Even as much of the midwestern US shivered under subzero weather, some stories were blazing hot. Here's a look back at some of the most important stories from the week gone.
One of the biggest themes at CES this year was netbooks. It seemed as though you couldn't hand someone a business card without knocking a netbook off of a display stand. With that in mind, we offered five reasons to seriously consider buying a netbook. They're small, but they're not underpowered for what they do, and they take us a step closer to ubiquitous connections.
Don't take nude pictures of yourself and put them online. That's generally the best policy to follow, and one that everyone under age 18 in the US should adhere to. A group of teenagers from Pennsylvania are facing child pornography charges after taking and exchanging nude pictures of themselves. Even the fact that 20 percent of teens say they have sent nude photos to someone doesn't make it a good idea.
Users have grown increasingly wise to official-looking e-mails that purport to be urgent requests for information showing up in their inboxes. That has led phishers to explore other avenues for separating personal information from the unwary. One such method brought to light this week involves an in-session browsing attack that exploits tabbed browsers.
Nokia has decided to make the open source Qt toolkit available under the LGPL. It's a significant move that could change the desktop landscape on Linux while redefining the economics of cross-platform development, making it easier to develop for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X simultaneously.
Chrome 2.0 is on its way... eventually. Google released the first developer preview of Chrome 2.0, one built on a very recent version of WebKit, and it offers a number of new features and refinements. Chrome 2.0 will have support for user scripting, full-page zoom, form autocompletion, and some nonstandard CSS features supported in WebKit.
Voices in the Obama administration and Senate have been calling for a delay in the digital TV transition scheduled to take place a month from now. Ars did some digging and discovered that one of the voices in the Obama transition team pushing for a delay is on leave from WiMAX provider Clearwire, a company that would benefit from a DTV delay.
Other big stories from the past week:
- A Microsoft executive tells Ars that those who really care will be able to hunt down the Jasper Xbox 360s
- Methane has been discovered on Mars. Is there life on Mars or unsuspected geological activity?
- It's not a cloak of invisibility, but it's an incremental step in that direction
- Google is enlisting a reseller army for Google Apps
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