Poor Hannah Montana. The beloved 15-year-old (known in the real world as Miley Cyrus) made headlines this week when her cell phone was hacked—again—revealing pictures she (and someone else) had taken of herself, posing with her belly bared and, in one shot, in a wet t-shirt standing under the spray from a shower.

Gadget mashups aren't limited to sticking a camera in a phone or GPS in an MP3 player. Swann Security has officially achieved the bizarre by combining an LED flashlight with a digital camera.

Say you want to use your fancy new Samsung Instinct on a carrier other than Sprint. It can probably be done... but it's likely to be a pain, and it may brick your phone altogether, as cellular unlocking always runs the risk of making your phone inoperable.

File under: Inevitable.

BlackBerry addicts maybe psychologically chained to their pocket email gadgets... but does that mean they shouldn't be paid for the time the spend working on them?

A glimmer of good news in the wake of the uproar over the news from earlier this month that a judge had ordered YouTube to provide Viacom with the complete history of every video ever viewed on the service, along with the identity of every user who had done the viewing.

84 songs on disc (all master recordings; no cheap covers!). 20 additional, free, downloadable bonus tracks. Rock Band 2 is gonna be huge when it arrives later this year, in both sales and in content.

Whatever you do don't buy a new computer this afternoon:  Intel's long-anticipated new chipset/wireless/CPU combo, formally named Centrino 2 and previously known by the code name "Montevina," officially arrives this evening after nearly a month of delays. Virtually every computer maker will have upgraded models for sale come tomorrow... and big discounts on older machines that are still lingering in the channel.

Despite an embarassing spate of problems getting the phones to actually work right, Apple says the new iPhone 3G is a rousing success: 1 million phones were sold worldwide since Friday. The company notes that the original iPhone took 74 days to hit 1 million in sales.

As an effort to thwart users from purchasing iPhones and illicitly unlocking them for use on other carriers (and to escape paying service fees to AT&T), Apple and AT&T decided that, with the iPhone 3G, phones would have to be activated in the store at the time of purchase.