New spam campaign takes advantage of April Fools’ Day in an effort to to infect more computers to become part of the larger Storm worm botnet.

From FriendFeed to Pulse and Digsby, there’s no shortage of sites that want to help you make sense of it all. Meet the “lifestreamer.”

In a triumph of the freedom of speech, a group from the Tennessee town of Crossville gets approval to install a statue of ‘His Noodly Appendace’ outside the local courthouse.

In spite of the continual noise around Macs gaining marketshare, Windows still totally and completely rules the enterprise roost. That’s another of the findings of the Forrester Research report I cited earlier today — “Enterprise Desktop And Web 2.0/SaaS Platform Trends, 2007.  Consumer love aside, Macs still just don’t matter in the business world. From the report, released by Forrester on March 31: “Enterprises’ share of Windows users dropped by nearly 4% during the year, but Microsoft’s monopoly remains undisputed: Some 95% of business users run Windows. While 2007 was a big year for Apple, with its enterprise share growing threefold to 4.2%, uptake remains limited to enthusiasts and small workgroups. IT departments crave standardization, and Macs pose too many…

Apple had a rough security week. Vista was hacked. And Linux is unhackable. Those takeaways appear to be the consensus view following the Pwn2Own contest but it’s not that simple. Under the contest rules, organizers offered the Sony Vaio (Ubuntu 7.10), Fujitsu U810 (Vista Ultimate), and the MacBook (OS X 10.5.2) as prizes. Sure, the MacBook fell first at the Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest last week. And yes, the MacBook was fully patched and still fell. But the odds were strong that the MacBook would have been the first to fall no matter what Apple did. Why? Glory. Taking down a MacBook gets the headlines. It’s sexy. It’s a blogger’s dream. The more prominent Apple becomes the more hackers…

Montalvo Systems has spent a lot of money and hasn’t produced a chip for commercial shipment yet. Cuts look inevitable.

The combination of a thirst for the Internet and a mobile society has the smartphone industry positioned to define the next generation of computing.

Young video game league thinks it can build big interest in its sport by training new players at a facility that can also seat more than 1,000 people for matches.

Phase change memory could actually make its debut later this year. It’s only taken decades to wring out the problems.