August 5th, 2008
News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook
Notable headlines:
Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista
Jason O’Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x)
- Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple’s standards”
Andrew Mager: Search the web visually with Viewzi
Robin Harris: HGST demos 600Gbit/in’ disk density
- News.com: Micron preps 256GB solid state drive
Dancho Danchev: Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers
Ed Burnette: The astounding $14 million Ethernet extender
Andrew Mager: Top 5 apps from iPhone Dev Camp 2
- Jason O’Grady: Another App bites the dust: Box Office/Now Playing
VentureBeat: Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation
Phil Wainewright: SuccessFactors plugs Google Apps into HCM
- Oliver Marks: ‘ESME’: Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment
- Ryan Naraine: Purewire raises funding, adds Noonan to board
- Dana Gardner: SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond traditional enterprise architect role, says Open Group panel
- Dennis Howlett: Social media and ‘green’: two fashion trends to avoid
- Where are the expense management startups and Dirty SaaS?
- Paul Murphy: Who’s responsible?
Larry Dignan: CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants out
Images: Dinosaur sightings: Old search engines (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Intel Larrabee - Will it be AMD/ATI or NVIDIA that gets squeezed the most?
- Andrew Nusca: Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?
- Intel takes aim at Nvidia, AMD’s ATI
Garett Rogers: Google about to launch new Translation service
Harry Fuller: Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?
Laptop Magazine: Lenovo Enters the Mini-Notebook Market with the IdeaPad S10
News.com: Zappos tries computers on for size
Dana Blankenhorn: Linux laptop, make or buy?
Review: Asus Eee Box (black)Sam Diaz: Mobile TV - not dead, just not ready for primetime
Michael Krigsman: Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breach
Heather Clancy: Kill A Watt helps you figure out where you’re wasting electricity
Paula Rooney: LiMo vows to fight on, debuts new mobile handsets from Motorola, NEC, Panasonic
Richard Koman: Judge hints he will declare mistrial in Thomas case
- Second Circuit overturns remote-DVR ban
- FCC’s Comcast ruling: Not unreasonable
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: FCC Chairman: It’s Okay To Discriminate
- Zack Whittaker: NYPD recruit victims of crime, to fight crime
- Thailand halts ‘Grand Theft Auto’ sales after murder
Roland Piquepaille: Toward more efficient fuel cells?
Emerging markets fuel first half chip sales; Memory prices crater
Dan Kusnetzky: Next Generation Datacenter Conference
John Carroll: Should Microsoft become more Apple-like?
MacUser: Rob Enderle does not know the meaning of surrender. Or disclosure.
Matthew Miller: Is Nokia working with the Zune team to support the Zune library?
- MobileTechRoundup show #142, Is the line blurring between feature phones and smartphones?
- Mauku provides Twitter and Jaiku access and updates on your Nokia Internet Tablet
Mitch Ratcliffe: TeachStreet: Starting something big in lots of little places
Computerworld: Mac clone maker’s lawyer hints at antitrust defense
Christopher Dawson: No penalties for colleges that don’t enforce anti-P2P
Andrew Mager: Teens in Tech launches into private alpha
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