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Apple may nuke iPhone apps remotely

Larry Dignan: Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked.

Operating Systems

Oracle: Gimme an L

Sam Diaz: At LinuxWorld, Oracle is positioning itself as the head cheerleader for widespread adoption of Linux. Plus, the company announced new products and new partners.

Security

Talking Firefox security with Window Snyder

Ryan Naraine: Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wants to open-source much more than the Firefox browser. Snyder announces plans to launch three collaborative initiatives around threat modeling, training and vulnerability.

Companies

What's next for Windows Server?

Mary Jo Foley: With Microsoft having just released to manufacturing SQL Server 2008--the last unshipped piece of its updated application platform--it's time to look ahead as to what's next for Windows Server.

Enterprise Hardware

OCZ launch 8GB and 16GB RAM upgrade kits

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Before you whip out your wallet and hit your favorite online parts retailer, a couple of words of warning.

Communications

Did the iPhone 2.0.1 update improve the 3G/EDGE auto switching?

Matthew Miller: I almost returned my iPhone 3G but the reception capability has improved with the working 3G/EDGE data auto-switching.

Enterprise Software

Expert: SOA vulnerable to DNS security flaw, too

Joe McKendrick: There are apparently implications for companies SOA-enabling their applications--the problem extends far and wide across the enterprise.

Web Technology

MySpace lands official presidential debate gig

Steve O'Hear: MySpace announced an official partnership with the Commission on Presidential Debates to create a dedicated portal to host and let users disseminate the upcoming series of presidential and vice presidential Debates.

IT Management

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Paul Murphy: In today's opening round I want to challenge readers who use Microsoft's development tools in an Office or general business applications context.

General News

New Nissan technology deters drivers from danger

Nissan previewed new safety technology that goes beyond a warning beep if drivers veer into the path of danger, and actively tries to pull the car in the direction of safety.

iPhone 3G boot failure complaints pile up

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Updated: The iPhone 3G appears to be having a few software issues that are leaving a few disgruntled customers in its wake. We were tipped off by a reader who...

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What's next for Windows Server

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

With Microsoft having just released to manufacturing SQL Server 2008 -- the last unshipped piece of its updated application platform -- it's time to look ahead as to what's next...

Mary-Jo Foley

CNET's Clientside developer blog serving Adobe Flash exploits

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

Yesterday, Websense Labs issued an alert regarding a compromised CNET blog, namely the Clientside developer blog which has been embedded with a malicious javascript code attempting to exploit the visitors...

Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

iPhone's black screen of death (updated)

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

I received an email from an iPhone user greatly concerned about "either an unaddressed issue with both 2.0 and 2.01 software - or a rogue app(s) that is taking down...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Profits up, but margins fall at Lenovo

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest PC maker, saw quaterly earnings rise 65% for Q1, but profit margins fall dramatically.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google gives us the keys to insightful information

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

If you are someone who can't get enough data, Google's new "Insights for Search" (which I'm sure will be renamed to simply "Google Insights" when they realize the current name...

Garett Rogers

Dell now ships XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installed

Linux and Open Source by Paula Rooney

Dell has launched an XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installed.  The two models are the Dell XPS M153On and Studio 15n.  Dell "recommends Windows Vista Home Premium"...

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Car chase: Chrysler CIO to run treasury dep't.

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

To reduce costs, Chrysler has combined IT and global finance into a single organization. While the move is not without risk, the company's financial woes require dramatic steps.

Michael Krigsman

Zoho's millions

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

  It's not often I get excited by adoption numbers but the fact Zoho has passed the million user landmark represents an outstanding achievement and a cause for celebration. Zoli...

Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how...

Jason Perlow

The data center cost conundrum

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an...

Dennis Howlett

The cleantech bubble--true or false?

GreenTech Pastures by Harry Fuller

There is a serious cleantech investment bubble in the making. That's the view of an opinionator on our sister site, CNET. Steve Tobak warns, they're blowing smoke, and smoke gets...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

You’ve got Vista x64 questions, I’ve got answers

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

I got a lot of great questions and comments via e-mail and in the Talkback section of my previous post on the sudden surge in adoption rates for Windows Vista...

Ed Bott

HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk density

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Disk vendors have a rough idea of how other to reach 10 TB drives within 10 years. But what about 2 years? Hitachi global storage technologies has announced that they...

Robin Harris

Hello, Google, is anyone in there?

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

We can converse and do business instantly with strangers on the opposite side of the planet, but when something goes wrong with one of the largest providers of Internet technology,...

Phil Wainewright

The astounding $14million Ethernet extender

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

I was helping a friend find a good price on a powerline Ethernet extender like the one I bought a few months ago, and stumbled upon this bargain: Luckily I...

Ed Burnette

Teaching language to robots

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans....

Roland Piquepaille

Parents spy on underage social networkers

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

Children regularly circumvent age verification systems on social networks such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, according to a new survey of young people's online activities in the UK. In response,...

Steve O'Hear

Nokia Email service drastically improves the email experience on S60 devices

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

The Nokia S60 Nseries and Eseries devices are incredible mobile devices, but the email client is very basic and has a rather plain look and feel to it (aka BlackBerry...

