Thu 02/01/2007 3:48 PM

technology news 1/26-2/1

I'm so sick of the tech news feeds being jammed full of Windows Vista stories. Still I managed to dig up a whole week of non-Vista stories for you... and I plan to do so again this next week.

Google's Sydney flyover
Keep an eye on Google Maps and Google Earth, specifically the area of Sydney, Australia, for locals hamming it up for the camera. Google gave residents of the area advance notice before a flyover last week in which they took updated high resolution photos for their web-based geographical services.

TomTom bug bug found found
Watch out if you've acquired a TomTom GPS unit in the past few months - it may be carrying a virus. The company isn't saying how they managed this one, but units manufactured during a one-week period back in October were shipped infected with the Backdoor.Win32.Small.lo virus, which will attempt to install other malware on any Windows-based PC the unit is connected to.

Seagate drive has gigabytes of wireless, pocket storage
Seagate has unveiled a wireless drive small enough to fit in your pocket, yet with a 10 to 20GB capacity, designed to use either Bluetooth or WiFi to allow sharing of files between cell phones, PCs and PDAs. Meanwhile, Motorola has invested in a software solution for the same purpose.

Nintendo's Wii is eclipsing Sony's PlayStation 3
Nintendo and Sony took very different approaches when coming up with the concepts for their latest game consoles, and when it comes to having one's fingers on the pulse of what consumers want, it looks like Nintendo wins. Their innovation in getting a player's whole body, rather than just their fingers, involved in gameplay with their Wii system has been a huge hit with the public, while the PlayStation 3 has fallen far short of Sony's sales expectations.

A closer look at what '$100 laptop' will be
The non-profit group One Laptop Per Child has been designing a laptop computer for use by schoolchildren that will cost little more than $100 a piece to manufacture. It hopes to ship 5 million of the computers to developing countries around the world by the end of 2007.

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