If you get a message purporting to be from “Facebook Security”, look closely at the name. A group has created a fake ID in an attempt to get your credit card data.

The “tricorder” was a popular device on Star Trek with its ability to detect an assortment of bodily ills. Now X Prize is offering $10 million for a working device able to capture “key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 diseases”.

A lot of companies are offering tablets in an attempt to catch the iPad. This article gives a quick look at five reasonably priced Android tablets.

First there was Tamagotchi. Now there’s Hatchi. Hatchi is a retro-looking iPhone app where you feed, clean, play with, and generally look after your pet monster. The app is available on the Apple App Store.

Two new Ultrabook/Tablet Backpacks from Sumo let you carry both a laptop and tablet device, securely, in a single bag. The backpacks will hold a 15-inch MacBook Pro and an iPad in separate compartments.

On January 18, Reddit will protest the PIPA/SOPA legislation by shutting down their usual home page for 12 hours. The site will display a link to House hearings on the bill instead.

Penultimate, a handwriting app for iPad, now lets you post your notebooks and pages to Dropbox and Evernote for easier sharing or synching. Penultimate is available in English and eight other languages, including Japanese, Italian, and German.

The Streak was killed off last year due to lack of sales but it looks like Dell is getting ready to try again with either a Win8 or Android tablet.

People get repetitive motion injuries from using computers. Mice and keyboards are well-known problems. Now it looks like we’re going to be able to add touchscreens to the list of ergonomic issues.

Android, according to Eric Schmidt, is not fragmented, it’s merely “differentiated”. Others say Android, with multiple versions in use, is very fragmented. This article explains what the problem means to users.