News to know: Securing hotspots; Mac worm; eBay; IBM
Notable headlines:
George Ou: A secure Wireless LAN hotspot for anonymous users.
Ryan Naraine: Mac worm rumors swirl; Dai Zovi ships unofficial Mac OS X patch.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautions. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?
eBay's Skype, PayPal strong; listings down.
SOA demand gives IBM services boost.
Analyst: FTC could block Google-DoubleClick deal.
Photos: New BlackBerry goes Wi-Fi (right).
Ryan Naraine: Mozilla patches Firefox; tells users to avoid IE. Techmeme.
HP, MIT bolster DSpace open-source archives.
Declan McCullagh: FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: CDVU+ … where’s the DRM?
Paul Murphy: Sharpening that personal productivity axe.
Top 10 ways to improve your BI initiative.
Jason o'Grady: iPhone touchscreen differences.
Walmart.com to let customers review merchandise.
David Berlind: Mashup Camp: Twitterlicious loads Twittered URLs into del.icio.us, using a phone. So much geospatial data, so little time (to save the Earth). Mashups to the rescue? Larry Dignan: Intel quarter hints at AMD trainwreck. Robin Harris: Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009.
Computerworld: How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years.
Photos: Zonbu PC--the little, green rental machine (right).
News.com: HP remains No. 1 in PCs.
Dana Gardner: Where are the best SOA synergies now that Rogue Wave is independent? Joe McKendrick: Microsoft unveils its 'Internet Service Bus' vision.
Photos: Bionic hand gets thumbs-up (left).
Roland Piquepaille: BigBelly, a solar-powered trash compactor. Dana Blankenhorn: Blindly applying proprietary metrics to open source. Open source content moves forward.