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The Daily Engadget: Virus Hits Power Grid, Windows 7 Slow to Start?

by Tim Stevens on October 9, 2009 at 09:21 AM

The Daily Engadget: Virus Attacks Australian Power Grid, Barnes & Noble Planning Color E-Reader
Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.

Virus Attacks Australian Power Grid
We recommend you regularly upgrade the anti-virus protection on your computer. We strongly recommend you update such protection when that computer controls your entire local power grid. But leave it to the Aussies to disregard us. Fortunately, after the near disaster, administrators got some sense and switched to Linux.

Windows 7 Gets Slower with Age
Windows 7 is a mighty attractive alternative for many PC users, but one company is raining on the upgrade parade, saying that the new system boots just as slowly as Vista.

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Update Now Live
If your having some intermittent issues with your iPhone, Apple's recent OS update might help your iPhone that has permanently gone to sleep and other network issues.

Barnes & Noble's Color E-Book Reader Gets Official
First, the FCC intrigued us with some info of Barnes & Noble's promised e-ink reader. Then, the company went ahead and confirmed it, going one better by saying that a color version is just around the corner.

Japanese Suit Resists Swine Flu
H1N1 is making the rounds, and while it may or may not be as noxious as the media might make you think it is, nobody wants to get it. This magic suit will supposedly keep you safe. Supposedly.

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