For some reason, this week seems to have been a busy one for the computer industry.
LinkedIn Goes Public. The big news on Wall Street was the initial public offering (IPO) of stock for the social networking site, LinkedIn.
I’m a member of LinkedIn, but I rarely use it. I suppose it’s maturity is a turn-off, but I have friends who say that it’s great and that they’ve gotten lots of business through LinkedIn. And I don’t mean Farmville “Someone buy me a pig” type of business, either.
If you were lucky enough to get in on the IPO, then you were blessed with a 109 percent return on your money today. My guess is that you weren’t so lucky. Who knows where the stock will go from here?
Apple Has Its First Big Malware Attack. The infection is called MACDefender, which is ironic because that program is the virus. If your silly enough to own a Mac, and daring enough to tell Safari (the Mac OS web browser) to automatically open ZIP files, then the virus is automatically installed on your computer when you visit an infected web site.
I use Firefox on the Mac, by the way. Even so, I never allowed Safari to open “safe” files, or even “unsafe” files.
The stupid part, and there’s always a stupid part for these stories, is that Apple support is refusing to help people get rid of the infection. The process isn’t that difficult, but apparently Apple is either in denial mode or, well, yeah: They’re in denial mode.
Facebook Fails. Why should I even bother to write about this topic? That’s because author Jesus Diaz does such a better job of it over at Gimodo: Click Here.
What resonates for me are the unreliability of Facebook, as well as its utter lack of support. It’s kind of amazing when you think about it: What other product or service can boast over 250,000,000 users per day and utter lack a tech support hotline?
Droid X2. The Droid X2 is available now, actually yesterday (Thursday, May 19). I went to a non-Verizon phone store and checked one of the beasts out. The real Verizon stores will have the phone next Thursday (May 26).
Physically, the Droid X2 resembles the Droid X in almost every aspect, except that it’s missing a camera button. The device can apparently use the same HDMI out cable, multimedia dock, and car mount.
Internally, the Droid X2 is a beast: Super fast, dual-core processor, higher-resolution display, plus more internal memory.
Presently the Droid X2 isn’t shipping with the newer, Gingerbread version of the Android operating system. That update, as well as the Gingerbread update for the original Droid X, is supposed to be happening later this month.
