News to know: Leopard firewalls; NSA; Amazon Kindle; Early adopter curse
Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: Apple admits to ‘misleading’ Leopard firewall settings. Techmeme.
Rogue anti-malware lures squirming though Skype.
NSA telecom immunity still unsettled in Senate David Morgenstern: Mac users can now give real love to Win
Larry Dignan: Amazon’s e-book coming Monday? Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday.
Oracle: Even $6.7 billion for BEA is too high
Modern PCs to challenge WWII codebreaker. Gallery (right).
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: It's new technology stupid, you should expect problems!
Podcast: Oracle and Sun VMs, Fusion revelations and more...
BusinessWeek: Social Networking with the Elite
Dan Farber: Forrester survey: Dell, HP and Lenovo rule the PC market
Anti-P2P college bill advances in House.
Microsoft: SQL Server licensing to win Oracle customers. Larry Dignan: IBM takes the computing cloud corporate; What cloud will you trust? Dana Gardner: IBM's 'Blue Cloud' signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model. Dana Blankenhorn: Will the biggest clouds stay open source?
Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com projects $1 billion in revenue for next fiscal year. Network Appliance: U.S. enterprise spending on the wane. BEA quarterly profit up, software sales lower.
Dan Farber: The medium is messaging. Roland Piquepaille: A nanotechnology award for NASA.
Photos: On the fringes of green technology (right).
Silicon Alley Insider: Who else wants to invest in Facebook at $15 billion. No one.