In this, first of a three part, interview a security specialist with Securus Global explains how Australia’s national web content filtering system could become a major security risk.

Positioning it as a “desktop replacement” Lenovo Group has released the ThinkPad W700ds a laptop with two LCD screens – a 17-inch primary and a 10.6-inch secondary screen.

Forget the Kindle and Sony readers, now you can read e-books on your iPhone and iPod touch. ScrollMotion has struck deals with several major publishing houses to release titles such as “Twilight” and “The Golden Compass” to the iTunes store.

If you’re like Jorge Sosa, you might have noticed buying a TV is now a process that seems about a bajillion times harder than it has to be. The last time he bought a TV, it was an old-school CRT model. “Bigger is better” was the one-and-only simple rule. Now, there’s a whole new lexicon to learn and it seems like you have be a genius to go about purchasing an idiot box. What follows is his personal cheat sheet on the digital TV hoohah. It’s even in plain English, and yes, “hoohah” is a real word.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Missing Manuals announced release of its first iPhone App, iPhone: The Missing Manual. This new App makes it possible to read and intelligently browse New York Times columnist David Pogue’s book-“iPhone: The Missing Manual, Second Edition” – on your iPhone.

Tests of a prototype device only slightly larger than a cellphone with centimeter-sized controls show it can be made perfectly usable by combining a screen on the front with a touch-sensitive pad on the back. This page includes a video of the prototype in use.

The eSlick will initially sell for $229, considerably less than the Kindle. The eSlick’s 6-inch, 600-by-800-pixel screen is made by the same company that makes the Kindle’s.

Now through December 23, 2008 get 50% off on over 40 popular WindowsMobile apps.

Palm has confirmed it will not develop any new traditional handheld PDAs. The last 2 models were released in October 2005.

FooPets are web-enabled, realistic-looking and emotionally engaging virtual pets for users of all ages. Different breeds of FooPets puppies and kittens are available for adoption on different locations across the Internet.