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Yahoo! frees the Monkey; adds developer challenge

Paul Miller: Yahoo Search's open developer platform SearchMonkey opened its doors to developers this week. Plus, a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative applications was announced.

Companies

Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?

Mary Jo Foley: I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. So if Yahoo investors want in badly enough, they'll probably have to pay.

Communications

Comcast, Cox block BitTorrent 24/7

Richard Koman: Comcast and Cox are blocking BitTorrent traffic, regardless of the time of day or day of the week, students from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems report.

Enterprise Hardware

Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini vs. MacBooks

Jason D. O'Grady: After seeing a Psystar Mac clones beat up on Apple PCs in benchmarks, I decided to try a different test.

Enterprise Software

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

Dion Hinchcliffe: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention.

Security

Safari 'Carpet Bomb' attack information released

Nate McFeters: Nitesh Dhanjani released research potential flaws on the Safari Web browser, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented.

Operating Systems

It's official: XP is coming to OLPC

It's official: XP is coming to OLPC Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's participation in the OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But Microsoft officials finally gave Redmond's official blessing.

Product Review Blogs

VIA reveals world's smallest board

Andrew Nusca: How small is small, you ask? The Pico-ITX form factor squeezes a full feature set into just 10 cm x 7.2 cm, which would fit in the palm of your hand.

IT Management

Stonesoft Security in virtual environments

Dan Kusnetzky: Quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward recently. The latest is Stonesoft Security which makes network security products.

General News

OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The idea is simple. You buy a kit, although there's no word on pricing but the wording on the OCZ Web site suggest that this will be aggressively priced.

iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Apple's iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new...

Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow

It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC...

Mary Jo Foley

DIY phishing kits introducing new features

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but...

Larry Dignan, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

Exclusive: First look at the FastMac U-Charge (updated)

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

Here's an exclusive sneak peak of FastMac's newest product: U-Charge. U-Charge is a portable, standalone charger that connects directly to the battery's terminals to recharge the battery quickly and efficiently....

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Here's something that fans of building their own PCs will be interested in - OCZ has launched a build-it-yourself gaming notebook kit.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google about to launch Flash API for Maps

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don't work, but based...

Garett Rogers

Open Source in 2013

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

The War against Microsoft has been won.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Let's meet in Berlin

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

I'll be in Berlin for a few days, attending SAP's Sapphire conference. I'd love to meet blog readers, so please say hello if you're there. Either send email (use...

Michael Krigsman

Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual...

Dennis Howlett

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received...

Dion Hinchcliffe

Workday: a tipping point?

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests...

Dennis Howlett

Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology....

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

The great advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. That's also its biggest problem, as all those choices offer a correspondingly large chance of encountering...

Ed Bott

6 Gbit drives coming

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra’s end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate’s early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). This...

Robin Harris

Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

The idea that software on the Web is going to get funded by advertising has got it completely the wrong way around. Businesses will use on-demand software to get closer...

Phil Wainewright

Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Over the weekend, Microsoft announced that it was ending its bid to buy Yahoo!. The proposed deal, and its ultimate demise, was the subject of speculation for weeks. Now that...

Ed Burnette

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' (CHRIS) for a total of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4...

Roland Piquepaille

Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But...

Steve O'Hear

Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk...

Matthew Miller

Dell Inspiron desktop now $300

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel...

John Morris

Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release (we just posted a new...

Ryan Stewart

Introduction to BIT

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

BIT (Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture) is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems staff. It is a management guide...

Paul Murphy

Frenemies

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize...

Oliver Marks

Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

'Business is still frozen in a mess of technology silos'

Joe McKendrick

Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

Companies with SOA projects should seek out documents as consumable resources – especially dynamic documents -- and then enlist them as resources for business-process benefit. Combined, SOA and user-friendly documents...

Dana Gardner

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need...

Josh Taylor

Olympus announces new E-520 midrange DSLR update

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Olympus has finally announced the previously leaked E-520, an update to its well-regarded E-510. Like the entry-level E-420, the E-510 is really a minor update to its predecessor.

Janice Chen

Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

If you’re running Windows XP and haven’t yet installed Service Pack 3, Microsoft has included a few incentives that might interest networkers. First, XP Service Pack 3 provides support for...

Rik Fairlie

After a slow start, quad-core is catching on

The Core Truth by John Morris

This week AMD is expected to announce that it has sold more than 1 million quad-core processors, according to the site TGDaily. That sounds about right since the company previously...

John Morris

Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform...

Mitch Ratcliffe

The newspaper's last stand

John Carroll by John Carroll

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy...

John Carroll

Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here),...

Joshua Greenbaum

ABC called looking for an "All American" bachelor...

IMHO by Tom Foremski

I got a call from one of the producers of The Bachelor looking for a new crop. Did I know any bachelors? I said I did. They said they should...

Tom Foremski

HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)

On Sustainability by James Farrar

Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain....

James Farrar

A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing's List of Wonderful Policies. And it is....

Denise Howell

eCPMs for large Web sites down 52% in April 2008

IT Facts by AM

eCPMs for large Web sites (more than 100 mln page views per month) dropped dramatically by 52% from 38 cents in March 2008 to 18 cents in April 2008. Medium...

