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Wondering if your phone or tablet will get the Android 4.0 upgrade? Here's an exhaustive and evolving list of everything we know about Ice Cream Sandwich, broken down by device.

Wondering if your phone will get the Android 2.3 upgrade? Here's an exhaustive and evolving list of everything we know about Gingerbread, broken down by device.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is about to release iOS 5 -- the release date is today. In fact, by the time you read this, it may already be released. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get ready.

Let's talk iPhone. Specifically, about the iPhone 5 release date. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fanbois everywhere have been waiting for this moment, with baited wallets. However, it looks like rumors were wrong about a cheaper iPhone 4S being announced at the same time. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers read the rumor runes. Not to mention: Join with Nile Rodgers and Roseanne Barr on Friday to send a simple, yet powerful message...

Apple's revamped iPad, the iPad 2, is certainly an improvement over the original iPad. But when compared head to head against the Motorola Xoom, the Xoom still wins. Here's why.

What's new in Android Gingerbread, and what'll it mean for you? Here are answers to all of your most pressing questions.

Analysis: Apple's iPad 2 matches the competition in terms of hardware basics, but it lags behind in features, flexibility, and customization potential.

How YOU doin'? It's IT Blogwatch, in which Microsoft promises never to kill your PC, oh no, no way, not at all, next question? Not to mention geek wallets...

Eric Lai reports it for us:

Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that it plans to overhaul its antipiracy technology in Windows Vista, a move it hopes will avoid the problems associated similar efforts in Windows XP and plug a longtime gap ...

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Analysis: Apple's new iPhone 4S catches up with the rest of the smartphone market, but it doesn't do much to surge past the status quo.

By default, Android's Honeycomb browser loads mobile versions of Web sites instead of the full desktop versions. It's all because of the browser's "user agent" setting -- and it isn't hard to fix.

My boss just said we're moving to Macs. I don't know if he was serious, but it might really happen -- he's a bona-fide, born-again Mac zealot, after decades of using real computers (he even had his own, successful Windows-centric newsletter).

I joked that I'll switch to a Mac after they pry the PC from my cold, stiff fingers. In reality, I'll just go along with the program and lose about 30% in productivity.

The conventional wisdom, that Mac's OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong. In fact, despite much belief to the contrary, Vista is a superior operating system. Here are five reasons why.

Scot Finnie admits that his ranking of Operating Systems in his visual tour of Vista is subjective, but still he could fill in a few more details for us about the criteria he has in mind. Is it the color of the desktop that leads him to prefer Mac OS X to Vista? Is the configurability of the networking protocols that leads him to prefer NeXT to BeOS?

Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) shipped a beta Chrome browser app for the Android OS. Well, for version 4.0, at least. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers review and analyze. Not to mention: Why pilots sometimes go-around instead of landing...

The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out today, and if you're looking to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying Microsoft Office --- you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and not lose out on many features. I've got details and screenshots in my blog.