July 25th, 2008
News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: Escapee ‘Spam King’ dead in apparent murder-suicide
- CBS Denver Video: ‘Spam King’ Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter
Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows ‘Zurich,’ Microsoft’s elastic cloud
- Microsoft to get more ‘Apple-like’ in PC, phone space
- Vista: Whose ‘reality’ do you believe?
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week
- Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year; Buys DATAllegro
- Ballmer seeks to justify bottomless-pit online spending
- Larry Dignan: Forrester: Vista is ‘New Coke’ in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Techmeme
Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up
Deb Perelman: 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear
- Michael Krigsman: 10 considerations to fix failures
John Morris: Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
TechCrunch: AOL To Shutter A Slew Of Products, EVP Kevin Conroy’s Future Uncertain
Ryan Naraine: Apple looking to hire iPhone hacker
- AT&T iPhones exposed to DNS cache poisioning? Or not?
- Speculation over possible Skype backdoor
- Nate McFeters: Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Google’s $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge
TechRepublic: Dell launches high performance 2U desktop that lives in the data center
Paul Murphy: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeInfinite Loop: iPhone Developers scratch heads at new Stanford CS offering (Updated)
Matthew Miller: Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed
- Sony Reader PRS-505 gets a major firmware upgrade
- HTC Touch Diamond ROM update adds 850 MHz support and much more
- Weak US dollar starts to drive up mobile software prices
Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug
Phil Wainewright: How SlideRocket plans to make money
Dana Blankenhorn: Ingres gives Fortify security study a good fisking
TechCrunch: Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And It’s Awesome
NYT: Apple’s MobileMess
Robin Harris: Apple’s coming notebook transition
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
Garett Rogers: Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
- Dana Blankenhorn: Medpedia or Knol, doc?
- Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
- Gallery: Google’s Knol takes on Wikipedia
Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?
Jason Perlow: 2016: ‘You’re watching the Linux Channel’
Heather Clancy: The little wind turbines that could
Zack Whittaker: Students: the broadband troubleshooter
John Carroll: Government, markets and regulation
Richard Koman: Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
Roland Piquepaille: NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
Andrew Nusca: World’s fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?
Ed Burnette: Google + Digg = ?
Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle
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