Welcome to this week’s episode in which we explore moves in the tech world that seem suspect in their motivation. Some of these can only be fueled by Crack. Here are this week’s nominees: Courier to hit shelves in 2011? BlackBerry’s ugliest baby Radio Shack too good for Palm? Swashbuckling adventure: Man and iPhone vs. more »

Call it karma or something else, the interesting relationship between Microsoft and Gizmodo continues to yield exclusive looks at the leaked tablet. Microsoft’s Courier was shown by the site in a video and now that video has been sliced to show how users interact with the Courier. The user interface highlights different fingerswipes, tablet functionality more »

Welcome back to InterrupTech. Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry. We cover Microsoft’s leaked Courier tablet PC and Pink phones; Netflix’s plans to be on the Wii, PS3, and everywhere else; and the Intel Developer Forum.

The world of tech is filled of business decisions that could only be fueled by some kind of drug-induced lunacy. This is the column that calls out the companies that might need to hit rehab. Today, we’re looking at you, Palm, Microsoft, Verizon, and Intel.

Maybe you missed it, but there’s a big hubub over a new Microsoft tablet/booklet computer, the Courier. We got together with Randall Bennett and Gary Krakow on TechVi to talk about what Microsoft has to do to have a winner on its hands. By crafting their own hardware to go along with their software, will Microsoft be able to succeed? If Microsoft pairs the Courier with some of its other properties they may have a fighting chance before that Cupertino company inevitably releases its own tablet.

Microsoft let Gizmodo tell the world about their latest prototype Courier, a tablet booklet no one saw coming. After checking to make sure this was not the first of April, I can tell you this looks to be legit: Microsoft has been working on a host of tablets and this one apparently looks the most more »