Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have developed a system allowing your skin to be used as an input device for electronics. The article includes a 3-minute videos showing how it works.

Most people trust the messages they get via their computers and cyber-criminals regularly take advantage of this trust. That “innocent” message from a friend’s hijacked Facebook account may lead to a breach in corporate security.

The Mariposa botnet, controlling 13 million PCs in 190 countries, was shut down by Spanish police this week. The botnet was used to steal login credentials and record keystrokes.

The Intel Classmate PC is a low-cost notebook, that can be used as a tablet, for school children. It’s rugged, has a 10-inch display, and the battery lasts up to 8.5 hours. But it isn’t the cheapest machine out there.

In 1950, Hot Springs, NM changed the city name to Truth or Consequences and earned enough money to pay for city services for a decade or more. Now Topeka, KS is trying to entice Google into testing broadband there by changing the city’s name.

Netflix has been expanding its offerings. They’re no longer just providing movies via snail-mail on DVDs. Now they’re polling customers to see what kind of interest there would be in streaming movies to the iPhone or iPad.

Germany’s Federal Constitution Court has ruled that current data retention laws were unreasonable. Part of the issue was the lack of security for stored data.

Freescale’s new i.MX508 chip includes an ARM Cortex A8 processor with an E Ink display controller, giving it faster performance at a lower cost than other chips used in e-readers.

If you’ve set a BIOS password on your Lenovo Thinkpad, you’d best have it written down somewhere. Lenovo will not reset the password, even if the hardware is under warranty, due to security concerns.

Let’s say you have a smartphone with the Windows operating system that you’d like to upgrade to the Windows Phone 7 Series OS, current plans say you won’t be able to. Microsoft has mandated a minimum hardware configuration for the new OS.