July 30th, 2008
News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft’s ‘Midori’
- What if Apple had conducted the ‘Mojave Experiment’?
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The ‘Mojave Experiment’ - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it highlight some of the problems with Windows Vista
- Microsoft brings Live Search to cars
Techrepublic: Windows Vista ranked most-used by only four percent of poll respondents
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Sub-$600 general purpose PC, complete with Blu-ray support. 
Gallery (right)
Dell customers unhappy with BIOS band-aid for faulty NVIDIA GPUs
WSJ: Dell Tests Player to Renew iPod Battle
Dancho Danchev: The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit
- Ryan Naraine: Neosploit exploit kit shutters operations?
- Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet
DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
Techdirt: AT&T Says It Will Cut Off P2P Wireless Users; But What About Pandora Users?
Jason O’Grady: 1Password iPhone app released
Vonage imports marketing mojo with new CEO
Joshua Greenbaum: Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business
Ryan Naraine: Fortify warns of configuration weaknesses in SOA deployments
Larry Dignan: HP, Intel and Yahoo team on cloud computing research
Photos: Microsoft’s computer in the round
Heather Clancy: CDW: Cost still outweighs concern in green IT deployment
Michael Krigsman: IT justice: Weighing the scales of failure
- Dan Kusnetzky: Finding the best answer usually requires knowing the right question
- Paul Murphy: The more things change
Jason O’Grady: New MacBooks going glass
TechCrunch: 5% Layoffs Rumored At MySpace (Updated - MySpace Clarifies, Says Performance Driven)
Nate McFeters: Passports worth ‘pound’ 2.5 million stolen in van hijack
John Morris: Dell Studio Hybrid, new Inspirons reviewed
Zach Whittaker: Campaign to abolish crapware
Matthew Miller: Palm announces that over 2 million Centros have now been sold
Image Gallery: A look at the MWg Zinc II Windows Mobile device (right)
GigaOm: BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million Ryan Stewart: Better RIAs from the Ribbit-BT Acquisition
- Ed Burnette: JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week
Deb Perelman: Do techies think their field is worse than it is?
Janice Chen: Pentax announces 10 megapixel digital camera for $140
Hot Hardware: VIA Nano L2100 vs. Intel Atom 230: Head to Head
Paul Miller: Venturing into Semantic Technologies?
Dana Gardner: IBM’s ‘grammar checker’ catches code gotchas and errors in the early development process
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Foxconn owns up to dodgy BIOS crippling Linux
Phil Wainewright: Serena Software’s dash to SaaS
Larry Dignan: Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on Yahoo
Dana Blankenhorn: Are India and China taking over open source?
Andrew Nusca: Report leaked: 23 (yes, 23) Eee PC models in the pipeline
Dana Blankenhorn: The real end game in home automation
Roland Piquepaille: Can light drive a motor?
Matthew Miller: World Wide Web Consortium publishes updated mobile standards
Steve O’Hear: Powering Facebook’s proverbial brain: your Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream data
Wanted: New Alcatel-Lucent leaders to fix merger debacle
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