News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews

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Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloa

• Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
• Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1

Dana Blankenhorn: Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?

Codename of the day: Nitrogen

Dancho Danchev: Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised

• MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising
• Ryan Naraine: Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
• iPhone passcode lock rendered useless
• Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Who's Dumber: Bad Guys  Or Good Guys?

Mitch Ratcliffe: Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Gawker: Bloomberg Runs Steve Jobs' Obituary

EIC Podcast: Apple-Psystar; Cisco vs. Microsoft; DNC; Dell

Joe McKendrick: SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?

Ed Burnette: Suddenly, Android is hot again

Michael Krigsman: MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails

Dennis Howlett: Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated

• Tweetrush for enterprise?
• The Irregular view of all things 'green'
• Hero of the week: Mike McDerment

Matthew Miller: Review: Palm Treo Pro brings thinnest Treo to the world Gallery right.

• Larry Dignan: Palm Treo: The reviews are upbeat; Can a device turn Palm around?
• MobileTechRoundup show #144, Palm thoughts, Acer Aspire One is gone
• DataViz releases Documents To Go for touch screen Windows Mobile devices
• Nokia N79 and N85 announced for October 08 release

Foley: Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front

Paul Murphy: Resurrecting E-voting

Dan Kusnetzky: Datacore - nothing but storage

WSJ: More Artists Steer Clear of iTunes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: "Why do you hate Vista so much?"

• AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.8 downclocks GPU on detecting FurMark
• AMD dual-core "Kuma" Phenom X2 spec in the wild

Christopher Dawson: NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?

• Can you trust kids with a Kindle?
• How do we address the have-nots?

ReadWriteWeb: Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong

TechTrader Daily: TiVo Q2 Net, EBITDA Top Ests; But Q3 Outlook Looks LightSam Diaz: It must be a rough day in Cupertino

Jason O'Grady: Major security hole found in iPhone

• Tapulous developer fired
• Apple bans murderous comic

Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?

• Oliver Marks: 'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.
• Tech Confidential: EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator

Jennifer Leggio: Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'

• Diaz: Keeping the brand - and verb - alive

Harry Fuller: Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first placeDana Blankenhorn: Linux Foundation announces end user summit

• A way to assign copyright globally

TechCrunch: ESPN Helps The Active Network Raise $80 Million More

Video: Hydrogen Road Tour hits the road

Ryan Stewart: Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?

The enterprise: All fun and 'serious games'?

IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead

• Dan Kusnetzky: DataSynapse survey claims HPC leading IT initiative

Roland Piquepaille:MeteoSwiss watches the skies in 3D

Dana Gardner: Databases leverage MapReduce technology to radically juice data scale, performance, analytics

Sam Diaz: Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs

Andrew Nusca: Say goodbye to laser: Microsoft 'Blue Track' mouse discovered (with pic)

Janice Chen: Just-announced Nikon D90 vs. just-reduced Canon EOS 40D

Richard Koman: The Gammima Strain

• Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence

John Carroll: The role of media in the Internet age