October 8th, 2008
News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat
- Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage’s disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick
Dennis Howlett: Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Brian Sommer: Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
Ed Bott: Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?
- Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offering
- Microsoft Live Search now embedded in Facebook
News.com: Government report: Data mining doesn’t work well
Jason Perlow: Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
Michael Krigsman: Why Agile development matters [podcast]
CIO Sessions: Visa’s Michael Dreyer
Dancho Danchev: Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
Matthew Miller: Samsung Rugby put to the extreme at the Renaissance Faire
- RIM announces BlackBerry Storm with responsive touch screen display. Techmeme
- Review: HAVA Platinum HD lets you watch TV on your Nokia Internet Tablet, S60 or WM device.
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Jason O’Grady: Apple begins shipping replacement iPhone chargers
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid “brick” of aluminum
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data
- Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones
- From the vault: Lisa demo
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can’t write good software for Windows)
Telegraph: Steve Wozniak interview: iconic co-founder on the iPod, iPhone, and future for Apple
Sam Diaz: The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.
YouTube Blog: Like What You See? Then Click-to-Buy on YouTube
Larry Dignan: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- Kingsley-Hughes: Can two AMDs be better than one?
- John Morris: AMD finally announces “asset-smart” plan; new Foundry Company created
Dennis Howlett: Seesmic snags Washington Post
News.com: Google launches AdSense for Games
Paul Murphy: The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Dash Express connected GPS device. 
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TechRepublic: What to do about RFID chips in your wallet
Dana Blankenhorn: Chicken, egg and mobile open source
Dan Kusnetzky: Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework
Mashable: Facebook Rolls Out Microsoft Live Search
Heather Clancy: Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower
BI Crystal Ball– Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
Sean Portnoy: Future wireless networks could be powered by “smart lighting”
- DVDO unleashes Edge high-definition video processor/input hub
- Josh Taylor: Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?
ReadWriteWeb: Google Drops Some Knowledge on the Financial Crisis
Richard Koman: Online, hard to avoid debate
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward
- Restraining order against RealDVD stands
- Researchers publish details on London travel card hack
- Obama, McCain support making debates public
Silicon Alley Insider: Google’s Moment of Truth: Stock Hits $350
Sam Diaz: Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
GigaOm: Wholesale Internet Bandwidth Prices Keep Falling
Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury
Christopher Dawson: Google is your friend
- Michael Krigsman: Google is NOT your friend
- I’m well aware what I pay for Google’s services
- Consumers might not be ready for Linux netbooks, but we are
Paul Miller: Does the Semantic Web matter?
Roland Piquepaille: The invisible frontier of our solar system
Janice Chen: Remember Vivitar cameras? Here’s what’s in store next for the brand
Larry Dignan: Online ad revenue strong first half of 2008: What about the second half?
Jennifer Leggio: Blogger ethics, public relations… and you
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