February 21st, 2008
News to know: Black Hat; VoIP design flaws; Vista SP1; Apple
Notable headlines:
Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs
George Ou: Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update
LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch point
Ed Bott: How do you benchmark real-world work?
Jason O’Grady: MacBook Pro Penryn update imminent. David Morgenstern: The mysteries of Apple’s logo and other high-tech brands revealed. Christopher Dawson: MacBooks - to deploy or not to deploy, part 1. Robin Harris: Apple’s cookie monster: Safari CRS
Adobe vs. Apple: Flash spat over iPhone gets intense
Curt Monash: H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo
Larry Dignan: Does Microsoft really need Yahoo? Pondering the opportunity costs
Garmin: The curse of the Nuvifone and GPS price com
petition
Russell Shaw: Numerous BlackBerry BIS service outages reported
Sprint’s turn to escalate wireless price wars
Dave Greenfield: Solving the Virtual World Interoperability Problem
Rik Fairlie: Velocity Micro’s Windows Home Server for power users
Dana Blankenhorn: Will open source be a victim in the Dot Bomb 2.0?
Fortune: eBay seller strike starts; listings dip
ReadWriteWeb: eBay adds Adsense for video–minus the video
Matthew Miller: HP may be launching an ASUS eeePC mobile PC competitor
John Morris: HP’s mysterious ultra-mobile PC
Escaping decades of hidden app development inefficiency and expense
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Making the case for 64-bit Windows Vista
Doing a number on Web site traffic
Joe McKendrick: BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream
James Farrar: Lawson on Corporate Social Responsibility:Thou Shalt Obey The Law
Russell Shaw: Vonage customer cancels, then gets call from collection agency, and then… Skype call trend lines are changing: here’s what this means
Microsoft: ‘We try to reproduce every vulnerability that comes in’
Richard Stiennon: Great source on cyber espionage
3Com, Bain, Huawei pull filing with U.S. foreign investment committee
Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checks
Roland Piquepaille: Wizkid robot unveiled at MoMA
Heather Clancy: Cisco green-speaks! Chambers outlines how telepresence, remote work options can aid the green movement Harry Fuller: Researcher: forgot those solar panels, get back into the lab
HipMojo.com: Why most VC backed ad supported companies are doom
ed
Janice Chen: New Ricoh R8 sports wide zoom in a compact body
IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips
Engadget: Microsoft announces games for Zune
Ryan Stewart: $6.5 Million for Blist - another Flex app gets funding
The importance of tools in rich Internet application platforms
Wii Fit,‘ WiiWare due in U.S. in mid-May
Richard Koman: Bank that censored WikiLeaks was preparing for IPO
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