June 18th, 2008
News to know: Firefox 3.0; iPhone apps; Yahoo; LinkedIn; Millennials
Notable headlines:
Jason O’Grady: My most anticipated (announced) iPhone applications
Nate McFeters: Fresh off the press: iPhoneDbg toolkit hotness
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts. 
Gallery (right)
- Ed Burnette: Fake Firefox 3 download links may be hazardous to your PC
- Got Firefox? 503 Service Unavailable (updated)
- Don’t download Firefox 3 yet (updated)
- Larry Dignan: Firefox 3 download fiesta: Ready, set, kaboom
- Dana Blankenhorn: Firefox needs a big bat to set a download record
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3
- TechRepublic: Will Firefox 3.0 rekindle the browser wars?
- Techmeme
Ed Bott: 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2. Rik Fairlie: How to repair a dropped Wi-Fi signal on Vista laptops
TechCrunch: Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
- Boomtown: Yahoo Boardroom Brawl?
- Charles Cooper: Voting with their feet? File this one under ‘stampede’
Zack Whittaker: The killer apps of academia
Michael Krigsman: Graphing the triple constraints of IT failure
Richard Koman: Government 2.0: Focus is on IT recruiting
Techmeme: LinkedIn raises $53 million
Larry Dignan: Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT?
Dan Farber: Facebook and Google still not ready to connect friends
Christopher Dawson: Mac and PC are at it again
Paul Murphy: A visit to the Microsoft Newseum
Jennifer Leggio: Kyte and Qik engaged in neck-and-neck streaming video race
Jason O’Grady: Western Digital releases 7200RPM 320GB n
otebook drive
- John Morris: How Toshiba’s 128GB SSD-equipped Portege; R500 stacks up
- Laptop wars: Toshiba goes thin with 128GB solid state drive
- Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops (right)
Boomtown: BoomTown’s Short List of Yahoo CEOs (Sorry Jerry, but Fortune Favors the Prepared)
Dana Gardner: HP has its sights set on swift yet cost-reduction-intense data center transformation projects
- CIOs need an efficiency mastery lifeline, say HP Software Universe keynote speakers
- HP marries change management and problem isolation functions into an automated data center efficiency partnership
- HP’s Duncan Campbell on energy efficiency and automation in next generation data centers
- Disparate HP user communities unite under Connect banner at HP Technology Forum event
Jason Perlow: Parallels releases its Hypervisor — on the Mac
David Morgenstern: Nova Media restores Leopard’s missing Bluetooth phone functions
TechCrunch: Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down
Harry Fuller: Too green? Too much information? Global warming a natural process? Give up yet?
Mark Cuban: Hulu is kicking Youtube’s Ass
AP: Best Buy 1Q profit falls but beats expectations
Michael Krigsman: IRS rebate checks: more problems
Ryan Stewart: Apple finally goes RIA
- Adobe: We’re emulating Flash for the iPhone
- Matt Asay: To avoid Flash lock-in, Apple looks at SproutCore
- Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focus
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
Bank of America check card data co
mpromised
Joe McKendrick: Analysts: Cloud computing means new role for service registries
Silicon Alley Insider: EA Still Trying To Wait Out Take-Two. It May Be Working
Dan Kusnetzky: Stratus Avance a new take on clustering
Photos: Mars lander discovers white stuff (right)
TechRepublic: A .NET primer on reference types and value types
Roland Piquepaille: Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level
Tallying up the benefits of EPEAT purchasing
Dana Blankenhorn: Gerontologists see something worse than death
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