Weekly Knowledge Dump

This week had big news from Google, Nintendo, RIM and some minor news about Apple’s iPhone 4S.

The iPhone 4S goes on sale after over a million people pre-ordered the device, Google axes a bunch of lesser-known products and Roku adds HBO Go to it’s line up.

Steve Jobs passes away, Microsoft axes the Zune HD and then resurrects it, the IPhone 4S pre-order rush brings down all of the major carriers websites and Google gets cold feet.

Apple announces a media event for next week, Amazon debuts three new Kindles, people STILL don’t know that The Onion is a fake news network and Apple stops selling boxed copies of some software.

Google tries to reinvent the wallet, Facebook pisses people off, the Wall Street Journal tries to get social and HP fires a whole bunch of people.

Microsoft shows off Windows 8, Netflix loses almost 1,000,000 customers and HTC’s President is hopelessly out of touch.

This week in technology: Google gets into the restaurant rating business, Yahoo!’s ex-CEO mouths off, the internet gets dirty and the MPAA makes up some statistics.

The Justice Department wants to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, Netflix loses a major streaming partner, Apple finally starts selling Final Cut Pro Studio again and HP decides they haven’t lost enough money on the TouchPad yet.

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Microsoft shows off a mysterious tablet, HP’s $99 TouchPad sells like hotcakes and Apple can’t keep the MacBook Air in stock.

It was a busy week in the tech world, with Google buying Motorola and HP killing WebOS after dismal sales. This is your five minute guide to the big tech stories of the week.

Fake Apple Stores, a peak at the next version of Android, hidden Facebook video chatting and the UK Government wanting to control social media.

Google and MIcrosoft whine, Sanford Wallace the spam man is back, a big name might purchase Hulu, and the UK is about to legalize copying CDs and DVDs to your own computer.

Oracle finds out that you can’t rewrite history, MG Seigler calls Adrien Chen a douchebag and Twitter gets dirty.

Apple releases new computers and might buy Hulu, Larry Summers calls the Winkilvi assholes and Lodsys tries to go after Rovio.

Facebook gets their own vending machines, Google adds music and books to the Android Market, Spotify finally makes it Stateside and Netflix wants to charge you more for less.