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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA

By | July 30, 2008, 1:59am PDT

Summary: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft’s ‘Midori’ What if Apple had conducted the ‘Mojave Experiment’? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The ‘Mojave Experiment’ - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it highlight some of the problems with Windows Vista Microsoft brings Live Search to cars Techrepublic: Windows Vista ranked most-used [...]

Notable headlines:

Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft’s ‘Midori’

Techrepublic: Windows Vista ranked most-used by only four percent of poll respondents

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Sub-$600 general purpose PC, complete with Blu-ray support. Gallery (right)

Dell customers unhappy with BIOS band-aid for faulty NVIDIA GPUs

WSJ: Dell Tests Player to Renew iPod Battle

Dancho Danchev: The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit

DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild

Techdirt: AT&T Says It Will Cut Off P2P Wireless Users; But What About Pandora Users?

Jason O’Grady: 1Password iPhone app released

Vonage imports marketing mojo with new CEO

Joshua Greenbaum: Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business

Ryan Naraine: Fortify warns of configuration weaknesses in SOA deployments

Larry Dignan: HP, Intel and Yahoo team on cloud computing research

Photos: Microsoft’s computer in the round

Heather Clancy: CDW: Cost still outweighs concern in green IT deployment

Michael Krigsman: IT justice: Weighing the scales of failure

Jason O’Grady: New MacBooks going glass

TechCrunch: 5% Layoffs Rumored At MySpace (Updated - MySpace Clarifies, Says Performance Driven)

Nate McFeters: Passports worth ‘pound’ 2.5 million stolen in van hijack

John Morris: Dell Studio Hybrid, new Inspirons reviewed

Zach Whittaker: Campaign to abolish crapware

Matthew Miller: Palm announces that over 2 million Centros have now been sold

Image Gallery: A look at the MWg Zinc II Windows Mobile device (right)

GigaOm: BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million Ryan Stewart: Better RIAs from the Ribbit-BT Acquisition

Deb Perelman: Do techies think their field is worse than it is?

Janice Chen: Pentax announces 10 megapixel digital camera for $140

Hot Hardware: VIA Nano L2100 vs. Intel Atom 230: Head to Head

The curse of the BlackBerry

Paul Miller: Venturing into Semantic Technologies?

Dana Gardner: IBM’s ‘grammar checker’ catches code gotchas and errors in the early development process

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Foxconn owns up to dodgy BIOS crippling Linux

Phil Wainewright: Serena Software’s dash to SaaS

Larry Dignan: Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on Yahoo

Dana Blankenhorn: Are India and China taking over open source?

Andrew Nusca: Report leaked: 23 (yes, 23) Eee PC models in the pipeline

Dana Blankenhorn: The real end game in home automation

Roland Piquepaille: Can light drive a motor?

Matthew Miller: World Wide Web Consortium publishes updated mobile standards

Steve O’Hear: Powering Facebook’s proverbial brain: your Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream data

Wanted: New Alcatel-Lucent leaders to fix merger debacle

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Larry Dignan

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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