Palm is working to steadily improve its Pre and Pixi smartphones with the release of WebOS 1.3.1. The free update weighs in at 126MB and brings with it dozens of tiny tweaks that improve the Palm experience. But if you were waiting for the resurrection of the Palm iTunes sync, you're out of luck: WebOS 1.3.1 does no such thing. Perhaps Palm decided to blink in the back-and-forth with Apple.

Modern Warfare 2 is no longer available in Russia for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners, it seems, despite the game hitting store shelves as scheduled early last week. Noticed by fan site Hellforge on Friday, Russian game site GotPS3 claims Russian officials had threatened to ban the game, prompting retailers to yank copies from store shelves and distributors to shut down the outflow of new stock.

Intel is reported to be gearing up to launch four Arrandale central processing units (CPU) in January of next year, truly pushing 32-nanometer technology into the mainstream.

We first got a glimpse of the Arrandale chips back in September, at Intel's IDF conference. Since then news on the new dual-core chips had been somewhat silent. Thankfully, word has now broke of the chipmaker's plans, courtesy of Chinese newspaper Digitimes, quoting various "notebook players" as its source.

Today's weather report for the Internet: increasing cloudiness with a chance of strong winds (of change). IBM and AT&T both announced new services to compete for a share of the projected $46.4 billion market--a market predicted to grow to over $150 billion over the next 4 years--in the progressively crowded arena of cloud computing.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Amazon should be very flattered. Amazon has more or less defined the market and has a relatively successful model for offering server capacity and storage space from the cloud. Both IBM and AT&T are closely following the Amazon blueprints to duplicate that success.

Samsung on Monday announced the availability of its newest Google Android-powered smartphone, the Galaxy Spica (I5700). Featuring solid specs and a powerful processor, the Galaxy Spica is now headed to Europe, with no U.S. launch in sight yet.

The Samsung Galaxy Spica (I5700) is a follow-up to the company's Android-powered Galaxy (I7500) smartphone. The device features a 3.2-inch (320 by 480 pixel) capacitive touch screen and a (less powerful) 3.2 megapixel camera (5MP on Galaxy) with autofocus, along with a speedy 800MHz processor (versus a 528MHz chip on the Galaxy I7500).

Mac-clone maker Psystar was dealt a deathblow on Saturday after a federal judge said the company infringed on Apple's Mac OS X operating system copyright. A court case will still proceed to trial in order to settle a few other issues, but it's clear that Psystar's days of selling Mac OS X on non-Apple computers are over. That's a big win for Apple, but is it a victory for you?

Has there ever been video or photo coverage of terrorist violence that hasn't seemed somehow detached from it? All our images of Oklahoma City are post-op shots of a cratered nine-story federal building. Videos of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers are generally from distant vantages. The short clips of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold terrifying fellow high school students with Hi-Point 995 carbines and TECH-DC9 semi-automatic pistols played endlessly by cable news channels are from blurred, black and white security cameras, and Harris and Klebold aren't in most of them.

Like it or not, it's coming soon. Black Friday is only days away, and the 2009 edition of Busiest Shopping Day of the Year will boast some impressive bargains. Here are ten things you should know:

Psystar can't catch a break. After spending more than a year in a legal battle with Apple for selling Intel based systems pre-loaded with Mac OS X, the company lost its battle on Friday when a federal judge ruled in favor of Apple.

Apparently the federal government doesn't support companies violating copyright law, EULA restrictions, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- too bad for Psystar.

A federal judge has ruled in Apple's favor in its lawsuit against Mac-clone maker Psystar. Prevailing in the court battle seems like it should be a good thing, but what Apple really gets out of the victory is limited market share potential. Uhm, congratulations?

You've probably seen the CalorieKing books at the grocery checkout line. The company is famous for its extensive cataloging of the nutritional values of thousands of foods. That's why so many dieters refer to their paperbacks to track the calorie, carbohydrate, protein or other values of the foods they have eaten. Or, you can keep the CalorieKing Nutrition and Exercise Manager ($45, 7-day free trial) up on your desktop to do the job for you.

Google is being sued by a Swiss watchdog agency for allegedly failing to take adequate measures to protect privacy. The legal battle in Switzerland is just the latest in a long line of privacy issues with Google and illustrates the challenge of providing as much information as possible without violating privacy concerns.

The debate in Switzerland is over Google's Street View image indexing. Hanspeter Thuer, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) made recommendations to Google to address concerns with Street View images displaying car license plates and people's faces. Google claims it has taken strides to comply with those recommendations, but the FDPIC doesn't feel Google has done enough.