The FBI has joined the chase to trace the roots of LinkedIn's massive password leak last week. In the meanwhile, director Vicente Silveira has been keeping users updated via the LinkedIn blog. As of Saturday, LinkedIin has disabled any compromised passwords, and informed users, though, as far as LinkedIn is aware, accounts themselves have not been attacked. If your password still works, Silveira explains, LinkedIn doesn't consider your account threatened (but change your password anyway).
ASUS-made Google Tablet May Be Ready For June I/O
Google's new Nexus 7-inch tablet, expected to be manufactured by ASUS, could be ready by the end of June after all--in time for Google's I/O conference. Android Authority has heard from an ASUS employee that the device will cost somewhere between $150 and $250. The tablet will run a quad-core processor made by Nvidia, but opinion is divided over whether the tablet will host Android 4.0 or its newer version, Jellybean. With advanced Google OS specs and at that price, the tablet could challenge both the iPad and e-readers of all stripes.
Twitter Runs First TV Ads With NASCAR
Twitter and racing king NASCAR entered a mutually benefitial new partnership this weekend. A big part of that was a dedicated hashtag page for the event, hosted at twitter.com/#NASCAR, with featured content curated by algorithms and human hands. Also, for the first time, Twitter advertised the page on television ads like this one, showing a driver holding up his iPhone and taking a picture against a tagline that reads "See what he sees."
Lenovo Goes It Alone With Own-Brand Laptop Broadband in EU, U.S.
Lenovo, purveyor of high-end business laptops, has revealed a somewhat unusual move: It's launching its own-branded mobile broadband service in the U.S. and seven European nations, reliant on a single SIM card inside it's compatible laptops and tech from Texas-based Macheen. The service is priced at a cheap entry cost, with no contract, of just $2 for 30 minutes and 30MB, with a capped $9 a day fee and rising to $80 for more data. Targeted at business users who sometimes face exhorbitant Net access fees in hotels or steep data-roaming bills, it's a little more like Amazon's Whispernet than an MVNO. In some ways it's also similar to a plan Steve Jobs had long been rumored to have in his imagination as a way to avoid cell phone network monopolies, and prototype MacBooks with built-in 3G have been seen. With WWDC this week, recent rumors on this matter have swirled around an Apple patent.
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