http://www.itworld.com/opinion xx http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/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. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline#comments Business Government Green IT Legal Mobile & wireless Operating systems Personal tech Security Software Windows Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85605 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85583/third-party-screensavers-return-snow-leopard When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was because 10.6 required 64-bit compatible screensavers, whereas existing screensavers were 32 bit. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85583/third-party-screensavers-return-snow-leopard#comments Operating systems Software Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85583 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85563/welcome-golden-age-vaporware I've been in this business for 357 years, but I can't recall a time when we've had more written about products that do not actually exist. We are truly living in the golden age of vaporware. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85563/welcome-golden-age-vaporware#comments Hardware Personal tech Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:25 -0500 ITworld staff 85563 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/85561/salesforce-chatter-collaboration-tool-or-social-network If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck. That is, unless you're Salesforce.com, and you're talking about its new Chatter application. While observers have looked at features like profiles, status updates, Twitter and Facebook integration as proof that Chatter is an enterprise-grade social network, the company and its executives are taking pains to call it something else -- a "social platform," or, as carefully noted by Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff, a collaboration tool: http://www.itworld.com/software/85561/salesforce-chatter-collaboration-tool-or-social-network#comments Internet Software Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:21 -0500 ITworld staff 85561 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85575/latest-unsubstantiated-apple-tablet-rumor-contradicts-previous-unsubstanti Fervent believers in the previous unsubstantiated rumors were thrown into a tizzy by the latest changes in this made-up vapor-tale. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85575/latest-unsubstantiated-apple-tablet-rumor-contradicts-previous-unsubstanti#comments Mobile & wireless Opinion Apple Apple tablet Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:13 -0500 jfruh 85575 at http://www.itworld.com