http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/43/all 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/hardware/85604/qualcomms-updated-3g-chipset-coming-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. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85604/qualcomms-updated-3g-chipset-coming-thinkpads#comments Hardware Mobile & wireless Networking News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:13 -0500 ITworld staff 85604 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85599/two-approaches-nfc-battle-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. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85599/two-approaches-nfc-battle-french-hearts-and-mobiles#comments Business Development Mobile & wireless Networking Personal tech Security Software News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:04 -0500 ITworld staff 85599 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 http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85542/iphone-owners-demand-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. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85542/iphone-owners-demand-see-apple-source-code#comments Government Hardware Mobile & wireless Networking News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:10:07 -0500 ITworld staff 85542 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85507/japan-south-korea-may-soon-test-td-scdma-networks China Mobile is working with partners in Japan and South Korea to set up trials of TD-SCDMA networks as part of a bid to promote use of the Chinese-developed 3G mobile technology outside China. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85507/japan-south-korea-may-soon-test-td-scdma-networks#comments Mobile & wireless Networking News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:40:00 -0500 ITworld staff 85507 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/networking/85484/china-unicom-3g-growth-seven-times-faster-china-mobile China Unicom's next-generation mobile service won more than 1 million users in its first month, a number that took rival China Mobile seven months to reach with its homegrown 3G standard. http://www.itworld.com/networking/85484/china-unicom-3g-growth-seven-times-faster-china-mobile#comments Mobile & wireless Networking News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:09:50 -0500 ITworld staff 85484 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85461/android-vs-iphone-which-has-more-advanced-users It seems the mobile world is full of silly little battles these days. You've got the AT&T-Verizon ad assault. There's that ever-popular Droid-iPhone rivalry. And then, of course, everyone's favorite Google Phone debate: Is there a Google Phone? If there were one, would it harm other Android phones? Or could it become -- gasp -- the elusive iPhone killer? http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85461/android-vs-iphone-which-has-more-advanced-users#comments Mobile & wireless Networking Personal tech Opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:23 -0500 ITworld staff 85461 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85455/5-best-and-5-worst-features-google-chrome-os Today, Google released the source code for Chrome OS and promised that devices will be shipping in about a year, in time for the 2010 holiday season. Chrome OS will run only on devices specifically manufactured for it and Google is dictating to manufacturers the hardware specifications. For instance, Chrome OS devices will be netbooks, will not include a hard drive, will have only solid state disks, will rely on specified WiFi chipsets/adapters for connectivity and must have full-sized keyboards, says Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85455/5-best-and-5-worst-features-google-chrome-os#comments Hardware Mobile & wireless Networking News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:15 -0500 ITworld staff 85455 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85430/2000-tablet-a-perfect-fit-apple-says-analyst Reports that Apple will introduce a $2,000 tablet next year fit the company's historical pattern of going for the luxury end of the technology market, an analyst agreed today. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85430/2000-tablet-a-perfect-fit-apple-says-analyst#comments Hardware Mobile & wireless Networking News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:56 -0500 ITworld staff 85430 at http://www.itworld.com