August 28th, 2008
News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
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Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloa
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- Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1
Dana Blankenhorn: Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
Dancho Danchev: Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised
- MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising
- Ryan Naraine: Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska’s Black Hat flaw
- iPhone passcode lock rendered useless
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Who’s Dumber: Bad Guys Or Good Guys?
Mitch Ratcliffe: Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren’t customers
Gawker: Bloomberg Runs Steve Jobs’ Obituary
EIC Podcast: Apple-Psystar; Cisco vs. Microsoft; DNC; Dell
Joe McKendrick: SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
Ed Burnette: Suddenly, Android is hot again
Michael Krigsman: MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
Dennis Howlett: Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
Matthew Miller: Review: Palm Treo Pro brings thinnest Treo to the world Gallery right.
- Larry Dignan: Palm Treo: The reviews are upbeat; Can a device turn Palm around?
- MobileTechRoundup show #144, Palm thoughts, Acer Aspire One is gone
- DataViz releases Documents To Go for touch screen Windows Mobile devices
- Nokia N79 and N85 announced for October 08 release
Foley: Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
Paul Murphy: Resurrecting E-voting
Dan Kusnetzky: Datacore - nothing but storage
WSJ: More Artists Steer Clear of iTunes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: “Why do you hate Vista so much?”
- AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.8 downclocks GPU on detecting FurMark
- AMD dual-core “Kuma” Phenom X2 spec in the wild
Christopher Dawson: NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?
ReadWriteWeb: Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong
TechTrader Daily: TiVo Q2 Net, EBITDA Top Ests; But Q3 Outlook Looks LightSam Diaz: It must be a rough day in Cupertino
Jason O’Grady: Major security hole found in iPhone
Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Oliver Marks: ‘Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?’ Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.
- Tech Confidential: EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator
Jennifer Leggio: Some brands should allow themselves to be ‘jacked’
Harry Fuller: Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first placeDana Blankenhorn: Linux Foundation announces end user summit
TechCrunch: ESPN Helps The Active Network Raise $80 Million More
Video: Hydrogen Road Tour hits the road
Ryan Stewart: Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?
The enterprise: All fun and ’serious games’?
IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead
Roland Piquepaille: MeteoSwiss watches the skies in 3D
Dana Gardner: Databases leverage MapReduce technology to radically juice data scale, performance, analytics
Sam Diaz: Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
Andrew Nusca: Say goodbye to laser: Microsoft ‘Blue Track’ mouse discovered (with pic)
Janice Chen: Just-announced Nikon D90 vs. just-reduced Canon EOS 40D
Richard Koman: The Gammima Strain
John Carroll: The role of media in the Internet age
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
