Many of the recent attacks against Adobe’s PDF Reader have used JavaScript triggers. But removing JavaScript from the product would cause other issues.

The Skiff Reader offers an 11.5-inch touchscreen with a flexible display, perfect for reading your newspaper. The Hearst publishing company is backing the start-up in hopes of keeping subscribers.

Lenovo’s IdeaCentre A300 offers a Core2 Duo processor, 4GB of DDR3-1066 MHz Ram, and up to 500 GB of hard drive space in a system weighing less than 21 pounds and measuring 18.5mm thick. The A300 is expected to be available in February.

Australians are doing battle with a bug that thinks it’s already 2016. First bank cards were rejected, now text messages from mobile phones are arriving with future dates.

Users are finding their playlists replaced with advertising since MySpace acquired Imeem. Even lists embedded in blogs have been replaced by ads.

The Magic Mouse may indeed be magical in its appetite for power. Users with both Bluetooth keyboards and power-hungry mice are being forced into frequent battery replacements.

RockYou is a provider of third-party apps for social-networking sites. But they’ve been hit with a class-action suit because their programs have such poor security that even third-rate hackers can break it.

While the CrunchPad (Joo Joo) failed to make the price cut, Freescale Semiconductor thinks they can. A reference design is expected to be available for testing next month.

A lot of people forget their phones, leaving them in strange places. Microsoft’s My Phone service is designed to help you lock the phone and find the device. This article includes a 3-minute video.

Spring Design will debut Alex, the dual-screen Google Android-based eReader with integrated web browsing and reading, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Alex offers both a 3.5-inch color browser LCD screen and a 6-inch EPD screen.