World Tech Update: Kindle, Robots, and Windows 7

By PC World Staff May 9, 2009 9:00 AM

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In this week’s show, Amazon intros a new, larger Kindle, the Microsoft Imagine Cup declares a U.S. champion, Windows 7 release candidate becomes publicly available, Steve Ballmer gives Stanford students a pep talk, a robot mows the lawn, a computer snaps together like Legos, and robots battle it out in Tokyo.

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