The HP 6500 - a Blackberry and Treo killer?

Check here at Gizmodo

Spyware goes to the rootkit level...

Spyware "Cool Web Search" has stooped to new levels of malice in its effort to exist undetected on a pc. According to this article it has taken on rootkit characteristics. True rootkits reside at the kernel level of the OS and can hide themselves from the rest of the system while changing any and nearly all system settings like user accounts, passwords, etc.

The latest Google speculation

Kuro5hin.org: Who will Google Buy Next?

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Pod Slurping?

from E2KSecurity

Pod slurping?

From the "sounds dirty, but isn't" department, the newest security threat to corporate America: pod slurping. Abe Usher wrote a small executable that can be run from an iPod connected to a PC. When run, slurp will find and copy all of the document files it sees in subdirectories of c:\documents and settings. I hate it when that happens.

[Exchange Security]

Microsoft Announces to Graphic Tool

From Scolbeizer:

New graphic tool from Microsoft announced

Announcing Microsoft Acrylic. "Acrylic" is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive mediums.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

MSN brings tabbed browsing to IE a little early

Here is the article from PC Mag

Apple's First Intel may be from the Pentium M family

Click Here to Learn more about how the Pentium M may be the best first step for Apple in the Intel world. So much for the G5 PowerBook.

MORE LINKS ON THE APPLE INTEL ANNOUNCEMENT

Click Here

APPLE ANNOUNCES SWITCH TO INTEL CHIPS STARTING 2006

With the move to be completed by 2007 its a major deal. Interestingly, you will be able to run Windows on a Mac but not MAC OS X on anything but a Mac.

Read more from ZDnet here.

LENOVO (IBM) HITS THE TABLETPC GAME

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/06/07.html#a10329

$$ for contact information?

I have decided that I will start submitting my friends contact information to Jigsaw. If you are a friend and think that I have enough of your information to submit it to Jigsaw to make a quick buck then please send me $2 to keep your information private.

what is this world coming to? Information truly is valuable even if its just your little black book or your entire customer database!

don't worry I won't submit your information.


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Jigsaw and Steve W. Martin: spammers

Jigsaw.com, which pays its customers for uploading other people's contact data. Jigsaw is much worse than Plaxo; at least with Plaxo there's some utility to making your contact information available. Jigsaw bills itself as a sales lead database, and (to their credit) their TOS prohibits spamming-- but I'm still not thrilled with the idea that someone I know made a buck (literally; Jigsaw pays $1/contact) so that boneheads can send me spam. I'm sure a lot of more famous bloggers (cue: Scoble!) will probably be hearing from this guy soon.

[Exchange Security]