Daily Dispatch: New IE Flaw; Google Toolbar continues to track you when disabled

Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

...Boston-based research firm Core Security Technologies has outlined a set of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that hackers can link together to remotely exploit a Windows PC. None of the vulnerabilities are serious enough to compromise a machine alone, but a hacker could take control of a PC by exploiting all of them at once. "There are three or four ways to conduct this type of attack," Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina, a security consultant with Core, told Reuters, though he admitted he was uncertain whether any hackers had already exploited his findings.

Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose "Disable" (Ben Edelman)

...In this article, I provide evidence calling into question the ability of users to disable Google Toolbar transmissions. I begin by reviewing the contents of Google's "Enhanced Features" transmissions. I then offer screenshot and video proof showing that even when users specifically instruct that the Google Toolbar be "disable[d]", and even when the Google Toolbar seems to be disabled (e.g., because it disappears from view), Google Toolbar continues tracking users' browsing.

Google Voice comes to iPhone and webOS, as a web app (Engadget)

FCC investigation be damned, Google has finally managed to bypass the App Store and release Google Voice to the iPhone (and webOS, too) the same way it pulled off Latitude, i.e. via a HTML5-based web app.

The Healthcare System: An Apple Tablet's Biggest Opportunity (ReadWriteWeb)

...The promise of improved clinical information systems, based on real-time information updates across patient touchpoints could be a workflow game changer. If the tablet becomes the tool that is carried with a nurse or doctor on their travels from patient to patient, it will save time, money and lives by enabling the first "always updated" system.

Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television (BBC)

The world's first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary. The apes created the movie using a specially designed chimp-proof camera given to them by primatologists.

Lighter Side: Letterman - Stupid Pet Tricks: Playing Dead (CBS)