August 26th, 2008
News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Rouge
Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- Twitter’s “me too” anti-spam strategy
- Ryan Naraine: Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw
- New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundling
Sam Diaz: Does Big Brother know where you’ve been surfing?
Jason Perlow: One Router to Connect Them All
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to roll out more granular ‘porn mode’ with IE 8
- Zack Whittaker: Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000
Review: Maxtor Central Axis NAS server (right)
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands
- News.com special report
- Ryan Stewart: Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move
- Richard Koman: Google brings election mobile as reporters become irrelevant
- Larry Dignan: Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?
- Andrew Nusca: Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush
Deb Perelman: 5 ways to unwire your holiday weekend
Michael Krigsman: Office 2.0: ‘conversations’ prevent IT failure
- Oliver Marks: Office 2.0: Eating our own dogfood…
- Dennis Howlett: Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?
- SAP: show the love your customers crave
- Get those ToS sorted
Jennifer Leggio: The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and security
Seattle Post Intelligencer: Amazon.com buys Shelfari, a startup for book lovers Christopher Dawson: Amazon eyeing up the textbook market? About time
Larry Dignan: Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
Video: Big tech on campus
Dana Blankenhorn: When is open source just throwing it all away?
Android Community: Android-powered T-Mobile G1 Engineering drawings!GP: Iphone 3G antenna test
Jason O’Grady: 2008 MacBook Pro concept
Dan Kusnetzky: XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitors
Preview the new FriendFeed design
Heather Clancy: Tech distie Ingram Micro teams up with EPEAT
- Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray
- Harry Fuller: Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- There’s one fossil fuel that is becoming more abundant, thanks to technology
Gizmodo: Leaked Document Shows Verizon’s Psyops Anti-iPhone Propaganda
Paul Murphy: An argument about switching costs
The Social: Facebook appears to be controlling ‘wall spam’
IT Dojo video: Common mistakes to avoid when you’re installing Linux software
AMD slims down, sells digital TV business to Broadcom
TechCrunch: No Matter How NBC Spins It, Olympics Web Strategy Comes Up A Loser
Robin Harris: IDF and the new Mac notebooks
Janice Chen: Canon catches up to the rumor mill and announces EOS 50D
Dana Blankenhorn: What good are gross hospital statistics?
Ed Gottsman: Something you’re going to want to smack
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