature a "radical" new design, one vastly different from that of the wildly successful iPhone 4.

Does anyone want MySpace? The fading social network continues its desperate quest to find new investors, but the situation looks bleak.