Amazon sells out of Kindle

From CNET News.com: Amazon has sold out of its least expensive Kindle, perhaps providing further evidence of the e-reader's popularity or signaling a new device in the offing.

Anyone who has visited the popular e-tailer's site in the past year or so has grown accustomed to being...

Apple's Red Hot iPad Gets Hit With Lawsuit for Overheating

From DailyTech: What good is a book you can't read in sunlight? That's the challenge being posed in a new lawsuit against Apple, that claims that Apple falsely advertised the device as a book replacement, when in reality it overheats and dies in sunlight on hot days.

The heat...

Apple Responds to Legalization of Jailbreaking

From DailyTech: Apple really cares about you. That's why it fought so long and hard to prevent you from jailbreaking your iPhone and running unauthorized apps, or unlocking your SIM card and jumping to another network. In fact, it only tried to brick your unlocked phone because it...

The Zerg Have Landed: StarCraft II is Here

From PC World: Last night, as the clock ticked midnight, after over a decade nervously waiting, PC gamers began snapping up copies of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

Blizzard's sci-fi real-time strategy sequel to 1998's StarCraft went on sale at special midnight openings across the...

Lenovo steps up server bid with new entry-level systems

From InfoWorld: Lenovo announced some new entry-level servers on Tuesday, continuing its effort to become a bigger player in the server market.

The company announced the two-socket ThinkServer RD230 and RD240 rack server, and the ThinkServer TD230 tower server, all of which are...

Google fixes Chrome holes, seeks security reform

From CNET News.com: Just before the Black Hat security conference begins, Google has patched seven secuity holes in its stable version of Chrome and begun an effort to speed up the software industry's response to such vulnerabilities.

Google paid two $1,337 bounties for work that...

Firefox CPU resources issue better but not gone

From CNET News.com: The popular Web browser has had a longstanding CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization issue that--in some cases--overtaxed the CPU, caused noticeable heat issues in small laptops.

I wrote about this last November after I had been grappling with this issue for...

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