The iPhone is almost a computer. A netbook is almost a handheld with a keyboard. A touch-screen netbook doesn’t make much more sense than a full-size keyboard attached to an iPhone. So, what does Apple have planned?

Dell’s Latitude E6400 XFR laptop is able to withstand rain, wind gusts up to 70 miles and hour, and temperature extremes according to the specs. It will even withstand being dropped from 3 feet while running.

Conficker, or Downadup, is morfing again. This time the worm is turning itself into a Trojan. With an estimated 10 million machines infected, when the other shoe drops this could be interesting.

Feed Editor Lite 2.8 is a software tool to create, edit and publish RSS feeds. Designed for the Windows OS Feed Editor Lite combines a number of features, including support for various RSS formats, podcasting, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, an XML editor and more.

Writing a successful iPhone app is the new “rags to riches” story. Simon Oliver of east London wrote the Rolando game, in his spare time, and hit it big.

English lacks a neuter gender which, in recent years, has led us to obsess over which word to use. Now the argument has hit Twitter.

Here are five very simple and nearly hands-off ways to recession-proof your life. Lucky for you, between social media and your inbox, you can tweak your incoming doom-and-gloom filter and skip the rest. Anyway you shouldn’t be watching so much TV, it’s bad for you!

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

01 Communique Laboratory Inc. is offering an introductory bundle with its I’m InTouch remote access service, its SecurePC and SecureKEY, and the Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Stick. Combined with high speed wireless broadband access users can surf the Internet or access information on their office or home PC from virtually anywhere.

Back in November a German student had a popular timetable app for the iPhone. Dutch and German transportation companies demanded it be withdrawn. Now an Australian developer has run afoul of NSW’s RailCorp with a similar app.

While Steve Ballmer may declare Windows Mobile the best mobile operating system, techies at Microsoft are buying Androids and iPhones.