Week on the web: Ice Cream Sandwich looks delicious

　　
　　How I learned to stop worrying and love the App Store: Apple's locked-down app store has attracted the ire of Android and free software partisans for its restrictions on user freedom. But app stores can be good for users—so long as they are made more transparent and accountable.
Bitcoin implodes, falls more than 90 percent from June peak: Bitcoin, the world's first peer-to-peer digital currency, has had a wild year. After rising to more than $30 in June, it fell below $3 on Monday. Is the crypto-currency doomed?
Google and Samsung unveil Galaxy Nexus, Android 4 at event: Google and Samsung announced the Galaxy Nexus smartphone at an event in Hong Kong and unveiled Android 4, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, the new version of Google's mobile operating system.
Can AMD survive Bulldozer's disappointing debut?: AMD has bet its next few years of CPU building on the brand-new Bulldozer architecture, but benchmarks of the new chips have been downright disappointing. AMD has been through this before, though; here's how the situation might improve.
Apple and Android, the slow pall bearers to RIM's eventual demise: RIM lost much of its credibility last week with an outage lasting several days, but the company was already in trouble. Long a trusted name in the enterprise, RIM is being left in the dust by the consumerization of IT.
Droid Razr smartphone makes its debut with a host of new services: Motorola has introduced the Droid Razr, a 7.1 millimeter-thick 4G LTE smartphone with 9 hours of battery life, as well as a new workout-monitoring smartphone and a streaming service for the company's phones.
Stunning "ISAM" live tour combines 3D sets, CG visuals, and crazy math: Amon Tobin's multimedia extravaganza "ISAM" is one of the most dizzying live audio-visual concerts that a person can experience, thanks to sophisticated computer imagery and projection.
Under FCC pressure, mobile carriers adopt "bill shock" warnings: The four major US wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with notifications designed to ward off "bill shock"—large, unexpected charges that show up on mobile phone bills.
ARM's new Cortex A7 is tailor-made for Android superphones: ARM's latest CPU, the A7, is the result of ARM's study of how the Android OS utilizes existing ARM chips during normal usage. The result is a CPU that the chipmaker claims will offer double the performance of its predecessor.
A deep-dive tour of Ice Cream Sandwich with Android's chief engineer: Google invited us to its Mountain View campus for hands-on time with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the flagship device on which the new Android OS will launch sometime in November.