Week in review: November 18, 2011

A quick recap of some Hardware 2.0 highlights from the past week that you might have missed.

• Test suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem
  Software or configurational issue to blame, not hardware.
• iTunes Match - Legalizing your dodgy music collection has never been easier
  iTunes Match is cool, but is it twenty-five bucks a year cool?
• iPhone owners might want to avoid iOS 5.0.1 update
  If you’ve not yet installed iOS 5.0.1, you might want to give it a miss.
• Did Ballmer just say Windows 8 was coming to phones? No, he didn’t.
  Here’s what he really said.
• Build an ‘Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ PC for under $1,000
  This build would work just as well for Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 too!
• Inside the Kindle Fire processor
  Uncovering the Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 CPU.
• Microsoft slaps lipstick on Windows Update pig
  Don’t be fooled, it’s the same old pig underneath.
• Security researcher creates Windows 8 ‘bootkit’
  Windows 8 bootloader security features bypassed.
• Barnes & Noble challenges Microsoft’s infringement claims with 43-pages of prior art
  Who would have thought it would be Barnes & Noble rising up to defend the Android OS from Microsoft.