News to know: Facebook; Apple and Cisco patches
Notable headlines:
Facebook's new platform:
Dan Farber: Facebook: The social Web utility company. Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph. Facebook: We just want to share information more efficiently
Facebook welcomes outside services. Video. Steve O'Hear: More thoughts on Facebook's new platform.
Donna Bogatin: Who needs Facebook? Students fight back. Techmeme roundup. George Ou: Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?
Cisco patches security flaws in number of products.
With FON deal, Boingo aims to expand network.
Mary Jo Foley: Putting lipstick on a cancelled PDC pig.
Ryan Naraine: Apple patch batch fixes 17 Mac OS X vulnerabilities.
Mary Jo Foley: Enthusiasts progress with plans to resurrect Windows 'Longhorn'.
What Wal-Mart means to Dell. Larry Dignan: Dell officially does Wal-Mart; more partners?
Gallery:
Ryan Naraine: ActiveX flaw project hits Microsoft Office 2000. May 30 is D-Day for Firefox 1.5.
UK Microsoft: Label incompetent IT pros.
Dan Farber: On the campaign trail with McAfee’s Dave DeWalt.
Computerworld: The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills.
Joe McKendrick: How to keep too many cooks from spoiling the SOA broth.
Larry Dignan: Will SarbOx change ding IT vendors? John Newton: SarbOx Changes--Good for business, bad for IT Vendors.
Researchers show off virtual human in 4D.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is it too late for managed Blu-ray and HD-DVD copying? Techmeme. AppleInsider: Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini. Dana Blankenhorn: Can Novell get its good name back?
Donna Bogatin: Google declares war on $2 trillion health care industry.
Computerworld: Post Va. Tech, campus CIOs face demands to boost communications.
Baseline: ITILv3: What you need to know.