Alex Moskalyuk

Dialcom: Web Conferencing that Works

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

I’ve complained about all of the things wrong with the way folk use Web conferencing. Now let me tell you about a web conference that went off well. A few...

David Greenfield

Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members...

Paul Miller

Sugar-free Windows, as predicted

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

As Ivan Krsti predicted in his May 13th blog post (see "Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front"), the OLPC XO will start shipping with Windows XP, minus...

Christopher Dawson

Federal charges in MySpace suicide case

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Federal prosecutors have indicted Lori Drew for actions on MySpace that led 13-year-old Megan Meier (right) to kill herself, USA Today reports. She was charged with one count of...

Richard Koman

Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

We know what happens when the poor have no access to the market or the political process. Reproduction becomes the only security, and violence is directed against those seen as...

Dana Blankenhorn

  • All About Microsoft

    Mary Jo Foley

    Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.

  • Between the Lines

    Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow

    Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.

  • BriefingsDirect

    Dana Gardner

    Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.

  • Collaboration 2.0

    Oliver Marks

  • Dev Connection

    Ed Burnette

    Who said computers have to be all work and no play? Software developer and author Ed Burnette shares his unique view of industry trends, technologies, and personalities.

  • Digital Cameras

    Janice Chen

    Gadget geek Janice Chen delivers real-world buying advice of the best gear to get.

  • Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

    Ed Bott

    Get outspoken insights and expert advice on Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products from a source who knows these technologies inside and out.

  • Emerging Tech

    Roland Piquepaille

    Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Roland Piquepaille selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.

  • Enterprise Alley

    Dennis Howlett

    Showcasing the new breed of startup-style vendors who are solving old problems in a fresh way or offering a glimpse into the future of enterprise applications.

  • Enterprise Anti-matter

    Joshua Greenbaum

    Software analyst Josh Greenbaum's opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up.

  • Enterprise Web 2.0

    Dion Hinchcliffe

    Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.

  • Googling Google

    Garett Rogers

    Garett Rogers explores the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world.Google spoilers inside.

  • GreenTech Pastures

    Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

    As the global warming debate rages, Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy chronicle alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.

  • Hardware 2.0

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sieves through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.

  • Irregular Enterprise

    Dennis Howlett

    Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.

  • IT Facts

    Alex Moskalyuk

    Your daily research synopsis is the top resource for business and technology statistics that inform, enlighten and entertain.

  • IT Project Failures

    Michael Krigsman

    Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.

  • John Carroll

    John Carroll

    At the intersection between technology and economic policy, John Carroll brings years of experience as a software developer to bear on the latest issues affecting the technology industry.

  • Laptops & Desktops

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.

  • Lawgarithms

    Denise Howell

    Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.

  • Linux and Open Source

    Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

    Covering all aspects of the shared software, shared processes business model, including open spectrum, an open Internet and the implications of open source values on politics and society.

  • Managing L'unix

    Paul Murphy

    A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.

  • On Sustainability

    James Farrar

    James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.

  • Rational Rants

    Mitch Ratcliffe

    "Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about the constantly changing boundary between media and life, the businesses that live on that border, and the meaning of all this change to society and the economy.

  • Service Oriented

    Joe McKendrick

    SOA promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with SOA, and how to capitalize on this new computing philosophy.

  • Software as Services

    Phil Wainewright

    In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.

  • SOHO Networking

    Rik Fairlie

    Get the latest news and expert views on new wireless networking products and services, plus tips on how to optimize your SOHO network.

  • Storage Bits

    Robin Harris

    Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.

  • Team Think

    David Greenfield

    David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.

  • The Apple Core

    Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

    Apple technology keeps gaining respect in the executive suite, with businesses and in the data center. Jason O'Grady and David Morgenstern deliver critical news and penetrating analysis that managers need to succeed.

  • The Core Truth

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.

  • The Mobile Gadgeteer

    Matthew Miller

    Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.

  • The Semantic Web

    Paul Miller

    Paul Miller offers insight and analysis on the Semantic Web, dissecting the news and showing why it matters to the wider business world.

  • The Social Web

    Steve O'Hear

    From Facebook to MySpace, YouTube to Second Life, social software is reshaping the world we live in. Steve O\'Hear provides daily news and analysis of the emerging social web.

  • The ToyBox

    Josh Taylor

    The latest gadgets and gear -- because even busy business professionals need their playtime.

  • The Universal Desktop

    Ryan Stewart

    The technology and business implications of the next generation of software, rich Internet applications.

  • Tom Foremski: IMHO

    Tom Foremski

    Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.

  • Virtually Speaking

    Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

    Virtualization is a mix of technologies that is changing how datacenters use standard systems. Dan Kusnetzky examines this hotly competitive market and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of each supplier.

  • ZDNet Education

    Christopher Dawson

    News and analysis on IT and computing in the education sector.

  • ZDNet Government

    Richard Koman

    Richard Koman delivers news and analysis on IT and enterprise computing in city, state & federal government.

  • ZDNet Healthcare

    Dana Blankenhorn

    Covering all areas of medical technology, and the public policies under which they're paid for. From networked systems and electronic medical records to gadgets, breakthroughs, and research.

  • Zero Day

    Larry Dignan, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

    Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.

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