September 12th, 2008
News to know: Windows 7 Beta; Google; $2,000 PC; Gates & Seinfeld; iTunes 8 fix
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Ryan Naraine: Secunia launches pay-as-you-go exploit shop
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC
When it comes to LEDs, people are beginning to see the light
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: Beta 1 tracking for mid-December
- Microsoft Surface toolkit to offer insights into Windows 7 multi-touch
- Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware: We have you surrounded
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Possible fix for iTunes 8 BSOD
NoScript mitigates HTTPS cookie hijacking attacks
Jason D. O’Grady: Free NBC television shows in HD
Jennifer Leggio: Warning - Feedburner can be hazardous to self-esteem
Sam Diaz: Gates & Seinfeld’s next commercial: Better. With funny parts
- Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon
- Video: Microsoft’s rough start to a new beginning
Zack Whittaker: The music scene: legal vs. illegal
Flight attendants want porn banned from Wi-Fi flights
What’s happening in Mobile: a peek at new products, services
Intuit announces cloud products for Quickbooks
IT Dojo video: Three ways you might be breaking the law with your computer
Sam Diaz: DOJ contemplates a bigger fight with Google
Jason O’Grady: Apple notebook refresh rumored to arrive October 14 Gallery: iPod nano 4G unboxing [right]
Systems log analytics offers operators performance insights that set stage for IT transformation
Dan Kusnetzky: Neocleus presents end-point virtualization use cases
Dennis Howlett: The enterprise startup conundrum
T-Mobile crawls into mobile app game, gives Apple bigger headstart
Robin Harris: 2 platter, 500GB, 2.5″ drive
Google’s 9 month log anonymization a farce?
It’s time GOOG dropped the beta on GMail . . . seriously
New RIM apps cater to consumer, not corporate users
100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don’t Be Surprised.
Matthew Miller: Everything you want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardware
- First impressions of the Sprint HTC Touch Diamond
- Yahoo! oneConnect comes to iPhone first
- Manage your calendar and team members with Franklin Covey FCmobilelife on your phone
- InScribe had sliding text entry a decade before Swype, what’s the big deal now?
- More thoughts and videos on the Samsung OMNIA, may be traded soon
Review: Apple iPod Touch (second generation, 32GB)
Dana Blankenhorn: Fedora and our security attitude
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Radeon HD 4550/RV710 sneak peek
Dan Kusnetzky: Mark Templeton shares his vision at Citrix event
UK educator: Teach creationism
Blogger conversation: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on wiki success and failure [podcast]
Red Hat: Virtualization will be free
Inspiration from an Internet entrepreneur
Are telecommuters inherently greener than the rest of us?
Roland Piquepaille: Nanotechnology coming soon to IMAX
Apple execs settle shareholder suits for $14 million
Ed Burnette: Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
- Mitch Ratcliffe: LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics
Dana Blankenhorn: Unwilling veterans of 9-11
Will biotech change pharma ethics?
Christopher Dawson: Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?
The coolest bits of classroom tech I’ve ever seen
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