Bullet Points v7
* A five-inch portable computer with fold-out keyboard…
* Best line of the day: “”MySpace has gotten a bad rep as a bubbling scum of malware,” he added. “It’s where people go to incubate their malware.”
* But hey, folks–it’s not just MySpace: “But who are you trusting? A series of recent attacks has resulted in seemingly respectable news sites serving malware and redirecting users to sites that serve malware. The problem is in the ads on those news sites. The ads are served by advertising networks that weren’t careful enough with their own security. When you trust a Web site you have to trust everyone it’s in bed with.”
* Get these on street corners and in buildings as soon as they are available: “FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft and the DAISY digital talking books consortium are to work together on a tool for the blind and otherwise print-disabled that translates Microsoft Word documents into a digital audio standard. The two organizations said on Tuesday the collaboration was aimed at producing a free, downloadable plug-in that would translate documents based on Open XML — the default file-saving format in Microsoft Office 2007 — into DAISY XML.”

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