June 4th, 2007
News to know: iPhone date confirmed; Palm sells stake; Wizpy
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Did Xandros sign a Novell-like patent deal with Microsoft?
Jason O’Grady: Apple confirms iPhone release date: June 29. Engadget: iPhone release date confirmed: yours on June 29th. Computerworld: Will Microsoft beat Apple with its ‘giant iPhone’? Techmeme.
Palm Is Said to Sell Stake to Equity Firm in Revamping.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: TurboLinux Wizpy: Say goodbye to Windows? Gallery (right).
Ryan Naraine: Beware of that man between you and your Google Desktop.
Mashable: My Soul, and 10 Other Things that Google Owns. New York Times: Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine.
Dana Gardner: Silverlight on Linux, sans browser–this month. Ryan Stewart: JavaFX and the Rich Internet Application landscape.
Christopher Dawson: Science and Nature both reject MS Office 2007 file format.
Marc Andreessen: Bubbles on the brain.
YouTube signs licensing pact with Hearst-Argyle TV.
Mobility to reign at Computex.
David Berlind’s MonkCast #3: Will the day come when no IT pro ever gets fired for buying Google?
Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear. Larry Dignan: FSF publishes ‘last call’ draft of GPLv3. John Carroll: Why I won’t use GPLv3 software.
AP: Bid for Journal Is Talk of Wall Street.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right).
Fedora 7 unifies Red Hat, outside coders.
Appeals court ruling upholds Net phone taxes.
Oracle amends complaint in SAP suit. Joshua Greenbaum: Fusion Apps Are Coming, Fusion Apps Are Coming…..
Matthew Miller: The Palm Foleo: the beginning and end of the mobile companion category.
Techmeme: Amp’d Mobile files for Chapter 11.
Donna Bogatin: Google security alert: Universal Search scarier than Google Maps.
Computerworld: One year later: Five lessons learned from the VA data breach.
Photos: Building a greener future (right).
F-Secure CEO: There’s more malware than ever. IBM: Public vulnerabilities are tip of the iceberg.
Larry Dignan: 1986 Mac Plus beats a 2007 AMD dual-core PC.
Apple criticized for embedding names, e-mails in songs. David Berlind: iTunes supposedly DRM-free music not so DRM-free?
Fortune: Wii will rock you.
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