Amazon has a huge market and, at $200, the Kindle Fire is priced to take advantage of that market. Even with a release in mid-November, the device may outsell all the other Android Honeycomb tablets on the market, combined, by the end of the year.

People lined up to buy new a iPhone 4S. In some areas the lines have been quite long and demand has exceeded carrier capacity. As usual, if you find an iPhone 4S at an unbelievably low price, beware. There are fakes out there.

The latest version of Ubuntu is now available for download. Along with the new release, Canonical has a new web site for developers and has opened the Ubuntu Software Center where users can buy apps.

Apple has successfully argued its case before The Federal Court of Australia and been granted an interim injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. A date for a final decision has not been set.

It took longer than expected, and longer than anyone was happy about, but service has been restored. Messages sent during the outage were held in queue and will be delivered to users.

For most people, the update apparently works fine. Others are reporting problems upgrading their devices to iOS 5. This page offers some fixes.

PhatWare has released a new version of PhatPad for iPad, a note-taking and collaboration app with handwriting recognition technology. PhatPad supports multiple dictionaries and allows you to import new words.

The BlackBerry outage is now in day three and problems appear to be spreading. What started with a failed updated has snowballed as users overload servers.

Another attack on the Sony PlayStation Network has been thwarted, sort of. While thousands of accounts were compromised, credit card numbers are safe.

Apple has released iOS 5, with lots of new features, as well as an update for OS X 10.7 Lion. You need to apply these updates if you want to access iCloud. This page lists some of the new features, compatible hardware, and some hints on updating.