July 8th, 2008

News to know: Linux; iPhone; Gmail; Insecure antivirus software; SAP

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:31 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Linux, Google Gmail, SAP AG, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, 3G, Cellular Phones

Notable headlines:

Phil Wainewright: SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com

• Dennis Howlett: Ticking bombs in enterprise land

Garett Rogers: Your Gmail is now a lot more secure

Dancho Danchev: Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products

• $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1% market share

• Flash Player and Pentium 2 CPUs don’t play nice together

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft warns of ‘active, targeted’ ActiveX control attacks

Reviews: HP Pavilion dv6915nr; Dell Inspiron 1525 (right)

Mary Jo Foley: Might Microsoft’s Midori be ‘Cairo’ revisited? Ed Bott: Why you’ll have a long wait for Microsoft’s next OS

Heather Clancy: Learning how to use ‘green’ and Microsoft in the same sentence

Jason O’Grady: iFixIt is traveling to New Zealand to be the first to tear down iPhone 3G

• News.com: Midnight serenity for New York’s ‘iPhone hippies’
• MobileMe officially launching on 09 July
• Ed Burnette: iPhone-like interface for Windows Mobile

Michael Krigsman: The nightmare of buying enterprise software

Nate McFeters: C to be the next browser scripting language… wait, what?

• AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner

TechRepublic: Sanity check: Is IT no longer about technology?

• Note to IT: Stop whining
• Does used equipment make sense - even in this economy?
• Paul Murphy: IT success stories

Mitch Ratcliffe: Demographics forging a new Net market: It’s not your kids’ Web

Larry Dignan: Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo’s board

• Techmeme
• Ed Burnette: Microsoft-Yahoo on again?

Jason Perlow: SIMORE dual SIM card — FrankenBerry is ALIVE! Gallery (right)

• How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons

Bits: One Subpoena Is All It Takes to Reveal Your Online Life

Matthew Miller: What are the alternatives to the iPhone 3G?

• Jason O’Grady: Vodafone Portugal’s iPhone 3G rates
• Apple and AT&T selling iPhone 3G at 8am on Friday
• How to replace an iPhone 2G with an iPhone 3G
• The Register: O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away

What’s next for the MacBook Air?

Apple drops Solid State Drive price by US$400

Ryan Stewart: OpenLaszlo 4.1 relased with DHTML support

Photos: Virtual training at Fort Benning (right)

Dana Blankenhorn: Identi.ca fires pure open source against Twitter

• Josh Chandler: Twitter to buy Summize.com!
• Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Twitter About Twitter
• Adam J. O’Donnell: Twitter’s holiday battle with spammers
• Dan Glass: Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast

Christopher Dawson: Vista is OK, says Ubuntu-converted teenager

• Hardcore math at the speed of the Net

Matthew Miller: A new Facebook for Windows Mobile application is launched

News.com: ‘Scrabble’ on Facebook: Too little, too late

Dignan: Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok

Photos: Top 10 newly discovered species (right)

BlackBerry Sync: BlackBerry Thunder Exclusive Shots (Meet the media player…)

Dan Kusnetzky: Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - the Parallels view

Andrew Nusca: Pioneer ups Blu-ray discs to 16 layers, 400GB capacity

Michael Krigsman: Daily Mail employee data stolen on laptop

Roland Piquepaille: Lemon-filled odorless socks?