The flaw in OpenSSH (Secure Shell) reported to SANS earlier this week appears to be a hoax. After researchers investigated the anonymous claim, they were unconvinced of the tipster’s credibility.

InsideMobile, July 26-27, 2009, at the eBay Conference Center in San Jose, offers smartphone app developers and experts a chance to share their knowledge and experiences.

Not to be outdone by everyone else offering e-readers and tablet thingies, the Techies at Vulture Central, technical side of The Register, have worked up the RegPad. The RegPad promises to get you beer, coffee, or even order pizza while you read.

Amazon may have a head-start with its Kindle readers but, Borders and Barnes & Noble are launching their own readers to compete.

Chrome, a new operating system from Google, will be released this fall. It has the potential to speed performance of that low-end netbook and, since it’s free, actually lower the cost of a new netbook.

Did you know that the digital TV switchover is one of the signs of the Apocalypse? Oh yeah, it’s right there in the Book of Revelation between all that business with the locusts and the star called Wormwood. If there’s one thing we love at Computing Unplugged, it’s a good mock.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

By watching the patents filed by Apple, people are forecasting the features for the next generation of iPhones.

Japanese cellular services are already having difficulty keeping up with demand since streaming video became available to phone users. Now caps and bandwidth management may be extended to cellular services in the U.S.

LaptopComputerGuide.org has created a video to help people find the right portable computer, from simple netbook to gaming machines. This article includes a link to the website and 6-minute video.

In February Sony denied it would ever make a netbook. Now, there’s Vaio W a 1.6GHz Atom powered, ten-inch screened netbook.