The Wall Street Journal says the new Amazon tablet will arrive “before October” but… all that’s known for certain is that Amazon is holding a press conference on September 28 to make an announcement.

It’s pink, shaped like a pig and lets you play your iPod or iPhone indoors or out. It offers four speakers and an 8-hour battery life while it charges your iPod. Also available are the iPanda, iBoo, and miSoccer.

Malware writers are taking a new tack. They’re accusing recipients of their phishing scam of being spammers and threatening to take them to court if they don’t open the malware-laden attachments.

Facebook has never been about privacy. They really see no need for you to keep anything to yourself. To further their vision, there will be no more pop-up windows asking if you want to share something, everything will be automatically updated for you.

YouTube will now let some users post videos longer than 15 minutes. They’ll also let you convert your videos from 2D to 3D, though for better quality you may want to buy a 3D-capable camera.

ITTIA announced availability of its database for embedded systems and intelligent devices, ITTIA DB SQL, on Android. Android application developers will find the ITTIA DB SQL Java API familiar.

HP paid a bundle to acquire webOS. Now they’re getting ready to kill the project and lay off everyone who worked on the OS. The board may even lay off CEO Leo Apotheker, after less than a year on the job.

Adobe says Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 enable much, much faster rendering than Flash Player 10 and AIR 2. The new versions will be available next month.

NASA has opened the International Space Apps Competition to anyone who would like to build an app to benefit humanity in some way.

The SignDoc Mobile application for iPads and Android Tablets provides secure handwritten e-signature for PDF documents. SignDoc Mobile was designed for tablets and uses a calligraphic algorithm to mimic pen-on-paper signing.