HP Slate 500 shows how far the enterprise tablet has come After providing nearly a whole year of sneak peeks, HP has finally made its first Windows 7 Slate available for purchase, the enterprise-aimed Slate 500. The HP Slate 500 is an 8.9″ touchscreen tablet powered by a 1.86GHz Intel Atom (Z 540) processor and running 32-bit Windows 7 Professional.

Skype and Fring Fulminate in Disconnect Drama Fring called Skype “cowards” after the popular Internet calling service cut it off. Skype denied that it had taken that drastic step, maintaining that Fring’s departure was voluntary in the wake of a tussle over terms. iPhone 4 users probably don’t care much about the details surrounding the dispute — they would just like to get their 3G video-calling functionality restored

Jobs has lofty goal for iPhone 4’s FaceTime video chat with open standard Apple CEO Steve Jobs bit off a lot when he vowed to make FaceTime video calling an open industry software standard and said that Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime-connected devices in 2010. Getting an open standard will mean not only talking to standards bodies, but also persuading some industry powerhouses to get behind those standards, including Cisco Systems, Microsoft Corp.