random news items

Research sponsored by T9 (predictive text) company finds SMS shorthand considered annoying.
Symantec consultant who, by his own reckoning, got it wrong on the importance of browser vulnerabilities declares that the death of mass mailer viruses is imminent.
Evidently the silly season is in full swing.

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Bad Santas

in which I snark

I can't help but feel that the answer to "Why does all the cool stuff come out in Asia first?" involves a combination of "it's invented there", "it's made there", and perhaps most importantly "because they're trying to make money by creating new stuff instead of by suing over IP infringement" (of course, they may well be suing over IP infringement, but it doesn't as yet appear to be the prime money-making strategy that it is in, uh, other places)