June 20th, 2008
News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Yang’s recovery runway: Months to days (and board should go too). Techmeme
- Google’s display ad gravy train rests with YouTube
- Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames ‘human issues’ for Bluetooth patch hiccup
- Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.0 flaw, says risk minimal
- About-face: Apple patches Safari ‘carpet bombing’ bug
- Dancho Danchev: Security breach hits DivShare, unauthorized access to its database
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
- Nate McFeters: 2008 Pwnie Awards
EIC podcast: Yahoo; Firefox 3, Gates’ last week; Millennials
Paula Rooney: Mobile Firefox Fennec critical to maintaining Mozilla’s momentum
Dana Gardner: Interview: HP Software’s David Gee on next generation data center trends and opportunities
- Interview: HP’s BTO chief Ben Horowitz
- Heather Clancy: IBM lays claim to ‘greenest’ data center title, at least here in North America
- Video: It ain’t easy being ‘green’
Garett Rogers: Google needs to rethink its customer service strategy
Michael Krigsman: Lame NHS loses 31,000 patient records
Robin Harris: Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard
Ryan Stewart: Practice Fusion shows off ‘Google Apps’ for doctors
Mitch Ratcliffe: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
Jennifer Leggio: Corporate intranets via SaaS are the future but are not without risk
Dana Blankenhorn: GPL divide still lives, one year on
Ed Bott: Good Microsoft wins one
Boomtown: Facebook’s Matt Cohler to Benchmark Silicon Alley Insider: Bebo: Facebook Redesign’s Could Screw Us* (TWX)
Tech Trader Daily: Apple: Oppenheimer Says AT&T iPhone Subsidy Is $325 Apple 2.0: iPhone suppliers expect to ship 10 million units in Q3 alone
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Radeon HD 4850 - Another GPU that fails to keep up with the aging 8800 GTS
Zack Whittaker: Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda
Andrew Nusca: Study: Early gadget adopters ‘conceited’ and ‘arrogant’
- Rik Fairlie: HP MediaSmart Connect available for pre-order
Oliver Marks: Openness
Gallery: Apple opens store in Sydney (right)
Dan Kusnetzky: Views from VMware’s Analyst Day
Dana Blankenhorn: Will Reddit open source decision change publishing?
James Farrar: Vodafone’s Big(ish?) Adventure
Michael Krigsman: IT catfight in Portland, OR
Overcoming hurdles to unified communications technology
Jason O’Grady: iPhone developers roundtable
- Christopher Dawson: So what about mobile labs?
- Matthew Miller: Palringo IM client now available for BlackBerry devices
Apple: iTunes hits 5 billion songs sold mark
IDG: EBay Boosts Fraud Protections for PayPal Users
Photos: A detour to Geek Squad City
HP to reorganize printer business
How to maximize performance in virtualized environments
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