Toshiba TG01 hands-on
Chris Davies of Slash-Gear got to preview the new TG01. He provides lots of pictures along with the technical information in this review.
Malware infection that began with windshield fliers
This is a new way of spreading malware to computers. Give someone a fake ticket and, when they dispute the ticket via the URL provided, download some malware to their machine. And the anti-virus programs haven’t caught up with this one yet.
India’s $10 Laptop: Neither $10 nor a Laptop
The Sakshat is a 10″x5″ box with a few sockets. There’s no keyboard and no monitor. By the time you get those vital components hooked up, the price is far more than the advertised $10.
13-Inch Notebook a Respite for Thin and Light Wallets
Gateway’s new UC7807u sports an Intel 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU, a 250GB hard drive, and 3GB of memory, all for about $800 US.
Where Are Your Friends and Family? Check Google Maps
It’s getting harder and harder to get lost. This new app from Google allows wireless device users to share their location via Google Maps.
First Look: MSI’s Second Wind Blows Away Its Predecessor
The folks at Wired.com got hold of an early test unit of the MSI Wind U120 and put it through its paces. They provide lots of pretty pictures in this review.
Seagate jams 2TB into single hard drive
Seagate Technology has launched the new Constellation 2.5 inch and Constellation ES 3.5-inch drives to compete with Western Digital’s 2TB drives.
IPhone App-cracking Software Gets Pirated
Now, it seems, pirates are stealing from other pirates. Crackulous, a free application allowing people to break the security on applications from Apple’s App Store, has been “stolen” by someone who is now selling the application for $10.
Resco Brain Games 2009 for Windows Mobile released
Train your brain using these 44 games on your Windows mobile device.
What Google did right
On Saturday, Google killed the Internet — at least for about an hour. Saturday morning, between 9:30a.m. and 10:25a.m. Atlanta time, no matter where you were in the world, if you did a Google search, you’d see the message, “This site may harm your computer” returned for each result.
Given that more than half of all Internet searches are done using Google, this effectively meant that most Web accesses resulted in a dire warning. That was obviously a serious error in Google’s operation. What’s most interesting, though, is how well Google handled the problem.
Read David’s latestCNN.com article on this topic.
