July 17th, 2008
News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Google’s second quarter: What to expect
Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame
Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing?
- Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to ‘just do it’
- Robin Harris: The edge-centric Internet
Dancho Danchev: Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Nate McFeters: Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- US spam levels up, state of Illinois is the worst offender
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- It’s a start: Spammer gets jail time
Garett Rogers: New version of Gmail iGoogle gadget
Photos: Solar players show off their wares (right)
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to more testers
Dennis Howlett: SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs
TechCrunch: Is This The Future Of Search?
Sam Diaz: eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a ‘gem’ and Skype a ‘killer’ app
Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.
Dana Blankenhorn: How good is open sou
rce support? Open source college revolution?
Review: HTC Touch Cruise (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple wants Psystar to snatch back Mac clones from customers … and other thoughts
Dana Blankenhorn: Is a wired hospital a better hospital?
TechRepublic: SolutionBase: Enterprise considerations for Microsoft Network Access Protection
Paul Miller: Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity
VentureBeat: What the hell happened to Kleiner Perkins?
AppleInsider: Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor
Paul Murphy: Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage
Heather Clancy: Sun Exec: Your ‘Eco Data Center’ doesn’t have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
Photos: Game on at E3 (right)
Larry Dignan: Apple extends MobileMe subs after rocky launch
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: What MobileMe Could Use …
- Matthew Miller: MobileMe push is limited and subscribers get a 30-day extension
Ed Burnette: Beta version of Hello, Android book is out
Kingsley-Hughes: The myth of Windows ‘Workstation’ 2008
Andrew Nusca: Toshiba ups capacity of 2.5-inch notebook drives to 400GB
- Zack Whittaker: Adeona offers independent stolen laptop tracking
- John Morris: Sony’s Centrino 2 laptop lineup
Matthew Miller: Samsung OMNIA coming to Italy on 22 July
Techdirt: Lawyer Sues Google For Putting His Ads On Parked Domains
Steinert-Threlkeld: Voting For A McCain
Nusca: DISH Network launches satellite, promises more HD channels
Ars Technica: Library of Congress: DRM a serious obstacle to archiving
News.com: Why it matters what Chad Hurley watches
Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: report
Dan Kusnetzky: Transitive’s magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V
Paula Rooney: Ounce Labs finds 2 security vulnerabilities in Spring framework
Seagate: Demand is swell, but we’re playing catch-up on notebook drives
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