August 15th, 2008
News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage
Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?
Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7
- Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft to push another Windows Update to users … whether you want it o
r not
Get the best graphics card upgrade. Gallery (right).
Robin Harris: 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app next decade storage
Dancho Danchev: Researcher discovers Nokia S40 security vulnerabilities, demands 20,000 euros to release details
Larry Dignan: Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage. Techmeme
Slate: The Google Black Hole
Heather Clancy: It’s 1,100 systems and counting for open-source refurbishment advocates
Jason O’Grady: Psystar requires Acknowledgement of Sale letter to receive restore media (updated 3x)
Matthew Miller: Rumored Palm Treo Pro briefly appears online
- MobileTechRoundup show #143, Acer Aspire One, iPhone 3G, REDFLY price drop
- Garett Rogers: First Android phone on September 17th?
Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
Paul Murphy: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
Andrew Mager: MySpace Data Availability at Lunch 2.0
Richard Koman: Decision on MIT students’ gag order delayed until Tues
day
Gallery: Tools for CSI cybercrime
Roland Piquepaille: Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavements
Dana Gardner: Survey says: Aligning IT operations with business goals increases agility, cuts costs
- Dignan: Forrester: The X Internet is coming (for real this time)
- Michael Krigsman: SAP: Transparent SME ‘deep dive’
Oliver Marks: Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos
Jason O’Grady: More on the iPhone 3G woes (updated)
Deb Perelman: IT is shedding jobs–should you worry?
GigaOm: Why Blogs Need To Be Social
Security researcher demands money from Sun, Nokia
Business Week: What May Be Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches
TechTrader Daily: Here’s An Idea: Stream Sirius Radio On Your iPhone
DocuDrama: Heinen settles with SEC over Apple option backdating complaint
John Morris: Gateway’s new desktop replacement: How much game does $1,400 get?
Sam Diaz: Go ahead and nap, PC. We’ll wake you when we need you.
- Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit
- Yahoo announces Icahn’s board members
- Apple’s former counsel settles with SEC
The Green Enterprise: Cisco
Ryan Stewart: Metadata in Flash Video
Dana Blankenhorn: Intel’s health challenge
Paula Rooney: VMware re-issues ESX 3.5 Update 2 to remove embarassing timebomb
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Next Question: A Whole Lot of Traffic Shaping Going On, With Olympics Video?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple is the tech equivalent of Disney World?
Ryan Naraine: Measuring (not so) recent BIND nameserver patching
John Carroll: Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic
Jennifer Leggio: Bloggers vs. PR - the broken record continues to skip
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