ASUS HAS CONFIRMED to the INQUIRER that it will add an e-book reader to its portfolio, whilst MSI has also confirmed to us that it is “looking into the e-book reader market”.

Dodgytimes has reported that Asus president Jerry Shen said it’ll have an e-book reader in its Eee PC range for Christmas.

We got in touch with our contact inside Asus where the story was confirmed. It’s just one of the concepts to come out of Asus’s WePc.com initiative, apparently. That’s a community design website with the tagline ‘You Dream it, Asus Builds it, with Intel inside” - all of which speaks for itself.

This could very well mean the ‘EeeBook’ will be powered by an Intel processor, seeing as how it is the key partner in the programme.

Asus confirms an eeebook - The Inquirer

If you change the link in the application settings, it affects all of the historical tweets generated by the application. So it’s pretty quick and easy to experiment with different URLs and see what happens. I wonder if it’s possible to get rid of that pesky nofollow attribute? Let’s see what happens if we change our ‘Application Website’…..

Massive Twitter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

POOR HARD DONE BY BRITS looking to buy a copy of Microsoft’s long-awaited apology for the whole Vista debacle, otherwise known as Windows 7, will be pleased – and probably a little shocked – to discover that they can get their hands on a copy of the operating system for close to half the price our colonial cousins will have to pay.

Battered by the constant rain of the third summer in a row which never actually arrived, the embittered populace of Rip-off Britain finally has something to smile about. Though being the suspicious lot that we are, we can’t help but look for the catch.

Windows 7 uk pricing shocker - The Inquirer

I used to laugh at the WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS people, with their silly keyboard templates and inscrutable function-key combinations—I had proper menus and italic text that really looked italic! Of course I also had slow scrolling speeds in graphics mode to view those italics, and bizarre text transitions that would happen when you deleted invisible formatting commands.

Word for Windows 1.1 was a delight with the transition to a GUI interface, then Word for Windows 2.0 both pleased me with a bevy of new features and frustrated me because it took twice the RAM just to get up in the morning. (Macintosh Word 6 users, I’m sure, have no sympathies). Word 95 was really just Word 6 with red squiggle spell checking and long filenames, and after that things pretty much stayed the same until Word 2007, when Microsoft changed the entire user interface because it was getting too hard to find all the new features they kept cramming in.

Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009 - Ars Technica

Now that Black Hat 2009 is over the Security community moved over to the Riviera hotel and casino in Las Vegas. After being there for a couple of minutes I got alerted by one geek not looking very healthy (maybe as a result from the parties last night) but more importantly sneezing all the time. Obviously he caught a cold somewhere. I hope for all of us that it is really only a cold and not a swine flu A H1N1 infection. Read the full story at ITRiskSpace.com

-Andreas