August 8th, 2007
News to know: Firefox; iMacs; Vista fixes; Linuxworld
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Dissecting Firefox’s retention woes. 
Gallery (above).
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft posts two major Vista fix packs for download. Shhhh! Pre-beta Vista SP1 is out there.
Ad-supported SpiralFrog finally launches music site. Ryan Stewart: Scrybe gets venture funding. VentureBeat: Forbes buys social bookmarking site Clipmarks. WSJ: Hearst to buy Kaboodle.
Dan Farber: Jobs unveils new iMacs, iL
ife and iWork. Jason O’Grady: The silent type: Apple quietly revs Mac mini. Gallery (right). Techmeme roundup.
Linuxworld coverage:
- Paula Rooney: Dell Preloads Ubuntu Linux in Europe, Offers SUSE Linux Desktop in China.
- Red Hat, Dell unveil JBoss OEM deal, IBM enlists Novell’s help.
- Morton: no merging of OpenSolaris with Linux.
- Andrew Morton opens up at LinuxWorld.
- Dana Blankenhorn: The importance of open source in hardware.
- News.com: Attacking Web 2.0 at LinuxWorld.
Larry Dignan: Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?
News.com: Cisco optimistically looks to the future.
Ryan Naraine: Vista kernel tampering tool released, then mysteriously disappears.
Salesforce COO leaves for Web start-up.
Green Grid lays out 2007 roadmap.
Michael Krigsman: IT Analysts in Price War?
Joe McKendrick: Survey: Done right, SOA pays.
Dana Gardner: Sybase demos swift use of iPhone as mobile client to corporate email, calendar, PIM.
Google: More Street View Cities.
Matthew Miller: HTC Advantage X7501 now available at U.S. retail stores.
China tries to cure Net addicts at summer camp.
Robin Harris: 50 ways to lose your data.
Russell Shaw: Video downloads, auto-redial and more offered in Skype 3.5 for Windows.
Five skills you need to be CIO.
Marc Orchant: SpeedFiler 2.0 for Outlook - faster and smarter.
Cross-country Segway rider hits film circuit. Photos: Rolling across America at ‘10 MPH’
Nine in 10 Americans say ban texting while driving.
Larry Dignan: The $150 laptop saga: Medison’s CEO speaks.
Dana Blankenhorn: Today’s Debate: Doctors vs. Insurers.
TechRepublic: Why you should never store your laptop in the oven.
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