Information Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú that has created an kingdom comprising telecommunications, retail stores, manufacturing and monetary products and services. On the subject of the battle for the money, Carlos Slim Helú, the world's wealthiest guy, has surged a little more forward in to the lead.

HTC Thunderbolt smartphone., What's this, A different HTC cell phone? I reckon that their tactic will be to make several versions as they possibly can, then pray at least one sticks. Their mobile phones aren't that well-crafted. Fundamentally a specific item, and the retina display can't be outdone, not yet in any case furthermore, it provides WiFi 802.11b/g/n, bluetooth 2.1 EDR, USB 2., DLNA, 3.5mm headphones jack, HTML browser, A-GPS. Thunderbolt Android smartphone also supports 1xEV-DO rev.A, Accelerometer, Compass, MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A, AMR, OGG, MIDI music player and MPEG4, XviD, WMV, 3GP, 3G2 for video player file.

Apple's refusal of Flash support on the iPhone, "could undermine this next chapter of the Web - the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time," say Adobe co-founders, Chuck Geschke and John Warnock.

In today's podcast: Sony's PS3 now turning a profit; Chinese telecom vendors lobby Indian government; and Dell to launch Streak handheld in Europe.

With Apple and Adobe spending money and reputation on a fight neither party looks truly pretty playing in, a third party developer has cleverly found a compromise that lets iPhone users watch its proprietary content on their Apple smartphone.

Pilot fish gets an early evening call from his business's security company: The computer room is sending out a "high thermal event" alarm, and there's no response from the on-call tech.

Facebook's privacy settings are a complicated mess. It's a full-time job just fine-tuning all the controls. But you can solve the problem in under a minute, and continue to enjoy Facebook. Here's how.

Blogger Robert Scoble describes how he solved his Facebook privacy problem: "I changed all my settings to 'as public as possible.'"

Hardware vendors have been holding press events to tout their latest gadgets for as long as there have been gadgets to tout, and those of us who have attended a lot of these tend to go with a rather world-weary attitude. The shindig held by Sprint last night to introduce its new smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G, was no different. Cheerful, friendly PR people?

In today's podcast: SAP to buy Sybase for $5.8 billion; HTC hits Apple with ITC patent suit; and netbooks coming based on dual-core Atoms.

Adobe has unveiled a new weapon in its war with Apple: love. A full-page ad by Adobe in the New York Times today blares in giant type: We love Apple (with a heart instead of the word love). It then lists all the things that it loves about Apple, developers, and technology, and then scathingly slips in the knife.

Adobe and Apple have been engaged in a very open war even since Apple banned Adobe tools to be used to build apps for the iPhone and iPad, and banned Flash from those devices. Steve Jobs says it was done because non-Apple tools could create sub-par apps, and says that Flash drains battery power and slows device performance. Adobe counters that it's all about money, and complains that Apple has become Big Brother.

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Pilot fish is working on solving a problem at a user's desk when the user asks about something unrelated: Is it possible to change a weekly report so it prints out a customer's entire ID number, instead of just the beginning of it? "It was a 14-page customer list report, and it printed only the first four digits out of seven," says fish.

Among the more interesting developments at Synergy: A pay as you go NetScaler app accleration appliance, bare metal implementation of McAfee software that runs alongside the XenClient hypervisor are intriguing developments with interesting repercussions.

This morning's IT Blogwatch talked about Facebook and the growing discontent amongst users: mainly over privacy issues, but also the closed and centralized nature of the system. This seems to be far more than the head-in-the-clouds musings of a bunch of privacy wonks. For an increasing number of innocent internet users, Facebook is the internet; are we in danger of selling them short? Let's take The Long View...

The Atomic Web Browser supports tabs and other features that add power to your Web surfing. It's a little buggy, but worth the $0.99 price for the premium version.

Apple will see Mac sales climb at least 50 percent by 2014 on strength of an enhanced and increasing embrace of the digital home, transforming the company into a $100 billion powerhouse.

Today, Apple is evolving insanely fast from the desk-bound minority PC manufacturer it was into a driving force across every converging industry.

In today's podcast: Microsoft launches Office Web Apps; Mozilla scans other browsers for security problems; and loses its CEO.

This week's Security Levity is a follow-on from last week's. I want to talk about one more spammer trick: how they misuse spam filters, to try to get delivered to the inbox. I have first-hand intelligence confirming what many spam fighters have long-suspected...

Calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts are gathering momentum. Critics cite privacy concerns and plummeting trust in the company and its leader, Mark Zuckerberg. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fight for the right to privacy and portability. Not to mention demonic 'peareidolia'...

Canonical recently announced two new Ubuntu Linux distributions. Is that two too many? Listen. I get it: Ubuntu is an excellent Linux distribution. The latest version, Ubuntu 10.04, is great, and I certainly see why there are several Linux distributions based on Ubuntu such as Kubuntu. But do we really need two new Ubuntu desktops, Unity and Light? Can Canonical do everything that it's already doing while adding more work to its load?

You want to become famous on Internet., A very specific advice from Julia Allison, do a sex video with a truly famous person and than put it online ;-)

But seriously Julia Allison speech about Personal Branding presented for the Learning Annex 2010 is not so much about how to become a Internet celebrity, it’s more about how to get paid for what you love to do.