June 4th, 2008
News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE
Notable headlines:
Jason O’Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008
- TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08?
- News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday
- Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone?
Larry Dignan: AMD makes its notebook move; Puma goes live Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD officially unveils next-generation “Puma” notebook platform
Mary Jo Foley: Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote
- Ryan Stewart: Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
Dancho Danchev: Metasploit Project’s site hijacked through ARP poisoning
- Dino Dai Zovi: Flash attack may as well have been zero-day
TechRepublic: How do I… Connect an Apple iPod to an Ubuntu Linux PC?
Matthew Miller: The new HTC Touch Pro has a 5-row keyboard with the TouchFLO 3D UILarry Dignan: Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo WSJ: Icahn Steps Up Yahoo Attack, Seeks Yang’s Ouster as CEO
- Ed Burnette: What Yahoo doesn’t want you to know about the Microsoft deal
- Mary Jo Foley: More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmm
Jason Perlow: OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu’s Volkswagen
Joshua Greenbaum: Taking on Excel, and Winning, Sort Of.
- Dennis Howlett: The spreadsheet love affair
- Video: Spicing up spreadsheets
David Morgenstern: How ‘warm’ is your MacBook operating temperature?
- Leopard boot DVDs released for Prosoft utilities
- AppleInsider: All-encompassing iPhone patent filing hints at GPS, video chat
Paul Murphy: Does OpenOffice.org fall short?
Ed Burnette: Patrick Brady dissects Android
Webware: Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine
Dignan: The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Netbooks - Too little, too late, and way too expensive
- Matthew Miller: The MSI Wind blows out of the gate with an Intel Atom processor
- NVIDIA to beef up notebook graphics with Hybrid SLI and GeForce 9M Series GPUs
- Gallery: Computex focuses on smaller, cheaper laptops (right)
Gallery: NVIDIA announce GeForce 9M Series notebook GPUs (right)
Michael Krigsman: Miracles happen: a transparent gov’t dashboard
GigaOm: YouTube’s Head of Monetization Quits, Joins Cooliris
Richard Koman: NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled
Google tweaks enterprise portfolio; Adds features to custom search
Matthew Miller: Do U.S. carriers get a bum rap for their wireless networks?
- E-TEN announces four new Glofiish Windows Mobile devices
- Ed Colligan talks a bit about Palm OS 2.0 and the future of Palm
Christopher Dawson: My best year scheduling yetVirtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fit
Computerworld: Firefox on track to crack 20% share in JulyNews.com: Goosh: a retro Web app with cutting-edge interface
IT Facts: Semiconductor sales up 5.9% in April 2008
Christopher Dawson: Servers need TLC, too, right?
Dana Blankenhorn: Iraq War gives assistive technology a permanent boost
- Wikia gives the little guy image control
- ABI Research: Linux to take 23 percent of smartphone market by 2013
- Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?
Time Warner Cable’s metering plans: Why not?
Images: MIT predicts tech to jump-start economy
Rik Fairlie: Ozmo Devices aims to replace Bluetooth with Wi-Fi-based PAN
Joe McKendrick: Are vendors emphasizing the wrong approach to SOA reuse?
Dana Gardner: Spike in enterprise ‘events’ spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society
Roland Piquepaille: Secrets of a fresh beer
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