Want a Droid on the cheap? Let's start a club!
Right now, you have to buy one and sign a two-year contract. Is a Gadget of the Month Club the answer? Or should phone companies be more like clothes stores?

Is Verizon's new early-termination fee anti-consumer?
That $350 fee doubles the current one, but Verizon insists it's justified because of the higher prices of today's phones.

Video: A new workout for the Wii
Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console?

Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry
Flixster's Movies app just isn't up to snuff on BlackBerry.

Mobile: Still waiting to see what sticks
As businesses try to capitalize on the growing mobile software market, open source can offer a way to encourage adoption and build products in the image of the prospective buyer.

Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores
The App Store business model, nearly perfected by Apple, has changed the way software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with CNET's Maggie Reardon and GigaOm's Sebastian Rupley.

EMI to offer instant concert recordings
An initiative called Abbey Road Live will enable concert attendees to buy CDs, DVDs, or flash cards with recordings of the show they just heard.

Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love
The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.

Microsoft launching health tech video show
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu is among the guests in the first episode of the Web video show, which debuts next week.

Astronauts prep for not-so-close encounter with space debris
Space debris had prompted NASA to make plans for the station crew to seek shelter aboard their Soyuz lifeboats, but additional analysis now shows the junk poses no threat to the lab.

Going rogue? Palin bans gadgets, reporters from speech
The former Alaska governor joins a tradition of controversial politicians stoking up more press criticism by attempting to avoid it in the first place.

What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals
EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals?

CNET News Daily Podcast: Skype, eBay move forward
eBay settles with Skype founders, and will sell its controlling interest in the Internet telephony company.

Sorry, kids: No social networking on the Xbox 360
Those children under 18 who are members of Xbox Live won't be able to access Facebook, Twitter, or Last.fm when the Xbox Live update is released later this year.

How low can online scammers go?
In the world of the cynical online phishing scam ploy, is pretending to be a Marine stationed in Afghanistan a new low?

Week in review: Microsoft getting lucky with 7?
Sales and usage of new OS are up, while Intel attracts additional antitrust attention. Also: AT&T has a lawyer for that app ad.

Adobe's Photoshop app comes to Android
Adobe brings the popular Photoshop mobile app to Android phones, but is it as good as the version for iPhones and iPods? We take a look.

Opera Mobile 10 beta browser: First Look video
Even if you don't have a Nokia, Samsung, or Sony Ericsson phone, you can preview the latest Opera Mobile browser for smartphones.

Slow start for the Motorola Droid?
From coast to coast, customers were not lining up to get their hands on the much-hyped smartphone. But Verizon says it doesn't see that as a bad thing.

Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'
When it comes to the tricky balance between providing comprehensive information and freaking people out, Google says it tries to stay on the good side of the "creepy line."

Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Founder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.