August 1st, 2008
News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo
Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes
Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M data center in N.C.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas. 
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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s road to the cloud is paved with parallelism
- Joe McKendrick: More SOA from the cloud, via Redmond
- Microsoft solicits more IE 8 beta testers
- Dana Blankenhorn: Alfresco tackles the SharePoint lock-in with a key
- Microsoft’s Dana Perino problem with open source
Jason O’Grady: iPhone 3G tethering App pulled by Apple
TechRepublic: 10 ways SMBs can cut costs (relatively painlessly) in a slow economy
- Webcomic: Linux — a cautionary tale
- IT leader Jay Rollins: IT needs to quit ‘chucking things over the wall’
Larry Dignan: EDS shareholders approve HP deal; EDS shoots down layoff rumors
- Icahn: I’m not showing up to Yahoo’s shareholder meeting
- Surprise! Motorola posts profit; Isn’t unraveling as handset sales crater
- McAfee acquires Reconnex, inks distribution pacts
Sam Diaz: Will consumer economics have an impact on RealNetworks?
- Roboform launches Enterprise, still wondering if this Mac thing will take off.
- Facebook teams with Intel to set stage for Web 2.0 growth
- Oracle to acquire partner GKS
- Forrester to acquire JupiterResearch for $23 million
ReadWriteWeb: Delicious Finally Launches Version 2.0: Easier, Prettier, Faster
Matthew Miller: Google adds transit directions to S60 and Windows Mobile clients
Dennis Howlett: Mulling the impact of new Reg FD guidance
Paula Rooney: Disasters at Whistler raining on Mozilla’s summer parade
Zack Whittaker: Technology top tips for students
BBC: Google Street View gets go ahead The Smoking Gun: Google: “Complete Privacy Does Not Exist”
John Carroll: Source code and managed runtimes
Andrew Nusca: FireWire 1600, 3200 approved: Now, USB
3.0 or FireWire?
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: AT&T to FCC: We Ban P2P Traffic
FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
Ryan Naraine: CSRF vulnerability allows Twitter ‘follow’ abuse
- Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace
- Oliver Marks: Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5
- Andrew Mager: A tasty new look for social bookmarking
- Tom Foremski: First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit Reports
- Predictive markets: Can they work for the enterprise?
Roland Piquepaille: OmegaTable, a 24-million pixel VR display
Facebook: Facebook Furthers Attack on FriendFeed, Adds Comments to News Feed
Heather Clancy: The Walmart effect: Smaller supply chain companies studying green tech
Paul Miller: Crunchbase meets the Semantic Web
Blankenhorn: Psst. Want a free Electronic Medical Records system?
Symantec is commanding more of your IT budget
Dan Kusnetzky: Neocleus and Endpoint virtualization
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