With technology changing all the time, consumers are constantly upgrading to the latest and greatest computing products and other electronics. So what do you do with that old monitor or old projection TV that you no longer want? In some states, there is a ban on electronic waste in landfills as laws have been enacted to encourage recycling of “e-waste”.

There’s no question that the hottest tech trend right now are iPads and other tablets. This trend might soon cross over into sports, where NFL teams such as the Dallas Cowboys are looking to abandon their traditional paper playbooks in favor of iPads and other tablets.

One network management vendor estimates that 20% of all U.S. data traffic between the peak hours of 8:00PM to 10:00PM is due to Netflix streaming. The implications for Internet providers are severe, seeing how Netflix is only moving to up its streaming video offering. About 66% of Netflix subscribers now use its steaming service, up from 41% last year. Netflix users now watch more hours of streamed content than hours of DVD rentals and these numbers are continually growing.

U.S. News and World Report just released its list of the 50 Best Careers of 2011 and technology positions account for a good portion of the list. In compiling the occupations for this list, they required that the industry is expected to add jobs at an above-average rate over the next decade and that the jobs provide an above-average median income.

“Macs don’t get viruses.” Until recently, that was one of the biggest selling points when Apple tried to entice consumers to switch from PCs to Macs. The fact that Macs didn’t have to fear viruses, spyware, and malware wasn’t due to an ironclad operating system but, instead, due to the small market share that Macs held in the computing industry. Malware authors didn’t bother targeting Macs simply because there wasn’t much reward.

Last week, RIM announced that they will be releasing their own 7-inch tablet, called the BlackBerry PlayBook. Expected to arrive in early 2011, the PlayBook will weigh less than a pound and will measure less than a centimeter in thickness.

Microsoft has announced a beta version of Internet Explorer 9, set to debut on September 15, 2010, at a launch event in San Francisco. They have hyped their latest release as “beautiful” and claim that “IE9 will change the web forever.”

Developed by research teams at the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science, India recently unveiled a 1,500 rupee touchscreen tablet prototype, equivalent to $35 US dollars. This price encompasses all of the hardware, including the motherboard, processor, 2GB memory, wireless card, display, as well as the software which will be Linux-based.

Following in the footsteps of other larger retailers like McDonalds, Starbucks is now offering free, unlimited Wi-Fi at all of its stores in the United States and Canada. Effective on July 1st, a Starbucks Reward Program membership is no longer required, no username or password is needed, and there is no longer a 2-hour restriction to accessing their AT&T wireless Internet. Free Wi-Fi has long been the top request of Starbucks customers.

Triggered by the popularity of Blackberries, iPhones, Internet-capable gaming systems, and most recently, the iPad, there are now more than 10 billion non-PC devices that connect to the Internet. The majority of these devices do not have security software loaded on them, leaving them vulnerable to viruses, spyware, and malware. What might be even scarier is that it puts other devices on the network at risk if an attack is capable of spreading to other nodes.