News to know: Facebook Ad(vertorial)s; Microsoft CIO booted; Salesforce.com data loss
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott is out. Report: StrongBox, Component Delivery Platform to debut in Windows 7. New Microsoft datacenters on tap for Chicago, Dublin. Microsoft's Windows Live finally starting to come into its own.
Larry Dignan: Facebook launches its ad platform; Coca Cola as friend? Gallery (right). Rough Type: The social graft. Dan Farber: Facebook Ads: Monetizing the social graph and social graft. Techmeme.
Dan Farber: Surprise--OpenSocial is alpha code.
SecurityFix: Salesforce.com Acknowledges Data Loss. The Salesforce.com letter. David Berlind: Phishing-based breach of salesforce.com customer data is more evidence of industry's need to act on spam. Now.
Ed Bott: Vista Hands On #19: Get one-click access to Vista network properties.
Ryan Naraine: Exploit posted for Viewpoint Media Player flaw. TippingPoint flags another 'high risk' Adobe vulnerability.
Garett Rogers: Google Reader now very functional on iPhone.
Michael Krigsman: Serious IT governance issues at UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Dan Farber: Is Ballmer signaling a Yahoo deal? Defragging Enterprise 2.0.
David Morgenstern: Some new iMacs stuck at Leopard's login.
Red Ferret Journal: Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge. News.com: Yahoo executives grilled by Congress over China policies: Live-blogging. Computerworld: About 165,000 Web sites knocked offline by NaviSite outage.
David Berlind: Dell: The M2300 may look like a subnotebook, but it's certifiably a 'workstation.'
Robin Harris: Build a SuperZune!
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product. Gallery (right). Larry Dignan: Another Apple Tablet PC rumor: Do you buy it? OLPC’s XO Laptop hits mass production.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Leopard, Vista: More alike than you might think. Mary Jo Foley: It’s payback time: If the Vista team could write ad copy. Poll of the Day - Vista vs. Leopard.