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At Computex 2011 in Taipei last month, there was a significant amount of movement stirring in the MeeGo camp. The fully open source mobile operating system from Intel was being shown off on An Acer Iconia tablet, as well as on notebooks from PC makers Lenovo, Samsung, and Asus.

Earlier in July, an FCC filing from Taiwanese PC maker and netbook pioneer Asus showed that its MeeGo-powered X101 could possibly be coming to the United States

If you've administrated Windows for any length of time, surely Sysinternals is in your toolkit. If not, it should be. I remember first using the software to recover a locked-up Windows NT 4 PC in 1996 (was it called Winternals back then). Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell founded Winternals that year, and Microsoft acquired the company 10 years later.

"Russinovich, Technical Fellow working on the managed cloud OS kernel -- you know this as the Windows Azure Fabric Controller -- is the primary author of these powerful tools", Charles Torre explains in the blog post introducing the video above. "Aaron Margosis, meanwhile, is a Microsoft Consultant and Sysinternals user with expert-level knowledge and experience using Sysinternals tools. They are an important part of his job. Aaron yearned for a book that encapsulates detailed information about all of the Sysinternals tools. Mark agreed and asked Aaron to coauthor it with him--be careful what you ask for!"

Media files like photos, video and music can quickly swallow up gigabytes of drive space. Then there's the issue of viewing or listening to those files on more than one Mac or device. Do you diligently copy the files you need across to your second computer, or create a network shared folder that everyone can access?

A third option -- which has the added benefit of providing you with a fuss-free, attractive user interface for browsing and accessing your media collection -- lies with a tool such as Plex Media Server; it has been updated to version 0.9.3.4.

Sprint & LightSquared on Thursday announced a 15-year agreement to share the responsibility and profits of the LightSquared wholesale 4G LTE network.

Number 3 US wireless network carrier Sprint has repeatedly spoken out against the possible merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, saying it would cause the wireless industry to "regress inexorably toward a 1980's-style duopoly."

Skype has revolutionized the way we communicate, and armed with a headset you can slash your phone costs either by calling fellow Skype users for free or taking advantage of its cheaper call rates to communicate with both landline and mobile phones.

If you've ever needed to record a voice call, you'll have no doubt browsed the Skype Extras shop and discovered a number of paid-for solutions are available. If you can't justify the cost, and your needs are relatively basic, then you can record any Skype voice conversation for free with the aptly titled MP3 Skype Recorder.

It's barely a week since NirSoft owner Nir Sofer released his last creation, CustomExplorer. But the prolific developer is already back with ProcessThreadsView, a powerful low-level system monitoring tool that displays in-depth information on the threads of whatever process you specify.

And we do mean "in-depth". Choose a process and you'll get to see each of its threads, along with their creation time, thread ID, status, number of context switches, base and dynamic priority, window title (if appropriate), class and a whole lot more.

Would you like to take advantage of Google's worldwide network of fast proxy servers, not to mention their coding expertise? Now you can, and for free, just by signing up for a service of theirs.

Two years ago Google released the Page Speed Browser Extensions for Chrome and Firefox. These gave web developers performance analysis on their pages to help them optimize their sites based on a set of best practices developed by Google.

Nielsen has a new study out looking at how Americans use Hulu and Netflix. What I found surprising -- 1 percent of the 12,000 respondents say they use Apple TV or Google TV to watch Hulu. The service isn't supported on either device, last time I checked. So who are these people?

Well, they could be bleeding edge consumers who have hacked the boxes. But I expect for the most part it's erroneous reporting. People don't always know what to answer or what they've got.

Apple may have thought an update released Monday to fix issues with security certificates wasn't a big deal, but security researchers disagree. The flaw is easy to exploit thanks to an update to a publicly available application that can snoop on the data stream of iOS devices.

That application is called SSLSniff. An update to the application also released Monday allows it to now intercept secure communications of unpatched iOS devices.

The hottest Android phone is coming to America, as soon as next month from some carriers. Should you grab one or hold out for iPhone 5 -- or something else? Here are some things you should know that otherwise might be lost in the constant babble from tech blogs and news sites obsessed about Apple's next-gen smartphone.

The Samsung Galaxy S II, or S2, announced in February, features a 4.27-inch Super AMOLED display with 800 x 480 resolution; dual-core Samsung processor; 8-megapixel rear-facing and 2-megapixel front-facing cameras; Android 2.3 (Gingerbread); 1080p video recording; Bluetooth 3.0+HS; and HSPA+ network support, among other features.

A full year after Qualcomm debuted its Augmented Reality (AR) platform for Android, the chipmaker has released an AR software development kit for Apple's iOS.

iOS developers can now freely download Qualcomm's QCAR SDK, and then use Apple's XCode IDE and the Unity3 3d engine to build 3D augmented reality apps for iOS. The QCAR SDK supports iOS4 and iOS5 on the iPhone4, iPad2, and 4th generation iPod touch.

As the law enforcement crackdown against hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continued, British law enforcement on Wednesday announced the apprehension of "Topiary," a 19-year-old man from the Shetland Islands north of Scotland who has served as the spokesperson for the group.

Police were said to still be searching the residence where the individual was apprehended, as well as talking to a 17-year-old in the municipality of Lincolnshire in east central England in connection with the arrested. The person had not been charged or arrested.

This week, the two largest open-source browser developers are drawing more attention to HTML5, and what software developers and web designers can do with it. For Google, it's a delightful HTML5 showcase, while Mozilla will directly engage developers in a one-hour, live briefing. (Before, any commenters cry Apple foul, my measure of "largest" is market share -- there Chrome and Firefox lead Safari on personal computers.)

Mozilla has announced the participants, date and time for its first Ask MDN event, which will take place via Twitter.

Since 2009, Android supported three general screen size categories: small, medium, and large. But the introduction of tablet-specific Android Honeycomb in early 2011 brought support for the extra large screen size category and drove a wedge between Android phones and Android tablets.

You see, Honeycomb was created to specifically take advantage of the increased screen real estate of tablets, and the "extra large" screen category was born. But tablets with 7" screens like the original Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Dell Streak 7, and the Archos Home Tablet have awkward screen dimensions which make them fit into the "large" category, but really only when viewed in the landscape orientation. Because of this strange screen quality, 7" tablets didn't even support the version of Android built for tablets.

Google has updated the alpha "Dev" build of Google Chrome to 14.0.835.2. This minor update is notable largely for the amendment of one of its multi-touch features to avoid a conflict with Mac OS X Lion, which released last week.

The latest build basically alters the browser's own multi-touch gesture for moving backwards and forwards through the browser's history to two-finger swipe gestures from its original three-finger swipe. This latter gesture is used by Lion to move between desktops and full-screen apps.