Techie Roundup...

A busy past seven days in technogeekdom... in no particular order:

Sony gets busted depositing malware on unsuspecting hard drives and disabling CD-ROMs in the clean-up attempts, with the antivirus community now concerned about copycat techniques from truly malicious (as opposed to simply misguided) actors...

Sprint debuts the first music download store in the US that works directly to mobile phones, with the same purchase price ($2.50/song) also allowing a download to a home computer (further highlighting the shortcomings of the ROKR)...

Big Media steps up its assault on common sense with new legislative offerings (and associated hearings) to close the so-called "analog hole" (a/k/a your ability to make non-digital copies of pre-recorded/broadcast content)...

and on a lighter note, those wacky Brits find yet another use for text messaging (both links NSFW).

I just wish I had anything non-trivial to add at this point... but sometimes there's just not much there in the "second-day lead." Maybe that's why I left journalism...