While most of the additional material covered in the reviews is basically factual stuff that you've already been agonizing over for a week or more, they're all decent reads if you have the time.

• Pogue's preview-review from 1/17 New York Times

• Ed Baig's story in USA Today

• Steven Levy's piece from Newsweek's website

• Walt Mossberg's review from Wall Street Journal and allthingd.com

Of course, if you don't have the time for those, pop over to Chen's superfast big-shot review summary and then, well, get about your business. [All About MacBook Air]

• Pogue's NYT review
• Ed Baig's USA Today review
• Mossy's WSJ review

Vonage this, Vonage that. This weeks big news is that the company is admitting that they have absolutely no idea how to work around the infringed Verizon patents.

Oh how we love irony, Microsoft is bringing in the anti-trust investigators to check out Google and its recent pickup of Web advertiser DoubleClick. I guess MS has enough experience in the field.

Wondering what's what Intel has brewing after Santa Rosa?

Tisk tisk, two of BenQ's execs (Chairman Lee Kun-Yao & President Sheaffer Lee) are being charged with insider trading.

It's official: Google is buying web-advertiser DoubleClick for $3,100,000,000. Man that is a lot of 0's.

PRMTXT is a program that will text your prom-going kid not to drink or do fun stupid things on prom night. Here's a tip, maybe your kid would actually take your advice if you'd talk to him/her instead of having canned text messages do it for you.– Ben Longo

Verizon took back the title of largest US carrier from Cingular/AT&T. Let the war continue!

Nintendo & Opera let their final version of the Wii Browswer out into the wild. And it will be free as long as you pick it up before June 30, when it will skyrocket up to $5.

Looks like Microsoft's dreams of catching up in the Virtualization sector had a slight hiccup today. Both their beta and service pack for Windows Server virtualization have been pushed back.– Ben Longo

Even though Google said how sorry they were about "borrowing" content from Sohu.com, the Chinese company may still seek legal charges.

Maybe all that talk of a Palm buyout was a little premature? The PDA company is seeing strong growth in both Europe and Asia.

28% of US homes now have an HDTV. And check this out, 86% are highly satisfied with them. Apparently they don't read Gizmodo and see what's going to trump their brand new HDTV in a day or two.

AMD lowered their 1Q earnings forecast to $1.225 billion. It seems their little rivalry with Intel is to blame.

So what's better than IM capabilities on your 360? Support for Mpeg4 and H.264 video.

1˚, that's how close MIT researchers came to cooling an object, the size of a coin, to absolute zero with a frickin' laser.– Ben Longo

Sick of how impersonal Google Maps can be? Check out the new My Maps feature. Now you can add your own pictures and stories to your Google Maps.

If you love YouTube, then we suggest you stay away from Thailand, as they have just banned the video-sharing site from the entire country.

EMI's first DRM-free album is already available. You can pick up the self-titled album "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" from the band's site, at 7digital.com– Ben Longo

We already told you who was the at bottom of the "environmentally friendly" barrel. But did you know that Lenovo was rated the Captain Planet of electronics by Greenpeace?

And speaking of Lenovo, they've set up a new division that will focus on a consumer push. Hey, maybe they'll start to doing commercials with dancing kids like Cisco.

Guitar Hero II's Xbox release yesterday was big for two reasons. One, it was the first release on a non-Playstation. And two, the controller is compatible with the PC, so now you can play Frets on Fire with an actual controller.– Ben Longo

Greenpeace ranked Apple dead last in environmental friendliness compared with other major electronics companies. Yet you never hear anything about them trying to reduce packaging waste. Just look at how small their iPod and laptop boxes have become.

Hopefully you didn't just buy a PSP, because Sony just dropped the price to $169.99.

Mexico City will be the latest location to jump on the free Wi-Fi bandwagon. It's not all peaches & cream though—the network will also link up 4,000 surveillance cameras.– Ben Longo

The month of MySpace vulnerabilities kicked off yesterday on April Fools'. As usual they will be showing off a bug a day, this time dealing with the social networking site. Hopefully the group will find something a little more interesting than yesterday's Web-address spoofing.

Microsoft is pumping out a fix for the .ANI bug that recently has been exploited. Most of the attacks involve code that steals your passwords.

And finally Homeland Security wants to control not only your physical life, but your digital one as well. The overreaching department is requesting the "master key" to the DNS root zone, thereby allowing them to spy on the entire Internet.– Ben Longo

Gizmodo discovered why there's still a Wii shortage going on, its the Norwegian Cruise Lines fault. By next month their entire fleet of cruise ships will be fitted with Nintendo's console.

Thanks to a British company Zinwave, London's underground railway system might be getting cellphone coverage sooner than initially predicted.

How many times could Steve Jobs buy every song on the iTunes Music Store? Over 5,000, thanks to new reports that the Apple CEO is now worth $20 billion.– Ben Longo

Sandisk announced a 4GB version of its microSDHC card. Look for it at Verizon Wireless in may for $129.99.

Dell, Sony, & Apple have been added to a lawsuit filed by Washington Research Foundation. The lawsuit is claiming that they infringed on four different patents dealing with wireless data between computers and other devices.

Web advertising company Double Click is talking with potential suiters about a possible sale, one of which is Microsoft. Double Click is reportedly looking for a sale price of $2 billion. – Ben Longo