August 12th, 2008
News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google’s Blogger amid Russia onslaught
- Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack
- Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows
- News.com: Defcon ends with researchers muzzled, viruses written
Ed Bott: Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
Ryan Naraine: Google releases open-source crypto toolkit
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: MobileMe: Still Not Up (To Anyone’s Standard)
John Morris: HP announces three new EliteBooks
Jennifer Leggio: Lijit secures $7.1 million series C roundChristopher Dawson: Did the big boys really kill OLPC? Times of London: Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
News.com: AMD to Nvidia: Two chips are better than one
Richard Koman: Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web
- Christopher Dawson: Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)
Mary Jo Foley: Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?
Heather Clancy: Cree LED light components getting littler
Garett Rogers: Gmail locks out users for an hour
- Michael Krigsman: Gmail is down
- Gmail blog: We feel your pain, and we’re sorry
- Ryan Stewart: Outage of critical systems shows a hybrid web-desktop approach is still the best
Deb Perelman: Compete away, whether you live in California or not
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The Olympics Watch: Not That Much
- Ryan Stewart: Numbers on the NBC’s Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Jason Perlow: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- Gizmodo: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting
TechRepublic: 10 ways to help your users enhance their online credibility
John Morris: Via stops making chipsets for Intel, AMD systems
Review: Creative Zen Zi-Fi
News.com: Apple, AT&T mum on iPhone 3G issues
Larry Dignan: Will it be a Kindle Christmas? Amazon: Still trailing eBay in third party sales but…
Steve O’Hear: BlueWhaleMail: Facebook messages “pushed” to your cellphone
Dana Gardner: Data services provide catalyst for SOA, set stage for cloud-based data models
Boy Genius Report: Motorola Alexander’s non-QWERTY counterpart, Atila
Roland Piquepaille: Solar nanoantenna energy collectors
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source offers a seamless transition to work
Sam Diaz: Netscape keeps users; Vista struggles to grab new ones
Paul Murphy: When equivalence is the wrong question
Richard Koman: Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy laws
Matthew Miller: Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile
- Jason O’Grady: Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded
- Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch
- Olympic medal count iPhone app
Dennis Howlett: An iGeneration view of TLAs
- Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us
- Zack Whittaker: Unique corporate service relies on good human nature
Dana Blankenhorn: Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?
Forbes: Servers: Why Thrifty Isn’t NiftyMatthew Miller: Rumored Palm Centro2 is simply a marketing student’s mock-up
TechCrunch: DEMO v. TechCrunch50 Takes A Nasty Turn With Charges Of Plagiarism
Michael Krigsman: Heart pacemakers vulnerable to attack
Video: Will Wi-Fi fly with travelers?
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