Taiwanese laptop-maker Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to launch a Windows 7 tablet PC next week at the Computex Taipei electronics show, after showing off a prototype tablet running Google’s Android mobile software early this year.

Flagging messages in Mail is an easy way to mark them for follow-up. But it’s also easy to forget to check your Flagged folder in Mail. MacOSXHints.com reader dushu figured out a way to keep a list of his flagged e-mails visible on his desktop, where they’re hard to miss:

AT&T on Friday made some significant changes to its early termination fee (ETF) policies that affect all of its contractual customers. The new prices–raised for some phones, lowered for others–go into effect for new and upgrading customers on June 1, 2010.

Like the unfortunate person who continually diets but only seems to gain more weight, power-hungry data centers — despite adopting virtualization and power management techniques — only seem to be consuming more energy than ever, to judge from some of the talks at the Uptime Symposium 2010, held this week in New York.