Two big shots with initials, HP and AT&T just announced the iPaq Glisten. It’s a GSM Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphone with an AMOLED display. The Glisten features a unified inbox and comes pre-loaded with the Facebook app for Windows Mobile.

It will cost $299 with a two year contract. Specs include: GSM 3G world phone, 2.5″ AMOLED Display, Windows Mobile 6.5, 3.1 Megapixel Camera, GPS, turn-by-turn navigation and Mobile office.

Amazon has announced a hardware update that will up the Kindle’s battery life by 85%. That’s roughly about 7 days instead of 4. The battery life for sleep mode is unchanged. And you should know that the first Kindle won’t benefit from the power management update.

Users have also been waiting for PDF support for the Kindle and Kindle 2. Now you can copy PDF files via USB and use them. You can also convert PDFs to the Kindle format when sending an email. This PDF support is basic: it’s not easy to zoom, create bookmarks and the PDF files can’t be indexed for search.

Patent infringement suits are very common and more and more they are being fought in courts in East Texas. The judge in the area is known to side with the patent holders and as a result, cases from all over the country are ending up in the rural Texas courts.

The latest such case is being filed by Klausner Technologies. The firm holds patents that have to do with visual voice mail features. Klausner alleges that the Blackberry bold 9700 and other Blackberry handsets infringe on its patents.

Samsung has a line of external hard drives that are aimed at users looking to back up their data called the Story Station. The line uses 3.5-inch HDDS and is currently available in 1TB capacity. Samsung announced a new version of the drive is coming soon with new features.

The new drive has 2TB of storage space and has both eSATA and USB connectivity. The eSATA connectivity allows the drive to operate at 3Gbps transfer speeds. The 2TB of storage is enough for 500,000 MP3s or 560,000 digital photos.

Black Friday is this week and shoppers are already gearing up to storm retail stores early to get the best deals before they sell out. Two GPS from TomTom are being offered at Walmart including the TomTom One 125 SE and the TomTom XL 325 SE.

The units have many of the same features including TomTom Map Share technology, 30-day maps guarantee, Help Me menu and both are ready for optional services like traffic and fuel prices. The two differ in screen size with the 125 SE using a 3.5-inch touchscreen and the 325 SE offering a 4.3-inch touchscreen.

For a long time only Europeans were able to take advantage of subsidized notebooks and netbooks with wireless carriers. The deals are now common in America as well, though the prices for the machines are typically not all that discounted compared to just buying the netbook outright.

LG has been offering its X120 netbook in Korea for a while now and has announced that the little machine is now coming to America. The netbook has a 10.1-inch screen, built-in webcam, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB HDD.

MaxPoint just released a new wireless keyboard, the KeySonic KSK-3200 RF. This guy measures 293.5mm x 28mm x 101mm and uses X-Type membrane technology for super silent key strokes. So you can type like a ninja, silent and deadly. Well, maybe not so deadly, but still silent.

Some other features include 2.4GHz RF that works from up to 10 meters away, a built-in opto-mechanical trackball with two mouse buttons, status LEDs and it runs on two AAA batteries. The KeySonic KSK-3200 RF will cost you about $74.

The BassJump is a portable subwoofer designed for the MacBook, that will turn your MacBook into a sound system. The subwoofer comes with software that combines audio from your MacBook speakers with the low frequency bass coming from the BassJump subwoofer.

The result is a dramatically richer and fuller sound experience. The device is powered by USB, so you wont need any extra cables, adapters or power cords. It will cost you $79.99 and comes packaged in an exclusive neoprene travel case.

Atari has something new to offer gamers. Actually something old. Classic arcade games on their website. Head on over whenever you need to waste time. The site allows you to buy games and also check out new stuff from the Atari Store.

Visitors are treated to six awesome retro games, like Asteroids, Adventure, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander and Yars Revenge. There are even leaderboards to encourage you to get high scores.

If you are the lucky one who gets to cook the Thanksgiving Turkey for the family, here’s an app that should help. Turkey Time for the iPhone hlps you keep track of your cooking time and make sure you get that turkey cooked perfectly. You know, instead of burning it.

Using the turkeys weight and your preferences, the app gives you estimates of the turkeys internal temperature, tells you when to baste, how moist or dry your turkey will be and also how brown it should be. It’s available from the iPhone AppStore for just $2.99.

Buffalo’s DriveStation HD-HXU3 is the first external USB 3.0 drive to hit the U.S. It promises to deliver transfer speeds up to 4.8Gbps and Buffalo has a two-port USB 3.0 PCI Express card to get you going.

There’s no info on price yet on the USB 3.0 PCI Express card (IFC-PCIE2U3), but it will likely be about $60. The drive itself is $200 for 1TB, $250 for 1.5TB, and $400 for 2TB, and it ships with Memeo AutoBackup software for both the Mac or PC.

You might remember the Beocom 2, the phone that’s for Giraffes, but people like it too. In honor of the holiday season, Bang & Olufsen has updated the BeoCom 2 with seven new colors.

Those colors include blue, black, grey, yellow white, bright red, and natural aluminum, which are all great colors for placing one under the Christmas tree. The BeoCom 2 is crafted from a single piece of aluminum. Don’t be surprised if the person on the other end asks you to get closer and actually talk into it.

MSI Korea has dropped their latest all-in-one PC, the WindTop AP1900 onto the unsuspecting Korean market. This one is powered by an Intel Atom N270 processor and will save you some space on your desktop.

Some other features include an 18.5-inch 1366 x 768 UV coated LCD screen with 1,000:1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m2 brightness, an Intel GMA 950 graphics card, 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive, 1.3MP webcam, DVD SuperMulti drive, a 4-in-1 card reader, four USB 2.0 ports and of course WiFi.

It’s the 21st century. Time to stop using post-it notes and leave messages in a more high-tech way. Now you can leave a note to whoever you like by recording a 30 second video message with the press of a button. Think about it. A note written note on the fridge that simply says, “Keep your hands off my Ice Cream” is fine, but it doesn’t have the same impact as a video note saying the same thing, where your tone of voice and scowl make it very clear that your words are to be heeded.

Once you’ve recorded your message, the LED light will flash to alert passers by that there’s a message. They press play and get yelled at via the 1.5-inch OLED display.

Learning another language can be tricky. Luckily for those in South Korea, SAFA has announced the availability of the Magic Study Touch education multimedia device, which should help. The device will help you learn English better and easier than on your own.

The Magic Study Touch comes pre-loaded with a Magic English Game application to practice listening, writing and interpreting over 5,000 English sentences. Comes in 8GB and 16GB models that are priced at $285 and $319.