The US price for the Aspire is about $900. The Air is currently selling for about $1,300. What do you get for the extra cash? Or. What are you missing if you get the less expensive device?

There are any number of tributes to Steve Jobs on the web. Some of them are real. Some of them are scams, like those on Facebook offering free Apple devices.

The week got off to a bad start for RIM. Services in parts of the world were down for 20 hours yesterday only to return and fail again. Engineers are working on the problem.

The Xperia Mini Pro is small and light weight but offers a full 43-key, slide-out keyboard and runs Gingerbread on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 512MB of RAM.

Netflix has changed their tune. DVDs will stay. Qwikster will not. The company will continue with DVD rentals and streaming, all from the same website.

While analysts may not have been “thrilled” by the iPhone 4S, it appears more ordinary types are eager to buy one. Sales for the iPhone 4S have outpaced sales for the iPhone 4 for a similar period.

Customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia may be having service problems. The company is working on the issue.

The S3 weighs less than 3 pounds, has a 13-inch screen, and runs an Intel Core i5 processor. The big difference is the price, US $899, slightly less than either Toshiba’s or Lenovo’s new ultrabooks.

During October 9-11, 2011, O’Reilly Media will offer a live feed to the Android Live conference. The conference is being held in San Francisco, California, and registration is still open.

Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, is honored as the first “geek girl”. She collaborated with mathematician Charles Babbage and wrote a scientific paper, in 1843, anticipating computer software and artificial intelligence.