July 16th, 2008

News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:01 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Twitter, Virtualization, Channel Management, Mainframes, Telecommuting, Telecommunications, Hardware

Notable headlines:

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar

• Sam Diaz: Complaint: ‘Invaluable good is being eroded’
• Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones?
• Jason D. O’Grady: Apple: See you in court

Larry Dignan: Intel’s second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand up

Dennis Howlett: Intel’s Centrino 2 + WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Intel Centrino 2 lives. Gallery (right)

• Sun: Business isn’t so bad; It’s actually decent
• Paul Murphy: Sun’s ZFS/Flash initiative

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s ultimate many-core destination

• Should the Empire strike back?

EMC connects the Iomega-Mozy storage dots

Dan Kusnetzky: Citrix versus the Xen community

Deb Perelman: What your boss hates about telecommuting

San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. officials locked out of computer network

Ed Bott: Windows Update versus Ubuntu Update

Paula Rooney: Linux 2.6.26 kernel update released

• Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Monday
• Mozilla API aims to make embedding easier
• Citrix’s ‘Kensho’ Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Dana Blankenhorn: The fastest way to learn open source
• Eclipse gets its first Russian member
• Dennis Howlett: Hammering at cost with open source

Jason Perlow: The 5 Stages of iPhone Acceptance

CNBC: SK Telecom in Talks to Acquire Sprint: Sources

TechRepublic: 10 technologies that cybercriminals love to exploit

ISuppli: Seeking Mass Market Acceptance, Apple Stresses Cost Reduction for iPhone 3G

Nate McFeters: David Litchfield on details of one of the critical vulnerabilities from the latest Oracle patch

• Kaminsky to discuss DNS flaw at Black Hat sponsored webcast

News.com: The backstory on Senate’s Google-Yahoo hearing

• Diaz: The (un)Biased Parties Explain Online Ad Biz to Capitol Hill

Dennis Howlett: European telcos squeal: should we care?

Oliver Marks: Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book

• AIIM Market IQ Research

Jason O’Grady: iPhone 3G unlocked with SIM adapter

The Green Enterprise: Frog’s Leap Winery

Michael Krigsman: London Underground’s card system fails

Nate McFeters: Dev Team shows off video of jailbroken iPhone 3G

• Finding the name behind the GMail address

John Carroll: Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web

• Ryan Stewart: Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward

Ryan Naraine: WordPress 2.6 disables remote access, swats 194 bugs

Richard Koman: Viacom, Google cut deal on user data

• Zack Whittaker: Panic over: YouTube viewers are no longer royally screwed
• Garett Rogers: Google to protect user identities, but not employees’

Dana Blankenhorn: The Web can help you take your medicine

Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Bold review: we’ve been rockin’ it for a month

Steve O’Hear: Confirmed: Twitter buys Summize

• Diaz: Twitter And Summize Sitting In A Tree. M-E-R-G-I-N-G
• Jennifer Leggio: Twitter confirms Summize acquisition
• Howlett: Twitter going commercial?
• Techmeme

Roland Piquepaille: NASA tests fiber optic wing shape sensors

Dana Gardner: Serena Software brings business mashups to mainframe application release process

Andrew Nusca: Sony unveils ‘world’s first 16.4-inch notebook’

TechCrunch: Digg Is Pushing More Traffic To Traditional News Sites

Heather Clancy: There’s money up on the roof

Zoho lands Swisscom as partner

Are IT managers buying into ‘green’?