- Kindle Update Boosts Battery Life, Adds PDF Support
- PC World News - November 24, 2009
- Amazon has given its Kindle a software update that it says boosts battery life and now allows people to read PDFs on their Kindles.
- Chrome OS security: 'Sandboxing' and auto updates
- CNET News - November 23, 2009
- Google operating system will feature many of the same security features as the Chrome browser, including "sandboxing" of applications, auto updating, and antiphishing.
- Windows 8 in 2012?
- PC World News - November 23, 2009
- Microsoft appears to be on track to update Windows every three years.
- Mac OS X 10.6.2 Hack Gets Atom Support Back
- PC World News - November 20, 2009
- The OS X 10.6.2 update dropped support for the hackintosh-friendly Intel Atom processor. Just two days after the update was released, it was hacked to allow the chip to be used once again.
- Got Extra USB Drives? Updated Pogoplug Puts Them to Use
- PC World News - November 20, 2009
- $129 hardware device turns USB hard drives into an Internet storage cloud for multimedia and data.
- Twitter now asks, 'What's happening?'
- CNET News - November 19, 2009
- Company announces that the familiar "What are you doing?" is being replaced with a new question atop the status update box.
- FCC discusses barriers to national broadband plan
- CNET News - November 18, 2009
- The FCC held a hearing Wednesday to update the five commissioners on the barriers that exist in formulating a new national broadband policy plan.
- PS3 Firmware 3.10 Released, Adds Facebook Support
- PC World News - November 18, 2009
- Sony releases new PS3 firmware version, adds ability to update Facebook news feed with game trophy, event, and purchase information.
- Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone imports My Maps
- CNET News - November 17, 2009
- An update to Google Earth for iPhone lets you plot your saved My Maps from Google.com onto Google Earth.
- Google Updates Google Earth App for iPhone
- PC World News - November 17, 2009
- Google is still offering iPhone apps, but the past year has been a stormy one for the Google-Apple relationship.
- 360 Facebook and Twitter Today, PS3 Integration Incoming
- PC World News - November 17, 2009
- Microsoft Xbox 360 Facebook and Twitter functionality launches today, while Sony counters with promise of integration in forthcoming PS3 firmware update.
- Firefox-syncing Weave updates to beta
- CNET News - November 16, 2009
- Mozilla's homegrown tool for synchronizing Firefox across computers and devices graduates to beta and introduces incremental syncing and a more streamlined, less obtrusive experience.
- Office 2010 beta available for developers
- CNET News - November 16, 2009
- The updated test version is now available to members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programs.
- Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers
- CNET News - November 16, 2009
- At the SC09 conference, Microsoft releases an updated version of Windows Server for high-performance computers as well as a compute cluster version of its Excel spreadsheet.
- Palm Updates WebOS -- Without iTunes Sync
- PC World News - November 16, 2009
- The new WebOS 1.3.1 addresses unspecified security issues and some application tweaks.