May 21st, 2008
News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization
Notable headlines:
Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites
- Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks
- DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed
- Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds ‘highly critical’ Foxit Reader Flaw
- Are you wary of the insider on the outside?
- Apple under pressure to fix Safari ‘carpet bomb’ flaw
- Nate McFeters: PayPal fixes XSS vulnerability
- Ed Bott: Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS
- Oliver Marks: You are being talked about online
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Does running Vista make you feel safe from malware?
- TechRepublic: Be prepared for your next Spyware battle with a removal checklist
Nate McFeters: What is the U.S. doing about security? Part II.Larry Dignan: HP’s second quarter solid; Focus remains on EDS
Robin Harris: High-end disks dead in 2 years
Todd Bishop: Microsoft to lure search users with cash
Review: SimpleTech Signature Mini (320GB, red)
Paula Rooney: Microsoft HyperV RC1 available for testing
- XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers
- Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client sales
Review: 
RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon Wireless)
Larry Dignan: OLPC outlines XO-2; Can it deliver?
- Christopher Dawson: More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- John Morris: The XO-2 laptop looks great, but…
- Richard Koman: Negroponte’s big lie
- Techmeme
Phil Wainewright: Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping
Jason Hiner: Nortel claims that it is siphoning network customers away from Cisco
Garett Rogers: Google releases Health API to developers
Dennis Howlett: SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s $300 million makeover
- Yo Philly: iSepta perfect for Philly iPhone users
- Get one of these: Chumby (updated)
- Chumby gallery (right)
Gizmodo: iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed
Paul Murphy: iCenter? Wishing, not predicting
Dana Gardner: IBM executive defines next generation of enterprise datacenters through cloud computing
- Business imperatives theme dominates Forrester’s IT Forum conference opener
- MokaFive announces general availability of LivePC desktop-as-a-service offering
Joe McKendrick: Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better
TechCrunch: Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong
Google Blogoscoped: The Internet FAQ from 2085
Richard Koman: Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is ‘unfair and unwise’ Paul Miller: Ask questions of Tim Berners-Lee, Nova Spivack and others
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Macs account for two-thirds of sales of PCs costing $1,000 or more Ryan Stewart: Silverlight version of New York Times reader for Macs
Matthew Miller: Triple booting into Vista, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu on a Fujitsu U810 UMPC
Dana Blankenhorn: Privacy, secrecy, innovation and open source
David Morgenstern: A vote for passive noise isolation, not active reduction
Koman: Google holds firm against Lieberman’s call to take down Islamist videos
News.com: Nielsen: MySpace, Club Penguin growth static, LinkedIn soaring
Investing legends circle Yahoo; Does a breakup make sense?
Harry Fuller: The Folks at NTR say it’s a small, but crucial, step from software to landscape
Rik Fairlie: Netflix launches device for watchin
g movies on TV Gallery (right), review, and is it a game changer?
Steve O’Hear: TweetCube, dead simple filesharing on Twitter
Roland Piquepaille: A 13th century social network
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