At first glance, you might mistake the Dell Latitude E4300 for an earlier-vintage laptop: Its sharp lines and subtle finish stick out in today’s world of glossy gadgets with rounded corners. That’s not to say the E4300 isn’t a handsome portable, however–it did grow on me. Even better, the matte finish isn’t a magnet for fingerprints, dust, and smudges like every iPhone-inspired design on the market. If you don’t care about hip style trends that come and go, the vaguely retro E4300 is a pretty sweet all-purpose laptop that can serve you well for general office computing.

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A security researcher is accusing Verisign Inc. of not acting fast enough to take down several dozen sites that he says are known to be spewing malware.

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Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline.

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IBM will release a beta version of a software application designed to keep track of how information flows across different systems, sending alerts when source data has been altered or isn’t properly ingested into some target system or report.

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Microsoft is looking into battery problems apparently affecting Windows 7 notebooks amid complaints from some users that the OS has crippled their batteries.

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