This morning, Apple sent out inviations to an event January 27th, where the technology company will unveil its long-awaited tablet product.

With 20/20 hindsight, that prediction sounds non-controversial. But at the time it sounded crazy to many, and I got a lot of hate mail for it.After all, the Pre was viewed as essentially an iPhone, but with a physical keyboard and a more sophisticated user interface. The reason most pundits got it wrong is that they made the classic mistake of ignoring both market segmentation and human nature. The fallacy that most observers fall into is the mistaken belief that good product = market success.

Sophos is reporting that jailbroken Apple iPhones in Australia have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley.Though there are no reports of the worm having spread to other countries, it isn't unlikely that it has.The worm is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH.

A Chinese firm is touting a smartphone based on Windows XP and running an AMD Geode processor at its core, but whether it can deliver on all of the promises remains to be seen.In Technology Group Limited calls its creation the "xpPhone," and while the artistic rendering of the 4.8-inch screen shows the familiar Windows XP landscape, most of the UI is in fact quite custom and very different from a typical phone or any XP app you may have seen.