Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) CEO Michael Dell appeared at the Oracle OpenWorld conference this past week to announce a new 7-inch tablet and said that his company is on track to hit $60 billion in revenues this year. The new tablet appears to run on the Google Android operating system.

Blockbuster has filed for bankruptcy, but they’re not ready to throw in the towel yet. A group of bondholders and hedge funds that is being led by Carl Icahn has signed off on a restructuring deal that will give them controlling stake in the company that took a huge market share hit from Netflix.

The Reddit alien logo is one happy camper right now. Reddit’s traffic has been surging over the last two months. During Digg’s peak, they were hitting 40 million unique visitors per month, but ever since they launched a new design, traffic has been down 26%.

Facebook Software Engineering Director explained why the social network went offline yesterday. He called the mishap “the worst outage we’ve had in over four years.” Facebook went offline around 11:30AM PST yesterday and wasn’t full functional against until about 3PM PST.

Halfbrick, an iPhone development company has released some sales numbers about their game Fruit Ninja. The Fruit Ninja game has sold about 2 million units since it was launched. In the game, people cut fruit with the tip of their finger. Full press release is below:

Earlier this week, Honda held an event in Times Square in New York City using 3-D technology to promote the Honda CR-Z sports hybrid coupe. Honda held the event across five blocks and ran a 3-D CR-Z commercial on the Times Square HD Spectacolor screen (on Broadway between 46th and 47th STreet). Hip hop group N.E.R.D. also performed at the event. About 250,000 people attended the event.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has added some new features to Hotmail.com. In May, Hotmail.com was given a full redesign and in August, Microsoft added push notifications to the service. In the next few weeks, Microsoft will add Facebook chat support, inbox subfolders, video-playing capabilities, package tracking, and LinkedIn integration. Hotmail already supports Hulu and YouTube videos, but soon they will add DailyMotion and Justin.tv support. [Seattle Pi]

Twitter is planning to launch a free analytics dashboard for users and businesses to understand how people are interacting with their tweets. Twitter is planning to launch the analytics dashboard in Q4 of 2010.