August 14th, 2008
News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware
Notable headlines:
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself
Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Are “instant on” notebooks the future?
EIC podcast: Kindle; iPhone; Dell; IDF
Dana Blankenhorn: No retail channel for laptop Linux
Dennis Howlett: SAP BusinessOne v Microsoft: SAP wins for VARs
Sam Diaz: Patent suit targets company being acquired by Microsoft
Digital Daily: Boom: Apple Worth More Than Google
VMware bug causes worldwide disruption
- Ryan Naraine: VMware blames stray code for ‘time bomb’ hiccup
- Letter from VMware CEO Paul Maritz
- Dan Kusnetzky: Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
Images: Where particles, physics theories collide
HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones
- Larry Dignan: Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarter
- Best Buy plays defense with Apple, iPhone
- Jason O’Grady: Best Buy first outsider to get iPhone
- Bits: Best Buy’s Break-Even iPhone Deal
TechRepublic: Poll: Would you trust your users in a hostile network environment?
Matt Asay: Microsoft gets a ‘Blue Screen of Death’ medal in Beijing
The Register: Security researchers’ accounts ransacked in embarrasing hacklash
Paul Murphy: Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
Zack Whittaker: Video commenting hitting the information highway
- Matthew Miller: Qik now available for jailbroken iPhone and iPhone 3G devices
Garett Rogers: Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google Apps
Roland Piquepaille: Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
Heather Clancy: Dabbler or Optimizer? Consulting company comes out with model that rates your org’s green credentials
Mary Jo Foley: Surface tabletops debut at select Sheratons
Silicon Alley Insider: YouTube Not Getting Into Live Streaming, After All (GOOG)
Richard Koman: Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How hot should my NVIDIA GPU be?
Ryan Naraine: Joomla hit by critical password-reset forgery flaw
- The Last PHP 4
- New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via b
otnet - Koman: Georgia cyberattacks just ‘enthusiasts’?
- Defcon’s over but MBTA wants gag order to remain
Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear
Larry Dignan: Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound
Dana Gardner: Borland’s own ‘journey’ to Agile forms foundation for new software delivery management solutions
Matthew Miller: Rumored BlackBerry 8350i to include both WiFi and GPS
Christopher Dawson: Got any old iMacs laying around?
Jason O’Grady: iPhone 3G issues blamed on Infineon chips
- NVIDIA responds to Intel’s Larrabee GPU
- Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)
- Verizon launches Visual Voice Mail
Ryan Naraine: L0pht hacker stars in Discovery Channel TV show
Photos: Prototyping for TV (right)
Dana Blankenhorn: Where 10 percent inflation is the good news
John Morris: Dell shakes up its Latitude laptops
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