Kapersky Labs purchased a brand new Windows XP netbook for testing only to discover it came with “pre-installed” malware.

The date has finally been set, Saturday, June 6, for release of the Palm Pre. Palm is offering a $100 mail-in rebate to further tempt people.

Wolfram Alpha has launched. And for the geeky kid in all of us, it includes Easter eggs.

Readers and writers may want to celebrate. Scribd has opened a beta version of the Scribd Store allowing people to purchase digital texts from independent publishers and authors.

Netbooks, in many ways, are more like mobile phones than desktop computers. So it seems natural for a phone operating system should run on a netbook. Doesn’t it?

It’s small, light-weight, and downright cheap at $200. It uses biodegradable materials and runs Linux. The downside? It has a 400 Mhz MIPS processor.

Okay, it’s Friday, we needed something different. So, how about a mini-mini-car? At 39 inches tall and 26 inches wide it’s street legal. Then there’s the Croc Car, named after those rubber clogs, that gets 100 miles per gallon and floats.

Google was down for 2 hours yesterday, but you may have noticed that as they re-routed traffic to a site unable to handle the flood. Still, the chart is impressive.

Saying they pose a fire hazard, HP is recalling some 70,000 lithium-ion batteries used in laptops sold between August 2007 and March 2008.

The Kindle Publishing for Blogs Beta will allow Kindle users to subscribe to selected blogs. It also lets bloggers offer their sites to subscribers, for a price to be set by Amazon. No “free” blogs will be offered.