While the swine flu may actually be less deadly than other strains, the spam wave it’s generated could deliver Trojans and other malware to your computer.

PeeWee PC has introduced a splash-resistant tablet PC for kids. With a 10-inch touch-screen, a 1.6 GHz Atom processor, and up to 2 GB of RAM for only $600, even adults might like this one.

Apple currently has nothing available in size beteen the iPhone and a notebook. Are they now thinking of introducing a device about the size of a Kindle?

Amazon is buying Lexcycle, maker of the Stanza reader for the iPhone and iPod touch. Some analysts feel this is a move towards preventing competition from Apple.

The information people put in their on-line profiles is astonishing. Marketers no longer have to interview people to get their data, sites such as Facebook offer far more information to help them target you.

Samsung’s NC20 is somewhere between a netbook and an ultralight notebook with a 12-inch display, long battery life, and low price despite the gigabyte of RAM and VIA Nano U2250CPU processor.

For those tired of hosting processor and memory intensive anti-malware programs locally, Panda is moving to centralize this filtering and updating routine into the Internet cloud. Windows users can download and install a small pop-up dashboard.

This month, let’s look at 10 applications that complement Twitter, enhancing its capacity to help you grow and operate your company. Thanks to Twitter’s freely available API, there are piles upon piles of applications out there that integrate with it. Here are the ones Jorge Sosa found most intriguing.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Apparently the Mormon crickets in Nevada don’t care for Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. To combat the yearly onslaught, residents of Tuscarora, Nevada are plugging in their stereos and cranking up the volume.

Scientists have discovered a way to mine the internet chatter for trends – in this case detection of the swine flu epidemic – before they become obvious.