Google users generally learn to hate companies that pretend to offer information but really just act as redirectors for web hits - and when a bunch of recent searches showed that Microsoft's bing isn't (yet?) pollutted by these guys, they earned my business on the spot.

With competition coming from the likes of Cisco/Linksys and Yamaha, Sonos looks to be making a bit of an upgrade to its multi-room audio solution. A new remote has been spotted by UK blog Automated Home, the first from Sonos that is a touchscreen model, instead of using a scroll wheel control. The new CR200's interface borrows heavily from the one Sonos developed as an iPhone app; it retains the color display that the current model already offers. The controller does have dedicated volume buttons as well as a mute button and Home button. Its slightly different color scheme will be reflected in a new bundle with similarly hued player units. Sonos hasn't officially announced the CR200, so there are...

During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Engadget and Chip.de, started reporting that parts of the web sites are unreachable due to malware warnings appearing through the EyeWonder interactive digital advertising provider. Let's assess the butterfly effect of a single malware incident affecting an ad network whose ads get syndicated across the entire Web. What originally started as "we have been mistakenly flagged as malware", briefly turned into "appears the EW.com domain was potentially maliciously "hacked" causing these errant and erroneous alerts to appear" malware incident. Is the EyeWonder attack a typical malvertising campaign where malicious content is pushed on legitimate...