For your convenience and their financial gain, scammers are
altering their “business” model and diversifying their payment options.

For years, scammers have been programming fake security
software designed to incessantly bug you about bogus infections on your
computer. While scareware tactics aren’t new, they’ve become increasingly
sophisticated; and, until recently, the only way to give the scammers your hard
earned money was to divulge a credit card number. But, now these nefarious
groups are expanding the methods by which you can give them your money.

Learn more about the new scheme here.

The Hewlett-Packard TouchPad is a new offering by HP that will compete with the Apple iPad and the newest Android 3 tablets. It uses the WebOS operating system that HP got from their purchase of Palm last year.

HP is releasing several new devices using the WebOS, and eWeek has posted a helpful slide show that shows some of the features.

When will the TouchPad be released? The InfoSync tech blog posted this the other day where they claim an early June 2011 release date, along with a ~ $700 cost.

I am looking forward to checking out the new TouchPad – been hearing great things about the WebOS. I’ll keep you informed as I learn more.

Larry Dignan of ZDNet got a first look at a Google Chromebook. Interesting! I’ll want a look at one of these as soon as I can get my grubby little mitts on one. Strangely, they aren’t sending one my way. Hmmm…

A notebook computer running Google Chrome as the operating system. You fire it up, it hits the web using Google Chrome, and you go from there. This is early, but it does have the potential to be quite a game-changer.

See the report here

CNN Money has an interesting article, the gist of which has been floating around for a while: in mobile phone networks, 4G doesn’t really mean anything. In fact, CNN Money calls it a “myth”.

What you hear you are going to get – and what you actually get – are two very different things. And all of it is way below what the “standard” is supposed to be.

My take on this is that it will all shake out ever a period of time, which could be several months or more.

So, like anything with technology – most of the answers are not cut and dried. Just enjoy the speed improvements and let the advertising make for snappy TV commercials.

See the CNN Money story here.