News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve
Notable headlines:
David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears’ vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.
Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps. Techmeme.
Donna Bogatin: Google's love hate relationship with the desktop.
Dan Farber@D5:
Mahalo: A human-powered search directory. Related: Mahalo's launch statement.
Steve Jobs touts iPhone and Apple TV. Related: YouTube to be streamed via Apple TV. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Scoble: AppleTV "left the door open to its competitors."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat. News Corp.'s Peter Chernin view on MySpace.
Palm's Linux appliance for cell phones. Related: Will Palm's Foleo sell? Gallery (above). Techmeme. Is Foleo Palm's folly?
Ryan Naraine: Mozilla patches ‘critical’ Firefox memory corruption crashes. Remote vulnerability in high-profile Firefox extensions.
George Ou: Free Wi-Fi Driver vulnerability auditing tool released. Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the cores.
HP opens college lab in China for media search.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers a trio of new Windows Live betas. Larry Dignan: Yahoo CTO resigns. Eleven years, 12,000 Yahoos and one great ride.
Garett Rogers: Google acquires Panoramio. Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt.
Computerworld: Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista will drive users to 4GB RAM, and the 4GB limit will driver users to 64-bit. Reuters: Motorola says to cut 4,000 more jobs.
TheStreet.com: Novell tops estimates.
IT's future--how about 20-hour work weeks?
Review: Kodak EasyShare EX-811 Digital Picture Frame (right).
Telcos change direction on Net phone services.
IBM to cut almost 1,600 more jobs. David Berlind: Monkcast #2: IBM retrenches around SOA.
Andrew Keen: Does Internet democracy work?
AppleInsider: Most AT&T stores expecting less than 40 iPhones at launch.
Images (right): Alphabet makes words colorful.
Saugatuck: why SOA adoption is at a 'crawl.'
Larry Dignan: The DRM-free music era begins; What's next for Apple? Apple statement. iTunes goes DRM-free with EMI. Denise Howell: Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses.
Techmeme: Last.fm bought by CBS.
George Ou: Massive 'planned' network outage for AT&T-SBC. Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'.