IT News Digest

Archive: 06-2007

• New service helps you recover your stolen mobile gadget

  Left your spanking new smartphone device at the cafe during lunchtime or dropped it in the subway? Perhaps it was bumped off you en route to the office in the rush-hour crowd. In the above (and a...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 30, 2007, 7:59 PM PDT

• The iPhone dissected; and see TechRepublic's cracking open gallery

  Barely hours after the launch, the good folks down at AnandTech have already dissected their iPhone. To quote from them: Please note that we’re doing this so you are not tempted to on your...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 30, 2007, 7:22 PM PDT

• Update on Core 2 CPU bugs

  It was just earlier this week when I posted a piece about a patch for Intel chips that was quietly released. If you followed the story, news of the bug was first posted by Intel in late April...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 29, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT

• Backdoor found in Quicken

  A recent statement released by ElcomSoft, a Russian maker of password-recovery tools, claims that Quicken versions since 2003 have a backdoor that unlocks the strong encryption in the product with...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 29, 2007, 10:17 PM PDT

• I-Day iPhone perspective: News you can use

  Here’s a synopsis of the most newsworthy items regarding the iPhone on I-Day: The New York Times published an FAQ (’scuse me, a List of Often-Asked iQuestions) for the iPhone,...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 29, 2007, 6:28 PM PDT

• AMD to ship 'Barcelona' in August

  Finally, AMD has announced that its much touted ‘Barcelona’ quad-core Opteron processors will ship in August of this year (ComputerWorld). The release will include a Standard and a...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 29, 2007, 4:31 PM PDT

• Look for more white box clones in corporate IT

  Just when Microsoft thought it was safe to ship another OS, relying on major manufacturers to seed the market, comes today’s U. S. Supreme Court decision that manufacturers can mandate...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 29, 2007, 10:49 AM PDT

• Smile, you're on Google

  Just completed a major project successfully and felt it’s time to move on? Updated your resume and already linked up with a headhunter from that top recruitment agency in town? Before you...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 28, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT

• The state of Xen

  Interop News has a new piece on Xen, the open source hypervisor that was supposed to give VMware a run for its money. If you recall, Xen was red hot stuff, with countless IT trade press articles,...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 28, 2007, 11:53 PM PDT

• Google desktop for Linux released!

  Google has finally released a native version of Google Desktop for Linux. Similar to the OS X and the Windows version, this nifty software not only allows users to search for files on the system,...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 28, 2007, 11:24 PM PDT

• MySpaceTV: Another YouTube rival?

  MySpace, the social networking site owned by News Corp, will be launching a refurbished video sharing site that does not require MySpace membership to be accessed. MySpaceTV will contain videos in...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 28, 2007, 12:18 PM PDT

• Privacy needs to be designed from the ground up

  A leading privacy researcher has concluded that new technologies should have privacy controls built in up front in order to adequately protect our privacy. The researcher’s software, dubbed...

  Posted by Andy Moon | June 28, 2007, 11:10 AM PDT

• Vista Ultimate: Good deal or Microsoft revenue enhancement?

  Industry insiders challenge Microsoft promises that Windows Vista Ultimate not only provides everything found in Vista Enterprise and Vista Home Premium but also adds Ultimate Extras. The online...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 28, 2007, 7:50 AM PDT

• Opera Mini 4 cell phone browser beta lightens cellular bills

  The well-established Norwegian browser firm, Opera, released a new version of its stripped-down cell phone client, Opera Mini 4 this week. I don’t see why they label it Beta; it’s a...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 28, 2007, 7:26 AM PDT

• Are virtual worlds the future of cyber experience?

  Two links on Technology Review, a video of Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web and an article on the emergence of virtual worlds, demonstrate how the Internet experience is seeking to transform...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 28, 2007, 6:04 AM PDT

• Another blow to wide-spread usage of RFID

  In another blow to the adoption of RFID in the enterprise, often billed as a barcode replacement, researchers from PacketFocus Security Solutions and ATlas RFID Solutions use standard tag readers...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 27, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT

• IT consultants: A waste of money?

  A recent posting on ZDNet warns that organizations risk wasting vast sums of money on external consultants in scenarios where management is lax. Wastage also comes when consultants are used in...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 27, 2007, 11:32 PM PDT

• Are some Web sites evil or just the people who embrace them?

  With each passing week, the stories that are covered on News.com’s Police Blotter series more closely resemble News of the Weird. This past week, Police Blotter highlighted a Texas church...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | June 27, 2007, 5:54 PM PDT

• United States trailing in Net access speed

  The United States is lagging behind other countries when it comes to the speed at which citizens can connect to the Internet. Our median access speed is less than a 30th of Japan’s, South...

  Posted by Andy Moon | June 27, 2007, 1:49 PM PDT

• Patch for Intel chips quietly released

  It appears that a fix for what might be some significant issues in many of Intel’s most recent processors has been quietly released. Details on it are scant, other than that it’s...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 26, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT