Kindle Software Updates, Microsoft Opens PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue

Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.
- Microsoft is attempting to dazzle visitors to the Big Apple with its new PC Lounge, open now in Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship New York City store.
- Amazon just released a software update for Kindle 2 and DX users. (Sorry, gen 1 Kindlers, no update for you.) The chosen e-readers get an advertised 85-percent increase in battery life as well as PDF support.
- The new, more powerful Core i7 iMacs have started shipping, but many users are reporting that the machines are arriving with cracked screens or the inability to boot.
- While we've never met anyone in that apparently real consumer group that desires gadgets encrusted with Swarovski crystals, the gem-studded gadget market shows no signs of slowing. This time, Olympus' Pen E-P1 micro four-thirds camera get bedazzled.





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