HP Taiwan has announced that the HP Slate, previously running Windows 7, will be running HP's newly acquired WebOS from Palm.  While it is rumored that the Slate will be released sometime this fall, it is currently unknown what processor the Slate will use, be it Atom or ARM.

via Arstechnica

Hoping to increase the userbase of Microsoft Robotics Studio, Microsoft are now making Robotics Studio 2008 R3 available free of charge for everyone.  The free version contains all the same features of Robotics Studio 2008 R2 Standard.

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"We're number two" might not be the chant everyone's after, but we have a feeling that Google is more than satisfied with that in this case... for now. According to market research firm NPD, Google's Android operating system edged up into second place in the US smartphone market during the first quarter of the year, leaving it still well behind RIM's BlackBerry OS, but marking the first time that it has moved ahead of Apple's iPhone OS. Specifically, NPD found that RIM maintained a strong 36 percent market share for the quarter, with Android coming in at 28 percent, and iPhone OS in third at 21 percent. The growth for Android was attributed largely to strong carrier support -- like Verizon's buy-one-get-one free offer which, incidentally, also helped Verizon maintain a 30 percent smartphone market share, which is just slightly behind AT&T at 32 percent, and ahead of T-Mobile and Sprint at 17 and 15 percent, respectively.

via Engadget