President Obama confirmed on Thursday that he gets to have his blackberry, but lawyers and the Secret Service have decreed strict rules, reports The New York Times.

Among them:

• Only a small number of people will have his address.
• Those people must first be briefed by the White House counsel’s office.
• Obama’s messages will be designed so they cannot be forwarded.

Little details are provided as officials are keeping them to the minimal for “security reasons”

Creative has launched their new Zii LAbs SMS chip. Touted a the new media rich application processor, creative claims that the new ZMS chip will help create the state of the art hypercomputer.
The Chips was create to process multimedia content with ease and the chip can be daisy chained for more computing powers.

Expect the revolution of supercomputers, which might just sit on your desktop in barely 10 years time.

Thousands of Microsoft Zune MP3 player froze on New Year’s eve due to an error in the internal clock. This affected all users of the original 30gb version of the MP3 player.

Forums around the world exchanged a furry of comments and described the error as “Zune 30 meltdown” or “Z2k” in reference to the Y2k bug.

Microsoft has issued a statement that the internal clock has an error when handling the start of a leap year and the clock will automatically reset itself by the next day.

Not that many people will be using the MP3 player by 2013, but one wonders if that would be the next time the device freezes again.

A watershed event has occured in the technology industry. For the first time ever, more laptops or notebooks were shipped worldwide compared to desktop.
While many has long predicted that this day will come, it is still a milestone, indicating that the day has come where notebooks will soon overtake the role of the PC.

A majority of the 79 million notebook being shipped are netbooks.

There will soon come a day where our children will recognise the desktops were are using now the way we recognise the a 286 computer.

A serious threat has been exposed to all users of internet explorer, the most popular browser in the world currently.

According to Trend Micro, as many as 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week to exploit the flaw.

Microsoft has currently only detected attacks against version 7 of internet explorer, but they warned that other version could also be vulnerable

The flaw allows people to be tricked into visiting websites coded with a malicious program which can then steal passwords from the victim’s computer.

Microsoft has said that it would consider releasing a emergency patch for the flaw.