Facebook 'Like' button used by viral scammers to push links - is malware next?
Facebook's announcement of its "Like" button has been a gift - to scammers and malware authors who take advantage of its simple Javascript to write exploits.Such "clickjacking" exploits first began appearing last week, though with no "payload" other than to spread pages virally throughout the site. However, anti-virus companies such as Sophos are warning that it could turn into a much more aggressive technique that will end up installing malware on peoples' machines when they think that all they're doing is going to hit a "Like" button on an innocent site.
The Guardian

EasyJet to trial volcanic ash 'radar'
Airline disruption caused by volcanic ash could be reduced using technology found in domestic security cameras, according to easyJet.The airline said today that installing two infrared sensors in an aeroplane tail fin, at a cost of €20,000 (£16,600), would allow pilots to spot and fly around ash clouds up to 62 miles (100km) away.
The Guardian

Mobile Infrastructure Market Suffers "Brutal" First Quarter
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its first quarter (1Q10) 2G/3G Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers market share and forecast report. According to Stéphane Téral, Infonetics principal analyst for mobile infrastructure at Infonetics Research: “It was a brutal first quarter for the mobile infrastructure market, with all segments down, marked by the absence of 3G rollouts in China, prolonged weakness in Latin America and Africa, and a continued pause in GSM upgrades and modernization.
Mobile Marketing Magazine

Rival ad networks allowed on iPhone. Except AdMob
Apple has tweaked its developer agreement to allow iPhone apps to use ad units from third-party mobile advertising networks. However, Google subsidiary AdMob is seemingly out in the cold. The new terms allow developers to collect analytics data from their apps for use by a mobile advertising network to track the success of its ads. This had been blocked last time Apple changed its developer agreement.
Mobile Entertainment

Yahoo! brings David Beckham onto the pitch
David Beckham has become the first ever global ambassador for the Yahoo!, the media company. Yahoo!’s David Beckham campaign
In a partnership, lasting from now until the start of the 2010/11 English football league season, Beckham will conduct exclusive interviews, write blogs and engage with fans through the Yahoo! website.
Marketing Week

Microsoft’s June security update equals record number of vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released 10 security bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities in the heaviest Patch Tuesday monthly security update so for this year. The number of vulnerabilities patched this month matches the record set in October 2009 when Microsoft released 13 security bulletins dealing with 34 vulnerabilities.
Computer Weekly

CEOs don't care about IT, says Forrester
Of the top 100 CEOs, only a very small number referenced IT in their annual report letters, George Colony, chief executive at Forrester Research, has told Forrester's IT Forum EMEA 2010.He said, "CEOs do not really care about IT. If you look at how IT is managed, you have lines of business and functional groups in the business and IT is a project-based world. I met FedEX's IT group, and the CEO asked how each project was going and could only ask, is it on time?"
Computer Weekly

Apple awards best iPad and iPhone apps
Apple has listed its winners for the best iPad and iPhone app designs at WWDC this week.
A number of our favourite games and apps such as the stunningly-addictive Doodle Jump and the virtual artists' Brushes for iPhone picking up well-deserved awards. Any iPhone or iPad owner will always have a list of their own favourite and most-frequently-used apps.
With hundreds of thousands of apps now available to download from the iTunes App Store, sifting through the chaff can be quite daunting for new users, which is why it is useful to have top ten lists and editor's picks and favourites to help you select the best.
Tech Radar

Twitter saw 2 billion tweets in May
Are you tweeting more these days? Seems somebody is. Last month, Twitter users hit a new milestone. They sent nearly 2 billion tweets in the month of May, according to Pingdom, a website monitoring service.  The number, 1.99 billion tweets, is a significant jump for the Twitterverse. Pingdom reported that last December, users hit 1 billion tweets per month for the first time. That's a doubling of tweets in just a few months.
Mac World

Google's 'fundamental change' with new Caffeine web index
The way Google searches the web changed fundamentally this morning when it announced that its index would now be based on the Caffeine system it first mooted in August last year.
The Telegraph