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Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, the book is made up of a range of sensory appearances. But you also expect the book has its own independent existence behind those appearances. So when you put the book down on the coffee table and walk into the kitchen, or leave your house to go to work, you expect the book still looks, feels, and smells just as it did when you were holding it....

Here I was, browsing through Twitter tonight, blatantly ignoring the Super Bowl. I saw tweets about people rewinding things via their Tivo, tweets about people using Mac Mini computers to record and play back things at will. I even saw a wealth of people talking about browsing content on their Roku boxes at halftime. What I didn’t see, not even once, was anyone talking about a Google TV. I have to admit that this was a pretty huge disappointment for me....

The photo accompanying this article has nothing to do with the actual written content. Sort of. It’s a photo that I came across on Flickr, taken byBen Fredericson, and being a sucker for bokeh I saved it on my computer. The photo was posted on Flickr under a Creative Commons license, allowing others to use it pretty much any way they want to, as long as they credited the photographer....

The Web has been rampant with stories of malware making its way into the Android Market. From infected Angry Birds add-on apps to malware which canevadeanti-virus detection. This isn’t the only problem that has been plaguing Android’s Market, withpiratede-books making their way into the store and onto users Android tablets and phones. A quick search in the App Market, and I could have easily loaded a bunch of pirated books onto my Android phone, including the entire Song of Ice and Fire series, which inspired the HBO TV show Game of Thrones; the Lord of the Rings series, and the entire Twilight Saga....

Have you ever broken up with someone onFacebook? I’ve seen the pain it causes. The early “Cancel Relationship” that leaves one person stunned and the other with 100 new Likes on their wall. Relationships are hard enough with just two people working them out, but when the whole world can peer in and become involved, Facebook can take its toll on love. See how Facebook affects you and your relationships here:...