http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless 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