18 year old Ben Cook is renowned as the “world’s fastest text messenger”. He was handed his first defeat Tuesday by voice-recognition software that beat his record time on a complicated 27-word message by 66 percent.

The exhibition was sponsored by Nuance Communications Inc., a Burlington, Massachusetts-based company that aims to have its software deployed across several wireless carriers next year.

Read more on MSNBC.

Vista is almost out the door and soon you’ll be able to upgrade or install clean the latest version. But with 6 different flavors of the client OS, which one will be right for you? This eWeek article will help sort it out for you, explain some of the key differences and discuss what’s been deprecated from XP–>Vista.

Opera released a new version of its mobile browser for use on the Palm Treo and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry (hopefully the Windows Mobile version comes out soon).

Not familiar with Opera Mini? It’s free to download and use, your mobile OS needs to support Java which should supported on all recent mobiles the last few years. When surfing with Opera Mini, Web pages are optimized and compressed before being sent to your phone. Here’s a cool simulator that shows you exactly how it operates and will behave on your mobile.

Tuesday, Blizzard Entertainment said it would delay release of “World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade” until January.

Of course this means missing the holiday season, ouch!

In Seattle, T-Mobile users can leverage Wi-Fi now to save on their minutes. It’s a new service called T-Mobile Hotspot @Home. The phone automatically detects Wi-Fi hot spots and seemlessly switches to the wi-fi network from the cellular network.