News to know: Geek sheets; Cuil; Apple; DNS patch
Notable headlines:
Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft way with Apache
Search Engine Land: Cuil Launches — Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?
Larry Dignan: FCC expected to rule against Comcast Aug. 1
GigaOm: Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers? Dignan: Russia as datacenter hub? Not so fast
Garett Rogers: Make your Gmail even more secure
Paul Murphy: WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liability
Dion Hinchcliffe: Twelve best practices for online customer communities
CenterNetworks: Amazon Explains The S3 Outage and Downtime Last Weekend
NYT: Apple's culture of secrecy
- Dan Lyons: PR Rule #1: People who are telling the truth about themselves do not insist on being ‘off the record’
- Jason O'Grady: iSkin ProTouch for your keyboard and mouse
- Apple's MobileMe mea culpa
- Magic bullet fix for your iPhone ills
Jason Hiner: These 10 tools will make you a power user on TwitterRoland Piquepaille:A portable solar-powered ECG unit
- Heather Clancy: New ranking of the most solar-friendly utilities
- Cloudworks shows the green side of managed services
Phil Wainewright: Cast Iron's lifecycle SaaS integration play
TechCrunch: Google Walks Away From Digg Deal
- Silicon Alley Insider: Why Google Isn't Spending $200 Million On Digg
News.com: Dell issues update for Nvidia graphics chip glitch
Ed Bott: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Ryan Naraine: Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- Nate McFeters: Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- Dancho Danchev: How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Best Kit List' for Aug/Sep 08. Gallery (right)
Jennifer Leggio: Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
Mitch Ratcliffe: Video messaging: Every mail a pitch for attention
IT Facts: 32% of North American SMBs have been hit by cybercrime numerous times
- Worldwide PC vendor unit shipment estimates for Q2 2008
- Total spending in network services will grow to $9.1 bln in 2012
NY Times: The Young Turks of Cyberspace
Larry Dignan: Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins
Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blas
Images: NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights
Apple: MobileMe Status
Jason O'Grady: iPhone gas application roundup
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup
- iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available
EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
Zack Whittaker: 10 essential gadgets for students
Kingsley-Hughes: Foxconn snubs Linux users
Deb Perelman:My Awesome IT Job: Researcher and manager, Microsoft
Gartner pitches analysis of PHRs in the clouds
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Richard Koman: Software makers may sue eBay
Michael Krigsman: Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?
Dan Kusnetzky: If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
Oliver Marks: Talent development
Roland Piquepaille: Nanotechnology adds vital enzyme to water
Christopher Dawson: Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more