No doubt that it's that time. Traffic will be getting worse. Weather will get cooler and wetter. Care to guess what else this means? Electronics and gadgets, games, phones, and all that other stuff you'll get to hear about. It seems like a lot of new cellphones are released in the fall as well. Can't to see what's coming. You can head over to phonescoop.com to catch a glimpse of all the new phones and pda's that are just around the corner.

Digital television, are you going to need a new tv? Get the lowdown on the transition to digital television: www.dtv.gov.

Learn more about the transition to DTV and the government's converter box coupon program: www.dtv2009.gov.

Have you heard all the talk about not be able to watch television if you don't get a digital tv? What is required by the FCC is that all "over the air" television broadcast transmission change over to digital by 2009. What this means is if you don't have a dgital tuner you won't be able to tune in television channels with an antenna. You will either have to buy a digital tuner box or . . . more

Rumors had been floating around for a few days but now it is official. Since the retail stores intend to start doing inventory clearance sales soon, this may be an opportunity to get some good computer bargains for the holidays.

You can get the full story at About.com in Mark Kyrnin's PC Hardware / Reviews Blog.

The FCC has recently passed new regulations allowing consumers to keep their phone number when transferring service to and from Voip and traditional telephone services. Companies will have 48 hours to port your number once they have received the request. This is great news for consumers. The only question is how well the FCC will enforce the new regulation and ho well companies will comply with the new rules.

Supposedly Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. have decided not to work together to build a national network based on wimax. That may not mean they'll individually quit working on a national high speed wireless network, just not together.

T-Mobile has begun offering Voip service with some of it's new pda/smartphones. From what we've read it switches from cell service to Voip service when i's available during a call. I recently overheard some at a restaurant talking about it. They were saying you couldn't really tell when it would switch from the cell service to the Voip service. I know several people who have loaded Skype on their pda phones and make lot's of calls through it. We'll add more about this as we hear updates.

Sony will be getting out the rear projection tv production business. It will be closing it's three RPTV plants and will be focusing it's resources on the emerging LCD and OLED technoligies. Sony's got a new OLED television that is hitting Japan with a production run of about 2000. OLED televisions should slowly begin to be available in the states by the middle or towards the end of 2008. To go along with that don't forget that the CES is coming up in January. There should be some major announcements and all that good stuff.

Vonage has supposedly agreed to settle with AT&T in yet another patent infringement lawsuit. $39 million over five years, that's how much it will cost Vonage this time. It's definitely less than the millions it's paying to Sprint Nextel and and Verizon. The good news for Vonage is it's stock seems to be creeping back up.