August 11th, 2008
News to know: Microsoft's Fiji; Apple; Green IT
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft (finally) speaks out on ‘Fiji’
- Zack Whittaker: Windows Fiji: a world class failure
- Gallery: Windows Fiji - Screenshots (right)
- Gallery: Windows Fiji - Setup
Garett Rogers: Google Translate for iPhone has lots of potential
Richard Koman: MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subway
- New technique IDs substances, not just fingerprints
- Blink! Scientists move closer to invisibility cloak
News.com: Intel’s Nehalem chips to get ‘Core’ branding
Roland Piquepaille: A new way to recycle electronic circuit boards
- Heather Clancy: Looking to score some LEED points? Site about eco-design materials offers plenty of ideas
- HP reincarnates old ink cartridges as key part for new printer
- Dell throws down the green gauntlet, again. Fulfills carbon-neutrality pledge
- Christopher Dawson: Do you know where your computers are being recycled?
Reuters: Verizon and union reach labor pact and avoid strike
WSJ: IPhone Software Sales Take Off: Apple’s Jobs
Paul Murphy: Second guessing at 3AM
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows broken … I’m surprised it took this long
- Nate McFeters: Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1
- NYT: Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)
Jennifer Leggio: Facebook’s (futile) malware exorcism - can social networks fight back?
Jason Perlow: Do it Yourself Mojave
iPhone Savior: “I Am Rich” Buyer Lashes Out At Media For Calling Her An ‘Idiot’
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: “I Am Rich” walkthrough.
TechRepublic: Stopping the email bloat: Are your business processes and email the same thing?
Jason O’Grady: PwnageTool 2.0.2 is out
- Another day, another App removed: PhoneSabre
- MacBook Pro graphics chips failing prematurely
- FastMac taking pre-orders for U-Charge battery charger
- Andrew Mager: Apple Store finds new ways to make iPhone customers wait
- Larry Dignan: Revisiting iPhone’s app kill switch
Deb Perelman: My Awesome IT Job: Developer, New York Times
TechCrunch: Does Google Have An Organic Growth Problem?
EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google
NYT: AntiPod — The Zune — When the Microsoft Zune digital music player …
Paul Murphy: Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux
Joe McKendrick: Survey: CIOs MIA on SOA
Jason Perlow: Yeah, I needed to fly to San Francisco to see this…
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Banking On The Internet Breaking
Michael Krigsman: Qantas IT problems cause Sydney airport “chaos”
Zack Whittaker: Office Labs ‘target’ busy multitaskers
Foley: Microsoft to stop selling boxed copies of Money Plus
Matthew Miller: Celio REDFLY appears at online retailer stores
Roland Piquepaille: Software to improve AIDS survival?
Dana Blankenhorn: Can VistA be saved?
Larry Dignan: Yahoo bolsters opt-out policy
John Carroll: DVB-H and government overreach
Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
CIA is upbeat on enterprise 2.0
CBS Evening News: Cyber-security at the Olympics
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