July 9th, 2008
News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista
Notable headlines:
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal
- Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks
Nate McFeters: Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas ‘08
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft on Vista: ‘The time of worry is over’
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month
- Nate McFeters: Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 ‘important’ bulletins
- Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild
- Joshua Greenbaum: Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark
Michael Krigsman: SaaS failures are ‘betrayals of trust’ [podcast]
Joe McKendrick: Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit
David Morgenstern: Why does Adobe Lightroom look so different than its content-creation cousins?
Deb Perelman: Can’t jump ship fast enough: Your worst IT jobs
Matthew Miller: Checkpoint friendly laptop bags should help with airport screening
- One month later and the HTC Touch Diamond has lost some shine
- Review: Samsung Blackjack II running Windows Mobile 6.1. Gallery right.
- The HP iPAQ 910 has excellent RF reception and is an impressive device
Webware: With Lively, Google tries its own ‘Second Life’
- Second Life: IBM and Linden Lab Interoperability Announcement
WSJ: Google Push to Sell Ads On YouTube Hits SnagsJason O’Grady: Apple touts iPhone 3G and Personal Setup service
- AppleInsider: Spat with Rogers leaves Canadian Apple stores without iPhones
- No lines here: O2 delivering iPhone 3G in UK via courier
- Aviv Raff: Apple hasn’t learned from past security mistakes
- iPhone hacked to run Flash Lite
- Softbank announces iPhone 3G rate plans for Japan
- Dave Greenfield: Research Shows iPhone Penetration to Grow by 164 Percent
- Portuguese iPhone 3G unboxed
Larry Dignan: VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light Mary Jo Foley: Look who’s running VMware now. Paula Rooney: EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V
TechRepublic: Four strategies for dealing with vendors who don’t talk to consultants
Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: Configuring Synergy2 to Share Keyboard, Video and Mouse
IT Dojo: Control temporary Internet files and browser history
Nate McFeters: ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar Dancho Danchev: U.K’s most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily
Andrew Nusca: Acer announces $499 home theater-friendly mini PC John Morris: Are all-in-one desktops a decent deal?
Does Google need a standards office pronto?
Photos: Supercomputing at Oak Ridge
Christopher Dawson: Should free broadband be neutral?
Dana Blankenhorn: The importance of Ratproxy GNOME knows why there’s no Sun up in the sky
John Carroll: Software’s drive to become like television Oliver Marks: Broadcast or communicate?
Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
Jennifer Leggio: Firefox 3 and community — How Mozilla used social networking to set a world record
- If Twitter buys Summize now… are its priorities in order?
- Has Twitter just bought itself a business model?
- Zack Whittaker: Web 3.0 - the future of social networking
- Steve O’Hear: British soccer player falls foul of Facebook’s privacy options
Christopher Dawson: They don’t all really need laptops, do they?
Harry Fuller: The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise
Dan Kusnetzky: PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0
Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft’s bad behavior
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Sony releases PlayStation 3 firmware update v2.41
NVIDIA: Let’s spread the blame far and wide
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