News to know: Skype outage, Dell, HP
Notable headlines:
George Ou: Skype still down - Published DoS exploit may be culprit. Russell Shaw: Skype blames deficient networking algo blamed for service disruption.
Marc Orchant: Worldwide Skype outage. Michael Krigsman: Skype failure and the Enterprise 2.0 mess. Techmeme roundup.
Larry Dignan: Dell restates financials; Says books were cooked. Goals lead to Dell cooking the books.
George Ou: Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2. Dan Farber: IBM expands support for Sun’s Solaris 10.
Images: Streaking star carries a tail of seeds. Mary Jo Foley: A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Harmonica.
George Ou: Vista puts Mac OS X font rendering to shame. Dana Blankenhorn: The iPhone bill demonstrates need for open spectrum. Father of the compact fluorescent bulb looks back. TechCrunch: Sifry, The “Great Leader,” Leaves Technorati. PodTech Also Loses CEO. Techmeme.
News.com: Microsoft's anti-Google lobbyists, revealed.
Canonical dismisses Ubuntu security concerns. What does 'open access' mean?
Start-up wants Feds to decide on free Wi-Fi plans.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:Why Apple doesn't get more of my cash. Which is more hassle to set up - Mac or PC? Ars Technica: Welcome Xohm: Sprint's WiMAX service gets name, $5 billion price tag.
Couple in China tries to name baby '@'
Adobe: No threat from PDF spam. David Berlind: Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media. Joe McKendrick: Another view: Don't expect SOA to fix ERP quagmire.
Dana Blankenhorn: Can kiosks save healthcare?
Photos: Philips gear syncs music with devices.
Larry Dignan: Mortgage upheaval could ding online advertising.
OMG! Study finds iPhone texting 2x slower than QWERTY. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: User Centric iPhone study proves, well, nothing really.
Steve O'Hear: Has Facebook abandoned privacy?
TV vs. tech: Battle over white space.