• Why Apple Won't Clean Up App Store User Reviews

  
  Truth be told, iTunes has been devoid of homemade social features since day one, and that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.

• Google: Goggles Will Reach Other Platforms

  
  Wondering whether Google Goggles will ever hit the iPhone or make its way to the BlackBerry? Here are some answers.
• Facebook Dumps Beacon, Pays $9.5 Million in Suit
• Ratings Scandal Kills More than 1000 iPhone Apps
• Boxee Box Aims for Your TV
• Google's Real-Time Search Ready to Challenge Bing
• Digital Publications May Be A Hard Sell

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• Google Apps Adds Discussion Forums Google Apps is gaining a discussion forums component.
• Hands-On Review of Barnes & Noble's Nook E-Reader Barnes & Noble's E-reader is hardly perfect. But it's the most formidable Kindle competitor to date.
• Cisco Still Open to IBM Partnership Cisco is still open to a partnership with IBM, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday.
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• Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Critical Update for IE Microsoft released six new security bulletins for today's Patch Tuesday, and experts agree that patch for IE in MS09-072 is the most urgent.
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• JooJoo: The CrunchPad Gets Reincarnated It's baa-aack. The Web tablet that lived and died as the CrunchPad is reborn as the 'JooJoo.' Interesting? Yes -- but would you pay $499 for one?
• Microsoft Update Fixes IE, Windows, Office Bugs Today's patch addresses seven critical flaws, including three in Internet Explorer 8, plus vulnerabilities in Windows, Office.
• Chrome Browser Arrives for Mac Google has shipped a prerelease version of its browser for Linux and OS X, but work remains.
• Google Sues Over Work-at-home Schemes UPDATE: Google filed a lawsuit Monday against a U.S. company it alleges runs a work-at-home scam that unnecessarily charges people's credit cards.
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Today in PCW Blogs

• Geek Tech
  802.11ac Standard Will Bring Gigabit Speeds to WiFi The upcoming 802.11ac standard will bring WiFi speeds inline with ethernet, just in time for the end of the world (if you believe in that sort of thing).
• BizFeed
  Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Critical Update for IE Microsoft released six new security bulletins for today's Patch Tuesday, and experts agree that patch for IE in MS09-072 is the most urgent.
• Geek Tech
  Wireless HD Video Standard Finalized - Promises 1080p Support Ever wanted to experience full HD, wirelessly in your own home? The now finalized WHDI specification is making just that a forthcoming reality.
• Today @ PC World
  Digital Publications May Be A Hard Sell Newspaper and magazine publishers pin their hopes on a new digital format targeted at touchscreen-equipped smart phones, e-readers, and tablets. But will readers buy in to the scheme?
• Today @ PC World
  Why Apple Won't Clean Up App Store User Reviews Truth be told, iTunes has been devoid of homemade social features since day one, and that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
• BizFeed
  Chrome Browser Beta Finally Comes for Mac OS X and Linux Google Chrome has been available for Windows for over a year. Now the Web browser beta is available for Mac OS X and Linux as well.
• Geek Tech
  Google To Allow New EtherPad Creation; Will Release EtherPad Source EtherPad users won't be left out in the cold, despite the Google buyout.
• Security Alert
  Microsoft Fixes IE Zero-Day Flaw Today's monthly patch batch closes a previously disclosed critical hole in the browser, along with flaws in Microsoft Office Project and Server 2008.
• BizFeed
  Seagate's Pulsar Drives Bring SSD to Enterprise Primetime Seagate is the first of the established enterprise storage vendors to enter the SSD market with its new Pulsar SSD drives.
• Today @ PC World
  Confirmed: Google Goggles Will Reach Other Platforms Wondering whether Google Goggles will ever hit the iPhone or make its way to the BlackBerry? Here are some answers.
• Today @ PC World
  What the Apple-LaLa Deal Could Mean for Video Streaming Sure, Apple may be planning to offer a subscription-based streaming music service, but I think they should be looking at video. Here's why.
• Today @ PC World
  Samsung's Bada Aims to Bring Apps to All New mobile phone platform is designed to bring iPhone-like apps to cheaper smartphones. So, what's the catch?
• Tech Inciter
  How to Salvage the JooJoo With a smaller screen, smaller price, and by becoming more competitive with e-readers, the CrunchPad could yet find a measure of success.
• Today @ PC World
  Ratings Scandal Kills More than 1000 iPhone Apps Apple learns that developer's highly-rated apps weren't really so well regarded, and pulls them from the App Store.