Overclock Your New and Cheaply Bought HP Touchpad

If you were one of the lucky, or organized, people to get a HP webOS tablets for £89/£99 respectively for the 16 and 32 GB editions. here's your chance to get more put of it with the so-called Uberkernel to 1.5 GHz and even up to 1.9 GHz apparently. This should get rid of any lag on this device. Or perhaps just install one of the many Linux distributions?

New Generation of Smartphones Offers Better Voice Recognition to the Visually Impaired

It seems that after the Samsung Galaxy S II surprised at least me with extremely good voice control for daily operation, Apple´s iPhone is next to make life easier for the Disabled, and everybody who would rather talk than type. Technology is getting there, and as a care manager I can only be happy for the people with visual and other physical impairments that make it difficult to operate devices the traditional way.

Commodore 64 Returning as Windows 7 PC

How could OSNews have missed this? The Commodore 64 is making a comeback and apparently the first batch has already sold out. You can order yours on CommodoreUSA.net at $595/around £365 for a basic model — the same price as the 1982 original, which includes an Intel Atom 1.8 Gigahertz processor, a 160 gigabyte hard drive and 2 gigabytes of memory. The high-end version of the latest Commodore includes a BluRay drive, 4 Gigabytes of memory, WiFi and a 1 TB hard drive for $895.