CyberCrime & Doing Time:
More than 1 Million Ways to Infect Your Computer  —  An unknown hacker has been on a Search Engine Optimization rampage to flood search engines with more than a million ways to infect yourself with his virus.  This is the first major “Scareware” infection we’ve seen since writing …

Paul Miller / Engadget:
HP Firebird 803 tower with VoodooDNA leaked!  —  We always loved us that Voodoo-designed HP Blackbird 002, but it was certainly a behemoth.  Now it looks like the duo are going for a more realistic size — and hopefully pricepoint — with the all-new HP Firebird PC 803 that just fell […]

Electronista:
Apple slips 0.5% in PC share over summer  —  Despite a major shift from desktops towards notebooks in the summer, Apple slid slid significantly in its worldwide market share over the period, according to a new iSuppli study.  The MacBook creator lost exactly a half percentage point of influence …

pavlov.net:
Fennec Alpha 2  —  We’re happy to announce that our second alpha release of Fennec has come together.  While we focused much of the previous alpha on getting the user experience how we wanted, we’ve spent much of the time since focused on improving performance.

Stephen Shankland / Crave: The gadget blog:
iPhone claims high-ranking spot on Flickr  —  The iPhone has risen to prominence on Flickr, rivaling most SLRs in popularity.  These statistics from Yahoo cover the last 12 months.  —  (Credit: Yahoo)  —  The iPhone is the mobile device of choice these days for doing most things that […]

Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
iPhone claims high-ranking spot on Flickr … The iPhone is the mobile device of choice these days for doing most things that need a network.  So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the phone has carved out a prominent place on Yahoo’s photo-sharing site, Flickr.

New York Times:
Turning Page, E-Books Start to Take Hold  —  Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from paper to pixels?  —  For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read.  But this year, in part because of the popularity […]

New York Times:
After Slow Start, E-Books Turn Page and Find Fans  —  Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from paper to pixels?  —  For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read.

New York Times:
More Readers Picking Up Electronic Books  —  Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from pages to pixels?  —  For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few good things to read.  But this year, thanks in part to the popularity … […]

Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Vudu Knocks $200 Off Its Device (Will You Buy?)  —  Vudu has dropped the price of its movie delivery set-top box by $200 as the company continues to try something, anything, to get you to buy one (hat tip to Gizmodo).  The “Vudu Christmas Special” knocks the price of the box […]