Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

By | June 19, 2008, 2:08am PDT

Summary: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama’s Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime? China: A potential, new antitrust battleground for Microsoft ‘Sensing’ more about what’s coming in Windows 7 Michael Krigsman: 15 non-technical reasons IT projects fail Idaho [...]

Notable headlines:

Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama’s Broadband Tide

Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?

Michael Krigsman: 15 non-technical reasons IT projects fail

Idaho Statesman: Hewlett-Packard keeps mum on whether Boise can expect layoffs

Heather Clancy:  Green IT: Exploring the midsize-company dynamic

Phil Wainewright: Authoria challenges some SaaS mantras

News.com: Microsoft looks to nab Yahoo workers

Dennis Howlett: LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down

Paul Miller: Powerset brings semantic Wikipedia search to the iPhone

Images: Futuristic PCs trump the beige box

TechRepublic: Podcast: Fujitsu thinks solid-state drive benefits are more hype than reality (for now)

Dana Gardner: HP burnishes vision on how products support both applications and data center lifecycles

Dan Kusnetzky: Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technology

Jennifer Leggio: MySpace answers questions about redesign and reputation

Silicon Alley Insider: YouTube Shifts Strategy, Tries Long-Form Video

Jason Perlow: Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

Nate McFeters: Finjan uncovers half a gigabyte of stolen data on crimeware servers

Matthew Miller: Xohm WiMAX service to launch in Baltimore in September 08

TechOn: Survey: 91% of Japanese Will Not Buy ‘iPhone’

ABCNews: Will GPS Make Us Dumb?

Larry Dignan: Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?

Andrew Nusca: Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The day after Download Day

Zack Whittaker: Will students replace notebooks for handhelds?

Ryan Stewart: Analytics in rich Internet applications and measuring success

Tom Foremski: Can Silicon Valley’s San Jose find its way?

Roland Piquepaille: Robotic Humvees in the sky?

Dana Blankenhorn: Fennec future tied to Android and LiMo

Richard Koman: Call for new privacy law

Steve O’Hear: Reddit: open source not special sauce

Microsoft buys TV ad firm Navic

Social networking on the ‘New York Times’

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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