July 31st, 2008
News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream
Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search home page; refreshes Live Mesh preview
Gallery: Configuring Virtual PC 2007 to run Windows 3.11 (right)
Paul Murphy: Considering a Windows Innovation Demo
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Network neutrality & Google’s openness before the FCC
- Richard Koman: FCC set to slap Comcast’s wrist
- WSJ: FCC.politics.gov
- NYT: OPEC 2.0
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar retains Apple-beating law firm
- White iPhone 3Gs prone to hairline cracks?
- AppleInsider: Apple warns resellers of Mac and iPod drought, says load up now
- TechRepublic: Apple dupes iPhone users into beta testing iPhone 3G
NYT: China to Limit Web Access During Games
Jason O’Grady: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 2
- Aperture 2.1.1 feature: better manners on import
- David Morgenstern: A tags-eye view of Apple’s changing technology focus
- Robin Harris: Why there’s no Mac tablet this quarter
Nate McFeters: McAfee SiteAdvisor blocks SANS
- Gary McKinnon ‘world’s most dangerous hacker’ to be extradited
- Dancho Danchev: HD Moore pwned with his own DNS exploit, vulnerable AT&T DNS servers to blame
- OS fingerprinting Apple’s iPhone 2.0 software - a “trivial joke”
- Dino Dai Zovi: Evolution is punctuated equilibria
Deb perelman: Signs you might not be IT management material
WSJ: Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm
- Garett Rogers: Omnisio snapped up by Google for YouTube
- Bloomberg: Mediaset Sues Google, YouTube, Seeking EU500 Million
EIC podcast: Dell’s music plans; Microsoft’s Mojave; Broadband wars
Gallery: A dragonfly that spies
Larry Dignan: Akamai: Broadband consumption hampers outlook
- Sam Diaz: A bad day for Garmin; Wall Street hammers stock
- Comcast sees economic headwinds; Can anyone win broadband war?
- Reuters: UPDATE - Symantec profit rises as it signs more big deals
Jennifer Leggio: SEC unanimously approves use of corporate blogs to meet Reg FD requirementsJoe McKendrick: Any common ground between SOA and Web 2.0?
‘Star Trek’ communicators free up doctors’ time
Dennis Howlett: Intacct reports record growth: the analysis
Dave Greenfield: Seven Pitfalls of Predictive Markets
TechRepublic: 10 ways to increase the productivity of your programmers
PhysOrg.com: E-Textile Pants Identify Fall-Prone Elderly
Jennifer Leggio: BreakingPoint adds real-time Twitter traffic protocol to network equipment testing tools
Michael Krigsman: Bank blames user; gets caught
Dana Blankenhorn: Call for a Linux laptop
- KDE 4.1 released
- A single database can save a world of hurt
- Does this Internet make your kid look fat?
- Android and Symbian won’t merge
- Does your OS matter in a cloud?
Tom Foremski: A glimpse into the future of the Internet
Matthew Miller: Qwest now offering Verizon Wireless services
Heather Clancy: Kelley names 2008’s greenest cars. Or, another reason to buy a way-cute Mini Cooper.
- Roland Piquepaille: Generating electricity with polymers?
- Harry Fuller: Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate them
- Photos: Repair shop caters to hybrids (right)
- Christopher Dawson: And on another laptop front…
- Andrew Nusca: External HD cases turn your drive into Samuel L. Jackson
Amazon aims to make Mechanical Turk more business friendly
Talkback of the day: Propeller heads unite
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