May 27th, 2008
News to know: Microsoft's social bookmarking; Google vs. Viacom; Adventures in Linux; Facebook
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd
Larry Dignan: Google: Viacom’s YouTube lawsuit threatens DMCA. Full complaint. Techmeme
Ed Bott: Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1
- Applications gallery (right).
- Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon system
- Firefox 3.0 RC1 contains critical bugs
Dancho Danchev: Open source software security improving
- Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN
- Tracking down the Storm Worm malware
- Facebook vulnerable to critical XSS, could lead to malware attacks
Joe McKendrick: Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps
- Software industrialization: not so fast, Henry Ford
- Sense and respond — should humans be part of complex event processing?
TechCrunch: Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
Christopher Dawson: Google vs. educational databases
Roland Piquepaille: Buses as mobile sensing platforms? Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation? Automated recognition of online images
Matthew Miller: Mobile software Monday: 4Smartphone hosted Exchange with mobile device clients
- Details of rumored devices emerge; the Nokia E71 and Palm Treo 850
- HTC Touch Dual available at Best Buy and WM 6.1 upgrade now available for HTC TyTN II
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)
Larry Dignan: Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for Xmas
- Kingsley-Hughes: Intel to use Centrino 2 (’Montevina’) to push solid-state drives
Jason O’Grady: Rumor: Tablet Mac coming this fall (updated 5x)
Kingsley-Hughes: What to expect from Steve Jobs at WWDC ‘08
Long Zheng: Windows 7 to make appearance at D6 Conference
Michael Krigsman: Twitter: An IT failures management perspective
Harry Fuller: Fayetteville becomes center of “Green Valley”
- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
- Heather Clancy: White paper offers hands-on tips for greening your data center
- Juggle that carbon: IBM releases a tool for managing the impact of corporate supply chains
- Two of world’s richest nations crawl to catch up with VCs
NASA’s live feed vs. Discovery Science: And the winner is… Gallery: First photos from Mars landing (right above)
Dana Blankenhorn: Don’t expect a flood of Mac open source
ReadWriteWeb: New York Times API Coming Sometimes Crowds Aren’t That Wise
Getclicky.com: Paypal has been terribly broken for 10 days and no one’s talking about it.
Dennis Howlett: Firescope crushes the BSM price point
Jason O’Grady: Gallery: Create your own black iPhone Images right.
Joshua Greenbaum: Siebel 2.0 – A Year Later
Garett Rogers: Peter Norvig on Google’s mistrust of machine learning
Denise Howell: Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away
Richard Koman: NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
Dana Gardner: Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback
Ryan Stewart: The Day Google Erased Me From the Internet - Why I Want Microsoft to Be Competitive in Search
Janice Chen: How does the new Pentax Optio W60 stack up against Olympus waterproof digital cameras?
Rik Fairlie: Actiontec launches a DSL modem/router combo
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