August 10th, 2007
News to know: Vista vulnerabilities; Apple patent; Google paid storage; Linux
Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers.
On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patches. Cisco.com goes dark on patch day. Cisco blog.
Jason O’Grady: Apple’s multi-touch trackpad patent.
Techmeme: Google goes with paid storage. Garett Rogers: Google may be preparing for GDrive with paid storage.
George Ou: LinuxWorld 2007 goes green with Green Grid consortium.
Images: Linuxworld 2007 (right). Paula Rooney: Linux-Microsoft Lovefest at LinuxWorld Expo.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s renamed Windows Live SkyDrive service gets a refresh. Windows Live SkyDrive blog. A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Cosmos.
David Berlind: Can’t I swap Twitter for FaceBook’s status box? (and other FaceBook questions). Couldn’t enterprises outsource their internal white pages to FaceBook?
Energy geeks compete for coolest solar home.
TechCrunch: AOL May Kill Their Netscape Digg Clone.
TheStreet.com: Nvidia doubles profit.
Larry Dignan: Notable nuggets from Google’s 10Q. Vonage: Has the bleeding stopped? Techmeme on Vonage.
Matthew Miller: The Missing Sync v4.0 beats the pants off of Microsoft’s ActiveSync. Gallery (right).
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How misleading was the “Windows Vista Capable” campaign? Vendors turn WiFi into a total disaster.
Michael Krigsman: Self-Contradictory Government IT Failure Report.
Russell Shaw: Mobile phone architect lists 10 iPhone problems.
Jason O’Grady: iPhone can send photos to Web Gallery (updated). David Morgenstern: Finding evidence of Mac life at LinuxWorld. Christopher Dawson: My anti-Mac bias rears its ugly head.
Larry Dignan: Kiss your email attachments goodbye. VMware ups IPO price range; preps for lift off.
Roland Piquepaille: A pollution indicator on our car dashboard? Heather Clancy Collins: Blade guys have their say about energy efficiency.
Steve O’Hear: FlashFlashRevolution launches widget for bands.
NYT: Equity Firm Invests in NBC Universal-News Corp. Online Venture.
Police agencies push for drone sky patrols. Images (right): Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea.
EMC to buy Tablus.
Ryan Stewart: Mobile devices and rich internet applications for increasing the reach of your application.
David Berlind: HP to safety official’s e-mail regarding potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: ‘Delete‘
Walled gardens: A necessary evil.
‘Madden’ said to regain past glory.
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