July 15th, 2008
News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video
Notable headlines:
Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
- Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase
- Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer
Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source
- Dana Gardner: Amazon helps boost Engine Yard’s cloud computing efforts with capital infusion
- CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spending
News.com: After miscue, Centrino 2 takes the stageMary Jo Foley: More new Microsoft codenames, A to Z
Ryan Naraine: On deck from Oracle: 45 critical database, server patches
Larry Dignan: Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees Mary Jo Foley: Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?
TechRepublic: A tool running in Windows can save data lost in Linux
- How to develop and maintain client relationships
- Hands on with the June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extensions Library
Andrew Mager: Sneak peek at the new Unicode-friendly PHP6
Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Palm Treo 800w with integrated WiFi and GPS. Image gallery (right)
Matthew Miller: iPhone how to: Take screenshots on your 2.0 iPhone
- Jason O’Grady: Tearing down the iPhone 3G
- Apple moves 1 million iPhones in 3 days; 39 percent of buyers own PCs. Techmeme
- Mobile software Monday: My top 10 iPhone applications
- Jennifer Leggio: Hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G may be the trigger
- Jason O’Grady: Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloaded
- Steve O’Hear: Last.fm app debuts on iPhone and iPod touch (video)
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Best Apple App Store apps
- ReadWriteWeb: iPhone: The New Personal Computer
- 27 international carrier iPhone 3G rates compared
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Ad-to-ad combat: Covering your Web tracks
Paul Murphy: Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking’s end?
Howlett: First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?
Ryan Stewart: Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics
- Larry Dignan: Netflix grabs more distribution via Microsoft’s Xbox
- Jason Perlow: DIRECTV, what about “Make the products work” and “Keep the customers happy” do you not understand?
- Dennis Howlett: Cruel to be kind: FastWork.tv revista
- Jeff Jarvis: Tear down the broadcast towers
Blankenhorn: Europe seeks to brand open source quality
Mitch Ratcliffe: Amanda Chapel, ‘Strumpette’ needs some tough love
Richard Koman: eBay wins big in federal court, but Europe is a different story Reuters: eBay scores victory over Tiffany in Internet trademark case
Canadian court shutters torrent tracker
Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA slashes price of GTX 260 and 280 GPUs
Heather Clancy: Another mobile phone recycling resource
Roland Piquepaille: Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?
The Register: Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun’s flagship Unix servers
Dan Kusnetzky: VDIworks, Microsoft System Center and You?
Zack Whittaker: Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)
Engadget: Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus add-on makes the Wii Remote a true 1:1 motion controller
Janice Chen: Casio announces super-slim, wide-angle digital camera with 4x zoom and 3-inch LCD
Gardner: Borland Management Solution offers visibility into software lifecycle delivery and refinement
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