June 9th, 2008

News to know: Jobs speaks; Microsoft; Healthline; Enterprise 2.0; HTC

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:10 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology

Notable headlines:

WWDC kick-off:

• Larry Dignan: Jobs’ Apple as a platform mantra to accelerate
• PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac
• Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple’s WWDC this week
• News.com live coverage @ 10 a.m., PDT; 1 p.m. EDT
  
• Jason O’Grady: Stealth iPhones: Stockpiled at Quanta’s Fremont warehouse?
• Leaked: iPhone firmware confirms GPS
• Purported iPhone 3G photos (updated 2x)
• Rumor Mill: All things WWDC
• Infinite Loop: Apple retail receiving shipments, new signs for Monday
• Microsoft: The iPhone envy is starting to show (already)
• TUAW: Rumor: Mac Fusion - a new developer Mac
• Twitter Blog: Twitter+Apple!
• IT Facts: Global smartphone sales up 29% in Q1 2008, iPhone gets 5.3% share of global market
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone 2.0 - Time for some wild speculation!
• TechRepublic: Prediction: Apple’s 3G iPhone will include a price drop
• Poll: When iPhone gets its enterprise-ready upgrade, will your IT department support it?

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation

• Microsoft readies new Producer for PowerPoint rich-media add-in
• Windows Embedded ‘Quebec’ due in 2010

Heather Clancy: Best Buy will take it back. For free. In some places.

Dana Blankenhorn: Healthline launches ad network

Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Thunder live shot, damn we’re good!

Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0: my week ahead

• Oliver Marks: Do we need “Management 2.0″?
• Joe McKendrick: Observations: what’s moving the SOA market these days
• Think Liquidate: Oracle dismantling BEA’s AquaLogic business?
• Michael Krigsman:Killing project vampires

Matthew Miller: HTC’s Teeter shows off how physical feedback can immerse you in a game

• Unboxing and first look at the HTC Touch Diamond
• Image Gallery: Unboxing and first impressions of the HTC Touch Diamond (right)
• MobileTechRoundup show #136, Netbook, Netbook, Netbook
• Qik launches video streaming client for Windows Mobile devices
• First impressions of the Nokia N78 with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and FM transmitter
• Image Gallery: Unboxing and first impressions of the Nokia N78 (right)

Nate McFeters: Black Hat Vegas ‘08: Sneak peek at some of the interesting attacks we will unveil

• Ryan Naraine: Blackmail ransomware returns with 1024-bit encryption key
• Dancho Danchev: Skype patches security policy bypassing vulnerability

Garett Rogers: Google wants your help with their icon

VentureBeat: Freescale spins out its MRAM chip business

Silicon Alley Insider: Slide Says It’s Done Releasing New Facebook Apps

Paul Murphy: Thinking about multicore and software

Zack Whittaker: Free Microsoft web hosting for UK students

• Mobile computing vs. cloud computing

Michael Krigsman: Amazon.com was down; service restored

GigaOm: Powerset vs. Cognition: A Semantic Search Shoot-out

• T-Mobile Sues Starbucks Over Free Wifi

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Back to Basics #1 - Cloning a hard disk. Gallery right

Christopher Dawson: I’m a dad and almost a grad…what’s on my wishlist?

• “Everything gets delivered in an electronic form” - Textbooks, too?
• A good teacher goes a long ways

Larry Dignan: Icahn on Yahoo: I’d hire a ‘talented and experienced’ CEO

Heather Clancy: Waste not. ElectraTherm turns “waste” heat into an electricity source

• Silver Spring Networks boasts smart grid network in action
• Seeking inspiration? Visit “Greenville” for simple ideas on energy-efficient uses for IT
• Harry Fuller: Market disaster on Wall Street plays positive in Silicon Valley
• Two small countries thinking big, and green

Epicenter: AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, May Consider Usage-Based Pricing

News.com: A rallying cry against cyberbullying

Roland Piquepaille: Wirelessly networking cows

• Robofish teams of underwater robots
• A UMan robotic arm

Gmail Labs: Users as guinea pigs

Richard Koman: Risking Another Frontline Disaster

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)

John Carroll: Programming stream of consciousness

Dana Blankenhorn: WiFi guys find hospitals a nice niche

• Diabetes is also heart disease
• Carena creates corporate concierge health service

Dan Kusnetzky: Take Four Cassatt’s Active Response 5.1

MediaFuturist: Warner Music (WMG) Pulls Out Of Last.fm (CBS) - wow!