BBC News - Android handsets 'leak' personal data

Android phone owners are being urged to update their handset to avoid problems

BBC News - Android handsets 'leak' personal data

Apple iPhone, iPad sales slow as iPhone 5 hits Q3 - Computerworld Blogs

 Apple iPhone, iPad sales slow as iPhone 5 hits Q3 - Computerworld Blogs

In Optogenetics, Buttons for Neural Switchboards - NYTimes.com

Deisseroth Laboratory

STANFORD Optogenetics, tested in rodents, can control electrical activity in a few carefully selected neurons, and may hold new insights into our disorders.

In Optogenetics, Buttons for Neural Switchboards - NYTimes.com

USAF Surveillance Airship On Track for 2012

USAF Surveillance Airship On Track for 2012

PREVENTING SPAM scam on Facebook does exactly the opposite | Naked Security

A rash of SPAM on Facebook. this morning. The following article on Sopho's outlines what's happening and the steps that Facebook has taken to combat it. The latest SPAM scam, uses an exploit of the SHARE function on Facebook and shares an infected APP that exploits your friends walls.

This is the latest in a LONG growing list of Security issues at Facebook.

PREVENTING SPAM scam on Facebook does exactly the opposite | Naked Security

Source: Sophos

App prevents insurance headache after disaster strikes

Looks like a GREAT APP, for those of us located in Tornado Prone area's. Easy way to LOG your serial numbers and photo's of your valuables for Insurance adjustments.
App prevents insurance headache after disaster strikes

Microsoft Buy Skype

Breaking news this morning in the tech sector.  Microsoft has agreed to purchase VOIP provider Skype for 8.5 billion, including some debit.  A formal announcement if forth coming in the next few hours.  The Wall Street journal reported in a online story Monday night that the deal was possibly going to occur.

Last week it looked like Skype and Facebook would possibly be partnering.

Under the deal, it places Skype CEO Tony Bates at the helm, in a new business unit within Microsoft.  He will be reporting directly to Microsoft Boss Steve Balmer.

Skype is a Luxembourg based Voice over Internet Provider that was started in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, both of Kazza fame.

More updates on this story will come later in the morning so check back frequently on this one.

Update: 05/10/2011
Full details on the Aquisition of Skype in a Press Release from Microsoft added.  Blamer indicated that Skype technology will be integrated in Xbox, Outlook as well as phones.

Source: CNN Money, SeattleTimes, Microsoft