Wednesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 9:02 AM on October 28, 2009

Wednesday

U.S. disk drive probe hits Japanese tech giants (more from Reuters)
The RIAA likes net neutrality
Comcast still fighting FCC throttling sanction
Microsoft announces the "New Efficiency" in high tech and electronics
MSN Direct Service announcement
Say hello to the new MSN butterfly
Bredolab (trojan) masked as Facebook password reset confirmation
TUAW reports Apple posts DIY info for new Mac memory installation
DailyTech reports Lenovo unveils new notebooks and desktops
The Register reports Asus opens curtain on desktop 'supercomputer'
TechFlash reports Microsoft's 'Signature PCs' show its vision of computing perfection
and Barnes & Noble to sell two Kindle rivals, Que and Nook, in stores
Fudzilla reports Blu-ray players may sell as low as $49 on Black Friday
iPods from the future: 5 amazing iPod concepts
C|Net reports Microsoft, MySpace in talks about music
tie-up and the tech behind U2's record-smashing tour
HotHardware's video podcast
BCCHardware podcast #14
TechSpot's giveaway: Win an Acer Aspire One 11.6" netbook
Win an Asus HD 4870 X2 TOP from DriverHeaven
Dealzon's deals: $130 off Asus Eee PC 1008HA, $60 off 22" LG LCD monitor,
$20 off 60GB OCZ Vertex SSD, and $249 off 32" Panasonic LCD TV w/ iPod dock

Software

Description of the platform updates to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions
WindowsITPro reports flawed student version of Windows 7 now fixed
NGOHQ reports Toshiba screws Windows 7 Upgrade Program in EMEA
Microsoft makes final version of Windows compatibility toolset available
Microsoft's SharePoint: The team that makes the donut(s)
Why is Microsoft opening up its Outlook file format now?
Ars Technica reports Psystar's $50 hackintosh tool not all it's cracked up to be
C|Net reports Firefox gains 30 million users in eight weeks
Betanews reports public Firefox 3.6 beta now expected Wednesday, 3.5.4 Tuesday
Firefox 3.5.4 release notes
Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 enters beta
C|Net reports Google releases Android 2.0 SDK and
US-CERT warns about free BlackBerry spyware app
TUAW reports Apple's App Store unofficially breaks 100,000 approved apps

Gaming

Systems and storage

Multimedia

Power, casing, and cooling