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Microsoft showed off Windows 7 at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital Conference this week. The new operating system has multi-touch capabilities - you can move icons, enlarge photos and fingerpaint with MS paint - or even play the piano!

Now is a good time to buy a Kindle - Amazon has dropped the price about $40. Are they just not in demand? Or is it part of a plan to dominate the e-reader market the way Apple has done with music and the iPod? Analysts say that they've sold about 50,000 units this year, and if they keep on making it slimmer and lowering the price, the Kindle could make Amazon $750 million per year by 2010.

Borders stepped out from under Amazon's shadow and launched borders.com. They're not looking to challenge the online retail behemoth - they are branding themselves as the friend to the brick and mortar bookstore lover. They're hoping this makes them more attractive to anyone looking to buy the company - like Barnes and Noble.

Beijing is now home to the world's largest airport. Just in time to accommodate all of those travelers coming to the city for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

After a successful landing on the planet Mars, the Phoenix spacecraft had a couple of glitches. The robotic arm for digging was trapped under some packing material, and it stopped transmitting signals for a brief period of time. But everything is up and running again, and it's receiving instructions and sending out more pictures.

But not all is well up in space - the International Space Station has a broken toilet. The one for number one. NASA has to send a plumber to fix it - they're hoping to send the parts they need via the space shuttle on it's next trip.