Drive-by Web Attack Could Hit Home Routers
If you haven’t changed the default password on your home router, do so now.

Silicon Valley Meets ‘American Idol’ With Prizes to Inspire Inventors
Venture capital firms are considering contests with multimillion-dollar prizes for engineers and entrepreneurs who come up with innovative technologies.

New cell uses pitched at wireless show
BARCELONA, Spain – From a cell phone with just six buttons to one that lets users dictate text messages and another that delivers the results of a breathalyzer test, mobile handset makers put their most eye-catching gadgets on display at this week’s wireless industry conference.

New phone opens mobile world to technophobe grandparents
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – It could be the answer to grandmaÂ�s prayers: a mobile phone designed specifically for the over-65s that aims to take the fear out of technology and get the elderly connected.

Law Professor Calls For End To Wireless Carrier Abuses
Columbia law professor Tim Wu says consumers are fed up with misguided, and in some cases, outrageous and perhaps illegal policies.

Reports: Open source gathers steam
San Francisco (InfoWorld) – Separate reports from The 451 Group and Evans Data this week confirm what seems obvious: open-source software is impacting commercial software companies and continues to gain adoption worldwide.

Travel Web sites clamp down on bogus reviews
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Travel Web sites, such as Priceline.com Inc. and Expedia Inc. , are clamping down on fake online consumer reviews of hotels, which could undermine a growth area.

‘Amphibian Ark’ planned to save frogs
ATLANTA – Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.

Photos Reveal Mars Had Water Underground
New, detailed photographs show evidence of subterranean streams of liquid that once flowed long enough that they could have sustained simple forms of life, researchers say.