August 4th, 2008
News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
Notable headlines:
Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2
- Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2
- Hands full? Get the iPhone arm
- Video: Spectrum ZX game montage
Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam
Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, comp-sci — now it’s ’service’ as a science
Jason O’Grady: MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncing
Dana Blankenhorn: JasperSoft outsourced its community forge
NYT: Intel’s Line of Graphics Chips Could Have Broader Uses
Mary Jo Foley: I say crapware; you say ‘performance enhancer’
Jason Perlow:Plat’Home OpenBlockS: Made in Japan
Also See: Plat’Home OpenBlockS266 GalleryPoll: How would you rebrand Live Search?
Sam Diaz: Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level
- Microsoft says Yahoo is rewriting history; Time Warner blocks former AOL chief from Yahoo board seat.
- Yahoo’s Bostock says Board “called the shots” about Microsoft.
- NYT: Yahoo Is Still Searching for, Well, Yahoo
TechRepublic: Learn how tech salesmen get past your gatekeeper
Paul Murphy: Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Ryan Naraine: Rise of the ‘legit’ malware sites
- Did Apple forget to patch something?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Why open source fails application security tests
- The empty debate over open source security
Fred Wilson: Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net ReturnsLinuxWorld hopes to make mobile news
- San Francisco Chronicle: Voting machine gets LinuxWorld tryout
TechCrunch: Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in JapanDeb Perelman: My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA
Garett Rogers: Is Google changing how our brains physically work?
Teleread: Lesson for Kindle fans and other e-bookers? ‘What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys?’ Same danger?
Tom Foremski: Are we seeing a disturbing trend in “blackmail” innovation…?
Nate McFeters: On GIFARs
WSJ: Time Warner Is Ready To Deal AOL Components
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUs
Roland Piquepaille: Robot buoy to track oil spills
Heather Clancy: Potential green tech corporate role models for you to research
- New-ish NEC monitor monitors energy consumption
- Harry Fuller: Community solar: “Why don’t they get it in Washington?”
Paul Miller: Simple semantic mashups from InfoSpace show possibilities
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Paul Murphy: Sony’s Photo Frame
- Most popular digital cameras by customer satisfaction in 2008
- Janice Chen: J.D. Power announces 2008 ratings for best digital cameras
Larry Dignan: FCC slaps Comcast’s wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent
- Giga Om: Warning Sign: Metered Broadband Already a Hassle
- FCC streaming server chokes amid critical Comcast ruling
- Richard Koman: FCC slams Comcast but too little too late?
- Richard Koman: DHS searching laptops at border
- Fixing McCain’s techno-ignorance
Andrew Mager: New Facebook design focuses on status
Andrew Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: Navigate phone trees automatically
Daily Mail: Apple to launch the iPhone ‘nano’ in time for Christmas
Blankenhorn: Practice Fusion brings SaaS revolution to your doc’s office
Toyota tinkers with baby Segways
PaidContent: AOL’s Tacoda To Terminate Inventory Contracts With Publishers; Clarizio: ‘Expanding, Not Shuttering’
Michael Krigsman: IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellers
Zack Whittaker: It’s official: my broadband nightmare is over
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