ChristopherMarkSmith

The Last 7 Days in Tech: 10/19/09 – 10/25/09

This will be a new weekly post every Sunday at 11:59PM about the last full week in the tech industry. Everything ranging from software to new company news will be linked here once a week. If you would like add something to the list during the week, email me a link, your name, and a short description of the news (one or two sentences). Make sure that it is relevant, tech related, and happened in the last seven days, and I’ll most likely post it.

The 22nd of October is almost here; will you make the switch to 7?

After a rocky (I’m being nice) rollout of Windows Vista and then the recognition that Vista was flop, Microsoft had no choice other than pulling out all the stops with 7. Because of this lack of consumer confidence in Microsoft, will Windows 7 convince you to finally make the switch from XP?

Notable News: Bloggers to be fined if “freebies” not disclosed

As of today, Bloggers can face up to $11,000 in fines if they don’t fully disclose information about free products and services that they review or try to sell.  The FTC revised their, “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and…

Notable News: Google’s book deal taken down

Straight from San Francisco Business Times, the DOJ has taken down Google’s attempt to scan in thousands of “out-of-print and hard-to-find books” and make them available via there book repository and/or for sale in some places.  Amazon and Microsoft were…