News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
- Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition
- Techmeme
EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards
Nate McFeters: Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
- Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP
- With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw
Jason O'Grady: WWDC08: Tickets sold out
TechRepublic: Who are the top three most important tech vendors for your company?
Mary Jo Foley: Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?
- First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
Jason Perlow: Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!
Larry Dignan: Dell: We're greener than HPHeather Clancy: OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
Garett Rogers: Google about to launch Flash API for Maps Google accidentally enables ratings on some Blogger accounts
Mark Cuban: Beating Google ?
Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo. WSJ: Icahn Will Launch Proxy Contest To Unseat Yahoo's Entire Board
Christopher Dawson: UC Law bans classroom web access
Paula Rooney: Fedora 9 ships, openSuse 11 due June 19
Paul Murphy: What's wrong at OpenSolaris
Michael Krigsman: UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
AppleInsider: AT&T to boost 3G speeds more than fivefold by 2009
Dana Gardner: HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service
Larry Dignan: Workday lands big Flextronics deal
- Phil Wainewright: Putting Workday on SAP's radar
- Dennis Howlett: Workday: a tipping point?
- Zoho's login gambit: It works
- European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?
Chronicle of Higher Education: How It Does It: The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates
Limo adds Mozilla, Verizon to its bandwago
Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games
Rik Fairlie: Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2
Jason O'Grady: AT&T blowing out refurbished iPhones
Roland Piquepaille:Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
Richard Koman: Britain releases its X-Files
UK warned of China, India software threat
Steve O'Hear: Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support
John Morris: Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
Paul Miller: Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta
Paul Murphy: Business PCs are going nowhere fast
Andrew Nusca: Rumors: Canon to release sibling dSLR to Rebel XSi?
Ed Gottsman: REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing
Denise Howell: A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'