News to know: Life without Google; Securing Safari; Dell
Notable headlines:
Life without Google: Quintura a nice alternative. Gallery (right).
Techmeme: The great age debate: Can over 30-somethings innovate?
AP: GE, Pearson Discussing Dow Jones Bid.
Marc Orchant: Dell selling Nokia phones - bad news for carriers. Matthew Miller: Dell coupons may help you buy a new Nokia S60 device.
Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and Multimedia Platform Debuts at NXTcomm.
Dell: Dell's 23 confessions. Ars Technica: Dell apologizes for overreaction to sensitive sales tips. The Consumerist: 22 confessions of a former Dell sales manager.
Robin Harris: How to REALLY erase a hard drive - Update.
TechCrunch: A very organized hit job on LifeLock.
Ryan Naraine: Securing Safari: How to run Apple’s browser securely. Gallery (right). Marc Orchant: Is Safari a honeypot for the iPhone?
Windows v Linux - Days of risk in 2006.
Jason O'Grady: Leopard 9a466 screen shots. Phil Wainewright: SaaS and the packaged software appliance. Can the appliance put SaaS on-premise? Joe McKendrick: O'Toole: The era of Big SOA is over. Dana Gardner: WSO2 expands ESB market with Apache Synapse-based, open source SOA offering.
Dan Farber Live event: Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport debate the merits of Enterprise 2.0.
David Berlind: ZDNet names its 10th Deputy Tester of the Week (to get free tech!).
New York Times: Online sales lose steam.
New York magazine: Steve Jobs in a box. Jason O'Grady: MacBook Pro 17-inch HD starting to arrive.
AP: Blockbuster to favor Blu-Ray disks.
Paul Murphy: The state of Unix.
Top reviews of the week (left).
Computerworld: Browser wars: Mozilla exec calls Steve Jobs 'out-of-date.'
FAQ: What to do with your Yahoo photos.
Microsoft CEO calls Google complaint 'baseless'
Baseline: What data mining can and can't do.
Moscow museum resurrects Soviet arcade games. Photos: Rescuing Russia's arcade games (right).
Dana Blankenhorn: Case studies in an open source world. Larry Dignan: Adobe on Google Gears, Flex success and CS3 uptake.
Computerworld: Marines deploy Sharepoint. Garett Rogers: Stream YouTube videos on your mobile phone.