* BOSTON - Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of ‘bots that can spy inside your home when you’re away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.

* TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Orderly, pornography-free and safe for children, “meet-me,” an online interactive virtual Tokyo, is Japan’s answer to “Second Life.”

* WASHINGTON (CNN) — Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown University campus.

* SAN MIGUEL, Philippines - It’s Thursday, so 18-year-old Dennis Tiangco is off to a bank to collect his weekly allowance, zapped by his mother — who’s working in Hong Kong — to his electronic wallet: his cell phone.

* SAN FRANCISCO - A thief stole a laptop computer containing unencrypted personal information of 800,000 people who applied for jobs at Gap Inc., the clothing retailer announced Friday.

* TOKYO (AFP) - A research group will be set up in Japan to develop optical technology that will replace the Internet Protocol as the global standard in communications, a report said Sunday.

* (As noted by Wendy below) SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.’s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.

* (It’s not just the UK): FBI’s cybercrime efforts lagging: The growing problem of cybercrimes used by both scofflaws and hostile governments was given the No. 3 priority status by the FBI, but the Washington Post reports that few dollars and agents are assigned to its prevention.

* An online malware measuring tool has unexpectedly rated U.K. PCs as having the lowest level of infection in Europe.