News to know: Malware cocktails; Apple; Nokia; Packaged software
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Ryan Naraine: 55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail
Larry Dignan: RIM acquires Torch Mobile: Gets serious about browsers
Apple App Store approvals: The perception game playbook emerges
WSJ: Jobs, Back at Apple, Focuses on New Tablet
Gallery: HTC Click photos
Phil Wainewright: Packaged software, an accident of history
Forrester: Will advances in the Mac OS tip the scales for BYOPC?
- Apple to ship Snow Leopard Aug. 28; Part of the Windows assault
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Snow Leopard to ship Friday
- Jason O'Grady: So what build number is Snow Leopard, exactly? (Updated)
- Snow Leopard confirmed for August 28 release
- Christopher Dawson: Is Snow Leopard worth it in Ed?
- Report: Apple's Fifth Avenue store tops $350M in annual revenue (Updated)
Sam Diaz: A Yahoo face-lift: New look and feel for Mobile, Mail, Messenger and Search
Dana Gardner: IT and log search as SaaS gains operators fast, affordable and deep access to system behaviors
Microsoft calls time on Windows 7 discount in Europe
Smart Planet: VA scandal gives proprietary software a bad name
Heather Clancy: Carbonetworks releases new app for managing emissions info, sustainability planning
Tom Foremski: Worio extends search through social discoverability
Bloomberg: Facebook's Zuckerberg Plans to Increase Staff 50% Amid Engineer Surplus
Zack Whittaker: Mobile TV: Why it stalled and why it won't take off
Dignan: RealNetworks submits Rhapsody app to Apple
Andrew Nusca: Nokia debuts Booklet 3G netbook, 12-hour battery; would you buy?
- Matthew Miller: Is Nokia losing focus by now expanding into the PC market with the Booklet 3G?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Nokia brands a netbook
- Gallery: Nokia Booklet 3G
Engadget: Microsoft delivers OneApp app framework for featurephones
Open source reputations build brand loyalty
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Xbox 360, 30GB Zune, 40-inch Samsung HDTV
Wireless: Examining the race to the bottom
Dan Kusnetzky:How do you look on the Internet? MIT Sociable Media Group's "Personas" shows how you look
Harry Fuller: Weed killer in American drinking water, Part II
Heather Clancy: Consumers to vendors: It's too easy to throw out technology
Corporate BlackBerrys to get Google Apps syncing