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Denial of Service Attack
On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, etc.

Will You Pay For News Online? Rupert Murdoch Says You Will
News Corporation isn’t doing so hot right now. The media conglomerate (and owner of MySpace) has seen huge losses in the last year as newspaper revenues have crumbled and the online ad market has been stung by the recession.

Samsung’s Eco-Friendly ‘Reclaim’ Phone Is Made of Corn
Made from 40-percent corn-derived bio-plastic and 80-percent biodegradable material in general, Samsung, along with service partner Sprint, just announced the ‘Reclaim,’ touted as the world’s first green phone.

Coffee shops limiting laptop users
For we e-bedouins, workers who use the local coffee shop as their office for the price of a café americano, an article in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is bad news: some shops are beginning to crack down on such encampments.

Netbook + mouse = Newton Mogo Mouse for netbooks
Is this not the most impressive thing you have ever seen? It’s the Newton Mogo Mouse, a mouse for netbooks. Very fancy. So the mouse sits in a little holder-thing on the exterior of your netbook.

Is Cyber Warfare to Blame for Twitter Meltdown?
Everybody’s still regrouping after today’s Denial of Service attacks against Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and other social media websites.

NEWS: Panasonic Lumix GF1 fights back against Olympus E-P1
The Olympus E-P1 micro four thirds camera could be about to get a new challenger from Panasonic if images that have appeared on camera forums on the internet are real.

Why is Windows so expensive?
That’s right, the first result that shows up is a “Why are Mac’s So Expensive?” Yahoo Answers page. The person who created this page posted a question asking why Mac’s are so expensive, and that he was fed up of Windows.

Xbox 360 ‘Games on Demand’ priced between $20-30
Microsoft informed us this afternoon that its initial offerings of Games on Demand, the company’s selection of downloadable Xbox 360 titles, will be priced between 1600-2400 — that’s $20-30 in American credit card currency.

No Guitar Hero: Van Halen for Europe this year
We bring you sad tidings of yet another game’s delay into 2010 — but two elements of this particular delay may soothe your frayed nerves.