It's All Tech Week in Review: November 6 – November 12

The following is a list of stories that topped the charts at It's All Tech for the past week (November 6, 2011 to November 12, 2011). Top stories this week deal with Apple, Adobe, Google, HP, and Barnes and Noble. 

Other important news events from the last week

  • Firefox 8 was released to the public with Twitter search integration, improvements to tab management, and improvements to privacy settings for third-party add-ons
  • HP is reportedly looking for a possible buyer of its webOS division, which was axed earlier this year. In a conference call, HP CEO Meg Whitman stated that the company does not know exactly what to do with the division at this time, but a decision will be coming in three to four weeks. 
  • Apple updated the Apple Store app for iOS (App Store link) with support for its new self-checkout feature at retail stores
  • Google announced that it will be deprecating the Gmail for BlackBerry native app later this month. The app will not be available for download or supported by Google past November 22, 2011. Google recommends Gmail users use the mobile interface of the email service. 

Popular images from last week

 The new, "seamless" glass cube at Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store in New York was unveiled

Motorola DROID 4 shows up in Verizon Wireless inventory system

Results from last week's poll

Poll Question: Are you looking forward to Modern Warfare 3?

Answer 1: "Yes - it's going to be absolutely amazing!" received 60% of the total amount of votes (3)

Answer 2: "Maybe, but I'm just not sure yet" received 40% of the total amount of votes (2)

Answer 3: "Yes - but I'm not happy about these new assault, support, and specialist" received 0% of the total amount of votes (0)

Answer 4: "No, it's going to be horrible / Battlefield 3 FTW!" received 0% of the total amount of votes (0)

Answer 5: "What's Modern Warfare 3?" received 0% of the total amount of votes (0) 

Total amount of voters: 5

Website news

  • We successfully moved to newer, faster servers this week. 
  • We rolled out a completely redesigned mobile version of It's All Tech this week, based on the Titan back-end. 
  • REMINDER: New poll is coming this evening! Be sure to check It's All Tech then and vote!


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