Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with Android Live is broken open by the FCC

Someone does not waste any time. Last month we reported on the combined musical mind Android and now what appears to be a decidedly darker version of Sony Ericsson Walkman with Live made ​​its way through the FCC and out the other end parts – literally. Since the holding did not retain much in its initial announcement, we will not make great discoveries here, but if you are dismembered in smartphones we have a gallery of the combined chips await you below.

Blogger Hit DDoS death threats

Mask.of.sanity writes “An Australian blogger blew the lid on fraud campaigns emerging domain name has been threatened with death by the crooks. His blog and domain parking company are still hit with a denial retail of service attack that included the death threats in the form of HTML links in its newspapers. Team Australia Government CERT and the U.S. Secret Service (blog servers were hosted on U.S. soil) and continuing control of botnet server control. Ten days later, the victim is still attacked and is fighting a game of cat and mouse as IP address ranges of change. ”

Waterstone UK seller delivers to enter the race e-reader

Waterstone is not exactly the biggest name in the sale of books (at least stateside), but he knows that to survive in this market, it will have to get on the train e-book. The Director General of the British company, James Daunt, told Radio 4 that it planned to enter the market with both an electronic book store and a real drive by spring 2012. Mr Daunt said he was inspired by the success of the Nook , and the challenge it poses for Amazon Kindle , only to take a stab at the British chain ushering in the 21st century. Of course, while we hate to sound harsh buzz, Waterstone has been offering e-books and e-readers since 2008 through a partnership with Sony with only minimal market impact. And we have already seen a major book seller (double the size of Waterstone) fall flat on his face as they tried to enter the digital age. But still, we want Daunt and his company all the best.