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RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon Wireless)

The good: The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 offers world-roaming capabilities as well as Bluetooth, GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The smartphone offers a great design that combines a sharp display and an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard in a fairly compact size. The bad: The smartphone lacks Wi-Fi. The Web browser falls short of the competition, and there's a bit of shutter lag on the camera. You can't save applications to a media card. The bottom line: With a winning design and fast performance,...

Bot herders using Twitter for command and control

I wrote about my worries on the future of social networking earlier this week. My point was that I was concerned because of the botnet resources some organizations had and how they could take down sites like Twitter and Facebook when they were pissed at someone using those platforms. Well, looks like my worries are over. Why? Because some of those botnets are being controlled by botherders via - you guessed it - Twitter! And if botherders are using Twitter for command and control of their botnet...