I already keep pictures of my family on my Backberry 8800. I don’t wear a watch so I rely on the device for telling time. My Blackberry even let’s me leave my iPod at home because I can listen to my mp3s and watch movies on it too, but will I ever be able to save my credit cards, identification, and replace my cash with features on my phone? (more…)

McAfee Avert Labs is claiming that 27% of all PCs their products have scanned since last Friday are infected with a Trojan malware named Downloader-UA.h. This Trojan was found disguised as media files on more than half a million computers. Believed to have been planted on file sharing sites like Limewire and eDonkey, users are tricked when trying to play a media file they downloaded.

As explained in the Yahoo news article Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs: (more…)

Computer keyboards can be dirtier than a toilet: study is an article from news.yahoo.com that caught my attention, and will defnitely make me clean my keyboard and mouse more often!

“A study by British consumer magazine “Which? Computing” asked a microbiologist to examine 33 keyboards in a typical London office, a toilet seat and a toilet door handle, for bugs generally found in unhygienic places.

Four keyboards were judged potential health hazards and the microbiologist recommended the removal of one keyboard as it had 150 times the pass limit of bacteria — five times filthier than the swabbed toilet seat.”

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British Snap Up Nintendo’s Wii Fit Video Game from news.yahoo.com by Frederick Lane

“For a nation perhaps better known for a fitness regimen of darts and a pint, the news from Elspa Ltd.’s Chart-Track was particularly startling. The data-compilation service, which among other things tallies the sale of software titles, announced that last week Nintendo’s Wii Fit was the top-selling title in the United Kingdom. The company’s Mario Kart Wii dropped to the number-two position.”

“Chart-Track said Wii Fit had the sixth-fastest-selling launch of any software title, recording more than $32 million in sales in its first seven days. Approximately one in 10 Wii owners in the United Kingdom purchased Wii Fit, the company said. Only games from the industry’s major franchises — Gran Turismo, Grand Theft Auto and Halo — did better than Wii Fit in their opening weeks.”

Read the entire article at the link above.

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iBand makes music with two fingers… and iPhone from news.yahoo.com by Luc Andre:

“Six fingers and three iPhones are enough to create a band, and Austria’s iBand is living proof, having scored a hit on the Internet by converting the little gadgets into a guitar, a keyboard and a set of drums.

The Viennese trio first gained attention in February on the video-sharing website YouTube with its music video “Life is greater than the Internet.”

Here’s the video from YouTube: (more…)