August 19th, 2008
News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Jason O’Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the “killer app” argument dead?
Ryan Naraine: Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack uTorrent silently patches critical vulnerability
Dennis Howlett: Zoho’s future in Google’s hands?
Mary Jo Foley: Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-en
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- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
- Microsoft rolls out a new high-end, proactive support plan
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Zack Whittaker: A walk through the two new student tools for Office 2007. Gallery (right)
Larry Dignan: IDF: Will your device really get to know you?
John Morris: Before Intel’s big show, AMD launches an attack
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy
Christopher Dawson: My bad day with Windows Server 2003
Paula Rooney: Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches
Yahoo Buzz opens up to all Web publishers
Sam Diaz: Search engines under the spotlight this week
Deb Perelman: Data architects: You’re “hot”
Photos: Dell netbooks revealed (right)
Jason Perlow: Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
Cisco: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC
Sam Diaz: Searching by color to nibble away at Google.
- Garett Rogers: Want to know what key political players are reading?
- VentureBeat: This is a test of the YouTube monetization system…this is only a test.
Ryan Naraine: From Metasploit to Microsoft: Skape goes to Redmond
- Fedora infrastructure breach?
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- BBC: Clipboards hijacked in web attack
Google: Time to “Free the Airwaves” Techmeme
- Richard Koman: With FCC testing due soon, Google pushes white spaces
Ryan Stewart: 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
Oliver Marks: Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools
Paul Murphy: Excel and Basic Accounting Error
Jason O’Grady: Garmin Project Bobcat beta software hits version 2.0.0.8
- Android Developer Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK
- Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?
- Apple acknowledges reception problem in iPhone 3G
- iRibbit Plus eBay client iPhone now available in App Store
Heather Clancy: IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more
- Harry Fuller: Geoengineering may be tech’s answer to global warming
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
Joe McKendrick: The beatings will continue until SOA governance improves
Michael Krigsman: 12 early warning signs of IT failure
Dan Kusnetzky: Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing
Photos: Training for WMD terrorist attacks (right)
Windows Sentinel: Bursting the Vista sales bubble
Diaz: cloud computing - lowercase, please. hold the (TM)
Andrew Mager: An Event Apart 2008
HP: HP Lightens the Load for Business Travelers
Christopher Dawson: Don’t downgrade me to XP!
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile 3G news heats up with HTC Dream and Samsung T919 rumors
Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
BusinessWeek: Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others
Dignan: Gartner: Global IT spending to jump 8 percent in 2008
- Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDs
Richard Koman: Russia, Georgia and NASA
- USPTO rains on Dell’s app for ‘cloud computing’ trademark
- Awaiting decision on new trial in Thomas case
- RIAA settles for $6K in Elektra v. Barker
Ed Burnette: Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe
Photos: How the Victorians did gadgets (right)
Dana Blankenhorn: Get your next knee online
Roland Piquepaille: Hand animation models for surgeons
Silicon Alley Insider: Video Ad Companies: People Love Watching Video Ads!
Ryan Stewart: NBA looking to stream live games
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