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Cult of Android: Spreadsheets leaked by an anonymous source at Amazon report that the retailer has been selling Kindle Fire tablets at an astonishing pace. Users are putting in pre-orders for 2,000 of the tablets per hour, 5,000 per day, for a total of 250,000 since the device was announced. At that pace, Amazon will […]

Bloomberg: A new video posted to Youtube claims that the hacktivist group Anonymous will erase the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) “from the Internet” on Oct. 10. The two-minute video expresses support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but it doesn’t make clear whether the group plans to shut down the exchange itself or just […]

DigiTimes: Unnamed sources say that Taiwanese suppliers are ramping up to produce ultrabooks for HP and Dell. Quanta Computer will begin producing ultrabooks for HP before the end of the year, and Wistron will design a Dell tablet that will debut at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Championed by Intel, ultrabooks are thin, lightweight […]

Reuters: Less than a day after Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S, Samsung announced that it will file legal challenges in France, Italy and other countries in an attempt to ban sales of the new smartphone. The move is just the latest development in a heated international patent and trademark dispute between the two leading smartphone […]

Computerworld: At Tuesday’s event, Apple surprised nearly everyone by rolling out a new version of the iPhone 4, instead of an all-new iPhone 5. The iPhone 4S will become available October 14, with pre-orders beginning October 7. Prices (with a new contract) run $199 for the 16GB version, $299 for the 32GB version and $399 […]

Economic Times: UK-based Datawind says that it will begin selling the world’s cheapest tablet PC in India in December. The Android-based device will feature Wi-Fi connectivity, 256 MB of RAM, a 2GB SD memory card, a 32 GB expandable memory slot and two USB ports. It will cost Rs 1,750 or about $35. “We wanted […]

Reuters: Apple has formally rejected Samsung’s offer to settle their ongoing Australian patent dispute out of court. Samsung offered to remove two of the features which Apple said violated its patents, leaving just one disputed patent. Apple refused to agree. “The main reason we are here is to prevent the launch (of the Galaxy tablet) […]

LA Times: Today in Cupertino, Apple will hold a media event where it is expected to unveil one or more new versions of the iPhone. Rumors about the iPhone 5 have been swirling for weeks. The event begins at 10 am Pacific time. Click the link above to read the LA Times‘ live tweets from […]

GigaOm: Yet another large technology company has purchased a storage vendor. This time open source software vendor Red Hat has bought Gluster for $136 million in cash. Gluster sells open source scale-out storage solutions. Red Hat says that it will continue to sell Gluster’s current products as well as integrating its technology into Red Hat […]

PCMag: Six Facebook users from Illinois, Hawaii, Virginia and New Jersey have filed a lawsuit against the social networking site in California district court. They allege that Facebook violated federal wiretap and electronic communications laws, and they’re asking for monetary damages and a court order that would prevent the company from tracking users after they’ve […]

Fox News: Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its extremely popular Hotmail email service, and it includes several tools designed to help users clean up “gray” mail. “75 percent of email identified as spam by our customers actually turns out to be unwanted gray mail that they receive as a result of having […]

Cnet: NetApplications has released its September 2011 browser usage statistics for both desktop and mobile markets. On the desktop side, Microsoft Internet Explorer retained first place, but fell from 55.3 percent to 54.4 percent of the market. Number two Firefox also slipped from 22.6 percent to 22.5 percent. However, Google’s Chrome rose from 15.5 percent […]