February 2nd, 2009

News to know: Microsoft's killer instinct; Google's blunder; Palm OS; Windows 7;

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:09 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, Operating System, Palm OS, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage

Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft’s Killer Instinct Must Return

Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as ‘malware’

• Google blames ‘human error’ for search ‘malware’ hiccup
  
• Official Google Blog: “This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?!  
• Michael Krigsman: Google search suffers outage
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: UPDATE x5: Google goes nuts with the “This site may harm your computer” warnings
• Garett Rogers: Google makes mistake, internet goes crazy

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms no more betas for Windows 7

Matthew Miller: Sling Media taking a wait and see approach to the Palm WebOS

Michael Krigsman: Hackers program highway sign with Zombie warning

Christopher Dawson: OLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate model

• Dana Blankenhorn: What OLPC has accomplished

Brian Sommer: The latest corporate dance: Layoffs by the numbers

• Tough times for H-1B visa holders
• John Carroll: What is American?

Oliver Marks: Getting on the wavelength

Joe Brockmeier: What do community managers, you know, do?

• Momentum matters
• The Open Road: Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge  

Joe McKendrick: Eighteen months to SOA? Hold that thought

• Dana Gardner: Progress Software’s Actional Diagnostics gives developers better view into services integrity

Sam Diaz:Whitehouse.gov’s YouTube cookies: The wrong privacy fight

Jason Perlow: Mobile Edge ScanFast is the true IT Road Warrior’s Backpack

• Gallery: Mobile Edge Checkpoint Friendly ScanFast Backpack
• Stretching your dollars with Linux on blogtalkradio

 

Andrew Nusca: Former Microsoft employee accused of spying

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage … genuine pain in the rear!

• Microsoft neuters UAC in Windows 7
• Long Zheng: Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta (with proof of concept code) 
• Andrew Nusca: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta
• Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

Garett Rogers: More traces of GDrive popping up

• Larry Dignan: Google GDrive clues surface; Is this really a big deal?
• Google Operating System: First Official Description of GDrive  

Yahoo drops its Briefcase

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Tipping Point Reached For Cloud Computing?

Jason O’Grady: The promise of a 3G MacBook

• New 17-inch MacBook Pro begins shipping
• Bag Friday: Booq Taipan Backpack
• Don’t feel like working? Bag Friday (at the Famous Wine Bar)
• Dell to launch Android and Windows Mobile phones
• Facebook developers promote iLife ‘09
• iPhone apps for your ears