How much stuff do you have sitting on your desk or in your work area? A while back, Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) released data from a poll on personal organization. One statistic found that, “The average desk worker has 36 hours worth of work on their desk and wastes up to 3 hours a week just “looking” for STUFF!” Finding stuff on my messy desk bears out that statistic. Being disorganized is responsible for a lot of wasted time.

Last week a clever, duplicitous fifteen-year-old got Apple to approve an iPhone flashlight app which contained a secret tethering utility. A few days later, Citi told users of its iPhone mobile banking app that it was storing personal information in a manner which might have left it vulnerable to misuse by other apps or hackers.

If reports from Notebook Italia and Liliputing are correct, Samsung could be getting ready to show off a new thin and light notebook at IFA in September. The X125 could be a follow up to the X120 which never saw release in the US.

O2 is investigating why customers who claim to have turned off data roaming have still been charged for internet access whilst abroad, tech news site
Web User reported on Monday.

Clove has pointed to a survey from GfK which highlights a staggering trend of smartphone usage in the UK. Read on for all the details-

The United Arab Emirates government have said that they consider the BlackBerry smartphone to be a security risk with users able to evade the country's police and security forces by using them, with e-mails encrypted and stored on servers in foreign countries – and they are even in fact considering an outright ban on the phones.

3 UK may have landed the best value data plan package, one which would be an ideal complement for the Dell Streak or, with a little DIY, the Apple iPad.

Dell plans to launch a new thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch display and AMD chipset in August. It’s called the Dell Inspiron M101z, and while it’s it’s pretty much the same size as the Dell Inspiron 11z I reviewed earlier this year, the new Inspiron M101z is a completely redesigned machine.

Today’s question is whether you find the idea of netbooks tablets more practical for on the go computing? I can see advantages to both. The tablet would be practical for the solid device meaning no keyboard to manage, however this also seems the downfall to me. Data input without a dedicated keyboard is tedious at best for large amounts of text.

Google’s Android operating system seemingly goes from strength to strength, according to global market research firm Gfk.

A story in Thursday's Computerworld describes how the security expert Thomas Ryan invented the character "Robin Sage" to demonstrate some of the risks of social networking. Ryan "used a few photos to portray the fictional Sage on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as an attractive, somewhat flirty cybergeek, with degrees from MIT and a prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. Then he established connections with some 300 men and women from the U.S. military, intelligence agencies, information security companies and government contractors."

Somehow clients always seem to expect more than we are prepared to deliver. This expectation gap is more the result of a failure to communicate than it is of anything else, and this lack of communication starts at the beginning of a project and extends all the way to the end. This definitely does not have to be the case. It is the project manager’s job to utilize effective and efficient communication to sort out customers needs and to appropriately set customer expectations and team expectations early in the project to ensure the end goals are correct and attainable. If the end goals are blurry or not specified, then they will never be attainable.

With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is starting over from scratch with a deeply innovative new mobile platform that makes Apple's iPhone and Google's Android look tired by comparison. But in its rush to get Windows Phone to market quickly, is Microsoft releasing an unfinished product? And how fast will the software giant fill in the gaps?

Microsoft's profits were up 48% on the same period last year when announced last week, with the success of Windows 7 being the key driving factor.

We’ve seen a lot of cheap Sony Vaio P clones over the last 18 months or so. But one thing most have in common is that they tend to only be available in Asia. You know, unless someone goes through the trouble of shipping them internationally — which is exactly what Shenit.com is doing with the “Pocket Sony Style L80 Mini Laptop.”

Personal time management is about focus. The Pareto Principle—also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’—states that 80% of effort generates 20% of outcomes. The other side of the principle is, 80% of the desired outcome can be generated by 20% of effort. While the 80/20 ratio is somewhat arbitrary, it is emphasizes what can be lost or gained through effort.

Thanks to antitrust action in the United States, the European Union, and elsewhere around the world, Microsoft has had to reevaluate bundling certain features with its dominant Windows products. The first to go were so-called middleware applications like Windows Messenger, the instant messaging (IM) application that was previously bundled with Windows XP
. In the Vista release, Microsoft began getting more aggressive about stripping applications out of Windows and making them available as so-called out of band updates; that is, updates that are delivered outside of the normal OS development schedule. So we saw the first examples of Vista applications, like Windows Mail and Photo Gallery, being replaced by Windows Live branded applications.

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Pogoplug, the makers of a device to publish the content of your USB drive to the Internet, has launched Pogoplug Biz. Biz allows a company the ability to hook up to four external drives to the Internet, providing them with "an extensible cloud storage solution with no monthly fees."

If you're tired of your thighs feeling like they're in a slow cooker, by all means, buy a laptop cooling pad, with or without a USB-powered fan.

Windows/Mac/Linux: TrueCrypt, the smart and secure way to encrypt your data, has shipped a seventh version that can encrypt faster on select Intel hardware, as well as configure your encrypted volumes or drives to automatically mount with specific preferences.

Michael Gartenburg has concluded that the Treo should be included in his Five gadgets that changed the World article, and I tend to agree. A worthy read.

Hey guys, I just managed to get my hands on the Asus EEE PC 1215N an gave it a review on netbooklive.net . As you probably know, the 1215N is a 12 incher which packs some powerful hardware, including a dual-core Atom processor, 2-4 GB of DDR3 memory and latest generation Nvidia ION graphics with Optimus management system.

Apple isn’t the only company which is raking in the money at the moment, with Microsoft also posting up some fine fiscal figures.

I’ve never exactly had a problem running the Firefox web browser on a netbook. But I do tend to disable a few toolbars so that the browser UI doesn’t take up too much screen real estate. When you’re using a 1024 x 600 pixel display, every pixel counts.

* Android Operating System
* Compact easy-to-use design
* Timescape, gather all your communication in one place
* 3G/HSPA connectivity for fast data access
* Customize your home screen
* Download Applications with the Android Market

Are MSI's 12.1-inch netbooks a hair too large for you? Wonder of wonders, there's a smaller version that's practically exactly the same inside.

VoIP operator Skype has shelved plans to charge users for 3G calling, claiming that operator plans to bill by the byte make such charges redundant.

Skype has updated its iPhone application, making it compatible with iOS 4.

Review Sony Ericsson reckoned it was on to a winner with its impressive Xperia X10 handset, which in one swoop helped us to forget the pain of flawed Xperias past. Then it squeezed the formula into the tiny palm-sized X10 Mini – reviewed here – which offered smart functionality in a handbag-sized package.

I have to say I am thoroughly impressed with the new British Airways mobile applications. Of course, I haven’t used them in anger yet, but I am very much looking forward to doing so.

The “Light” edition of the U230 has an 11.6-inch matte display with a 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, while the standard (non Light) version has a 12.1-inch display.

When Asus officially announced plans for its upcoming Eee Pad tablets, the company said there would be a 12 inch tablet running Windows 7 called the Eee Pad EP121, and 10 inch model called the Eee PC EP101 which would run Windows Embedded Compact 7, or the next version of Windows CE.

Steve Litchfied has had a go at Defining the Smartphone and does a pretty good job offering up the options available. The fact is that no-one will probably ever be able to do it…