Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.
Qualcomm's updated 3G chipset coming to ThinkPads
Lenovo will offer Qualcomm's latest Gobi multimode 3G (third-generation) mobile data chipset on ThinkPad laptops, allowing users to connect to the world's two major types of 3G networks and use assisted GPS for location-based services.
Two approaches to NFC battle for French hearts and mobiles
Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals.
Latest unsubstantiated Apple Tablet rumor contradicts previous unsubstantiated rumors
Fervent believers in the previous unsubstantiated rumors were thrown into a tizzy by the latest changes in this made-up vapor-tale.
iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code
iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show.
Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
Two approaches to NFC battle for French hearts and mobiles
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