Microsoft’s operating system software has gotten more expensive with each release just as hardware prices have dropped every year. Cheap netbook computers become less cheap when you have to pay extra for the operating system putting vendors in a bind.

No, this isn’t TV broadcast on Twitter, 140 pixels at a time, this is more of a reality program about people using Twitter to be broadcast on TV.

You can buy a Kindle or a Cool-er or another device. This article looks at some of the different readers and provides a link to a chart listing features of a dozen e-readers.

Eucalyptus costs $10 and accesses Project Gutenberg texts, including The Kama Sutra and Lady Chatterly’s Lover both of which have been banned at one time or another.

Proporta announced its most popular products are now available directly through its exclusive US partners, Skooba Design.

01 Communique’s I’m OnCall remote support solution allows help desk personnel connect to customer’s computers via a browser to diagnose and fix problems. I’m OnCall version 1.1 includes support for 64-bit Windows computers.

They aren’t available yet but, Daniel Ionescu of PC World provides a list of features for the Palm Pre, iPhone 3.0, Blackberry Storm 2, and Nokia N97 so you can compare them.

Earlier reports said Microsoft would allow sharing apps purchased through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile e-store, now they say no. However, you can install an app on up to five Windows Mobile 6.5 phones at a time, if they are linked to the same account.

TealOS is a “skin” for existing Palm devices that gives them the look-and-feel of the upcoming Palm Pre device. Fired up by David’s letter and curious about this software she hadn’t heard of, Heather Wardell went looking for TealOS. She expected to take a quick look, think, “Not bad,” and move on. Instead, she bought it five minutes after downloading the trial.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

While Picasso might appreciate the changes Twitter would make to the Mona Lisa, it’s doubtful Leonardo would. And translating the image into Chinese characters for transmission is… interesting.