June 19th, 2008

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:08 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers

Notable headlines:

Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

• Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama’s Broadband Tide

Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?

• China: A potential, new antitrust battleground for Microsoft
• ‘Sensing’ more about what’s coming in Windows 7

Michael Krigsman: 15 non-technical reasons IT projects fail

Idaho Statesman: Hewlett-Packard keeps mum on whether Boise can expect layoffs

Heather Clancy:  Green IT: Exploring the midsize-company dynamic

• Westinghouse is plugged in. Green Plugged, that is.

Phil Wainewright: Authoria challenges some SaaS mantras

News.com: Microsoft looks to nab Yahoo workers

• Yahoo Mail hopes to lure users with ‘ymail.com’

Dennis Howlett: LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down

• An Irregular experience with Oracle

Paul Miller: Powerset brings semantic Wikipedia search to the iPhone

• Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
• Kingsley Idehen opens Linked Data Planet in New York City

Images: Futuristic PCs trump the beige box

TechRepublic: Podcast: Fujitsu thinks solid-state drive benefits are more hype than reality (for now)

• Five tips to help you deal with people who love to hate consultants
• Innovation: The CIO’s secret weapon

Dana Gardner: HP burnishes vision on how products support both applications and data center lifecycles

• IONA develops beefed up capabilities for financial services, STP automation
• VMWare and HP align products to bring greater management and insight to virtualized environments

Dan Kusnetzky: Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technology

Jennifer Leggio: MySpace answers questions about redesign and reputation

• VentureBeat: Friendster’s growth in Asia could make it the top social network in the world, once again

Silicon Alley Insider: YouTube Shifts Strategy, Tries Long-Form Video

Jason Perlow: Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

• Jason O’Grady: My App Store wishlist (updated)
• Paul Murphy: iPhones, PPC, and DLC

Nate McFeters: Finjan uncovers half a gigabyte of stolen data on crimeware servers

• Dancho Danchev: Photobucket’s DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

Matthew Miller: Xohm WiMAX service to launch in Baltimore in September 08

TechOn: Survey: 91% of Japanese Will Not Buy ‘iPhone’

ABCNews: Will GPS Make Us Dumb?

Larry Dignan: Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?

• IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC. Gallery right
  

Andrew Nusca: Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The day after Download Day

• Firefox 3.0 downloads surpass 7 million
• Preliminary autopsy results on Mozilla’s Download Day …
• John Carroll: Lessons from Firefox 3
• Dana Blankenhorn: My first day with Firefox 3

Zack Whittaker: Will students replace notebooks for handhelds?

• Microsoft double-backs and extends DRM support for MSN Music

Ryan Stewart: Analytics in rich Internet applications and measuring success

Tom Foremski: Can Silicon Valley’s San Jose find its way?

Roland Piquepaille: Robotic Humvees in the sky?

Dana Blankenhorn: Fennec future tied to Android and LiMo

Richard Koman: Call for new privacy law

Steve O’Hear: Reddit: open source not special sauce

Microsoft buys TV ad firm Navic

Social networking on the ‘New York Times’