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• VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits

  Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence ...

  Tags: Management, Financial Services, Financing Startups, Venture Capital, Mark Cannice, Entrepreneurship, Confidence, IPO, VC, Investment

  Jul 09, 2008 3:39 AM PDT

• Mossberg, Pogue and Baig pass judgment on the iPhone 3G

  The top trio of Apple fanboys (Mossberg, Pogue and Baig) pass judgment on the iPhone 3G. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Apple Inc., Battery, Pogue, Baig, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 09, 2008 3:27 AM PDT

• Parallels Operating System Virtualization for HP Integrity Line

  An announcement when out last week that Parallels and HP have chosen to collaborate and offer Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to HP Integrity server customers. The goal of this partnership is ...

  Tags: OS Virtualization, Operating System, Dan Kusnetzky, Hardware, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, HP Integrity, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linux

  Jul 09, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?

  Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may ...

  Tags: Virtual World, Larry Dignan, Avatar, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 2:08 AM PDT

• News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

  Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, HP iPAQ 910, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics, Domain Names, 3G, Cellular Phones, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 2:06 AM PDT

• Harry Potter and the da Vinci book of Soduku

  The really weird part about a title combining Harry Potter with Da Vinci and Suduko is that there's an open source context in which the linkage makes some sense - ...

  Tags: Open Source, Paul Murphy, Internet, Blogging, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Title, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Should free broadband be neutral?

  A lot of politicians are bandying about the idea of licensing unused or underutilized radio frequencies to create a free, nationwide broadband network. As the US gets repeatedly dinged for ...

  Tags: Telecommunications, Network Technology, Christopher Dawson, Networking, Broadband, Broadband Internet

  Jul 08, 2008 11:04 PM PDT

• Summer reading for kids

  A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included ...

  Tags: Kid, Christopher Dawson, Slashdot

  Jul 08, 2008 10:41 PM PDT

• Don't doubt Deputy Dan

  Well, it would seem that Tom Ptacek may have figured out something to do with Dan Kaminsky's earlier DNS flaw, and this may actually be the vulnerability to fear that ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, Networking, Internet, DNS, Domain Names

  Jul 08, 2008 10:15 PM PDT

• MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash

  I was 90% sure I was going to buy an iPhone 3G on Friday, but a couple of things changed my mind tonight and I decided I will not be ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, MSM Apple iPhone Review, Cellular Phones, Matthew Miller, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 08, 2008 10:12 PM PDT

• The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise

  That's the bottom line out of the G8 Summit in Japan where the world's eight biggest economies are meeting. They have pledged to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By ...

  Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller, Agreement, Global Warming

  Jul 08, 2008 9:37 PM PDT

• Late breaking news: Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild

  From Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft: Microsoft Security Advisory (953635) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: July 8, 2008 Microsoft is investigating new ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Software, Security, Office Suites, Word Processors, Vulnerability

  Jul 08, 2008 8:40 PM PDT

• The HP iPAQ 910 has excellent RF reception and is an impressive device

  One week ago I wrote about my first impressions of the HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger. I have been using it steadily every day since then and actually found something ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP iPAQ 910, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Hardware, Compaq iPAQ, iPAQ 910, Device

  Jul 08, 2008 8:18 PM PDT

• Mossberg's review of iPhone 3G: Newer, Faster, Cheaper

  The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks and today posted his review. As you'd expect, he loves the "between three ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Mossberg, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Jul 08, 2008 8:16 PM PDT

• EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V

  It takes one to know one.  At least that's what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hardware, EMC Corp., Paula Rooney, VMware Inc., Storage

  Jul 08, 2008 7:38 PM PDT

• Kaminsky and Ptacek comment on DNS flaw

  Well, well, well, what a day for security news! I got a chance to get the scoop word of mouth from Dan Kaminsky of IOActive (pictured above [image courtesy of ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, Nate, Flaw, Networking, Internet, Security, DNS, Domain Names

  Jul 08, 2008 5:47 PM PDT

• Storm Worm says the U.S have invaded Iran

  Right after the U.S Independence Day fireworks, Storm Worm latest campaign launched a couple of hours ago, is back online this time attempting to once again exploit client-side vulnerabilities, this ...

  Tags: Spam, Worm, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Iran, Viruses And Worms, Security, Phishing

  Jul 08, 2008 5:03 PM PDT

• Congress looks at next-gen ad networks

  The Center for Democracy and Technology will testify Wednesday about the privacy concerns over ad networks like NebuAd, which has come under fire over a deal with Charter Communications to ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Network, Ad Network, Richard Koman, U.S. Congress

  Jul 08, 2008 4:15 PM PDT

• Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit

  'Many SOA attempts amount only to a less efficient method of doing EAI' by Joe McKendrick

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, SearchSOA, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Jul 08, 2008 3:17 PM PDT

• SaaS failures are 'betrayals of trust' [podcast]

  Software as a service SaaS deployments have become an increasingly significant part of the enterprise software environment. Given this growing importance, it's time to examine IT failure in the SaaS ...

  Tags: SaaS Failure, Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Software-as-a-service, Podcast, Emerging Technologies, Michael Krigsman, Software

  Jul 08, 2008 3:06 PM PDT

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