Matthew Miller

ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads--including the SL series for small business--that Lenovo announced as part of Intel's Centrino 2 launch. The 12.1-inch wide-screen ultraportable, which replaces the...

John Morris

Silverlight and DoubleClick: Old news with a new press release

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

In the news but not news category we're getting a press release from Google that basically covers what they talked about at MIX earlier this year. It's a great deal...

Ryan Stewart

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

In a previous discussion of OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office most respondents addressing the development issue seemed to prefer the Microsoft development tools over the comparable open source ones. I believe...

Paul Murphy

'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

There are interesting community driven enterprise developments around SAP's 'Netweaver' SOA ('service-oriented application') and integration platform, with a sophisticated Twitter - style tool created by a diverse group of international...

Oliver Marks

VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation

Virtually Speaking by Paula Rooney

VMware is investing more resources in the channel and IT community -- and getting more involved in the Linux community -- to preserve its lead in the virtualization software market....

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Expert: SOA vulnerable to DNS security flaw, too

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

This just in from the Black Hat security confab currently taking place in Las Vegas: Dan Kaminsky, a well-known IT security researcher, disclosed his findings around the Domain Name Server...

Joe McKendrick

Sybase rides growing database business into mobility innovation, says Chen at user conference

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

For mobility, in a year where the Apple iPhone gained the lion's share of attention (despite Symbian's dominance), Sybase is driving toward the "unwired enterprise" to bring the analytics world...

Dana Gardner

UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

J.D. Power announces 2008 ratings for best digital cameras

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Remember back in the day when you only heard about J.D. Power rankings in car commercials? Well, the market research firm is deep into digital cameras these days and yesterday...

Janice Chen

AT&T blunders on free Wi-Fi for iPhones

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

AT&T just can’t commit. To free Wi-Fi for iPhone 3G customers, that is. The company seems to be having a blunder-fest with announcements that iPhone 3G customers can get free...

Rik Fairlie

The lowdown on Intel's Larrabee

The Core Truth by John Morris

With Siggraph 2008 starting next week and IDF (Intel Developer Forum) on its heels, Intel is revealing more details of its mysterious Larrabee project. Intel has finally stated unequivocally that...

John Morris

Vivaty rolls out 'student friendly' development platform

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

I've written about Vivaty before, the new add-on to your existing social network, modelling your entire network in three dimensions. Before, they gave you your own blank scene and avatar,...

Zack Whittaker

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their...

Dion Hinchcliffe

The Microsoft middle ground

A Developer's View by John Carroll

Microsoft occupies a middle ground between the vertically-integrated control of an Apple and the bazaar-like atmosphere of the open source world. Microsoft abandons that middle ground at their own peril.

John Carroll

Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

You’d think, based on the timing, that Oracle was trying to deliberately make a PR run on what was looking like, and turned out to be, some pretty good news...

Joshua Greenbaum

The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control

IMHO by Tom Foremski

My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog...

Tom Foremski

Vodafone's Big(ish?) Adventure

On Sustainability by James Farrar

It's fun to think of similes to categorise the headlong rush towards CO2 reductions or at least the pledges for such. I think of Vodafone's pledge of a 50% cut of the...

James Farrar

Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might...

Denise Howell

45% of online Democrats and 34% of Republicans go online

IT Facts by NB

Compared with those who would support McCain in a head-to-head matchup in the fall, wired Obama supporters are more likely to go online to watch campaign commercials (36% vs. 26%),...

Alex Moskalyuk

Eight pitfalls of predictive markets

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won't. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and...

David Greenfield

Social giving for charity begets social giving for community

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit...

Jennifer Leggio

The shine is off another apple

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

Techies to Apple: You treat us like indentured servants.In a lawsuit filed Monday that the plaintiff hopes to turn into class-action that could include all staff at retail stores, an...

Deb Perelman

The Digg toolbar for Firefox 3

The Web Life by Andrew Mager

Yesterday afternoon, Digg launched a new plugin for Firefox 3. I immediately installed it. Right away, you notice a new toolbar in your browser and a button next to the...

Andrew Mager

The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings; "There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting...

Paul Miller

Sorry, no-can-do, says Tufts

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

Tufts University responded last week to a subpoena in yet another file-sharing case by explaining why they could not actually identify the "Does" named in the case. While this is...

Christopher Dawson

TSA vendor finds lost laptop, remains suspended

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Travelers who use the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program might be verified as good security risks but the same can't be said about Steven Brill's Verified Identity Pass, one...

Richard Koman

Can global competition bring health care quality?

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

My view is a key to any P4P scheme has to be transparency, solid information insurers and consumers can use to make informed choices. In the past this was known...

Dana Blankenhorn

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    John Carroll

    At the intersection between technology and economic policy, John Carroll brings years of experience as a software developer to bear on the latest issues affecting the technology industry.

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    Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.

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    Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

    Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.

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    Dana Gardner

    Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.

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    Oliver Marks

    Real world collaboration strategy for enterprises

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    Ed Burnette

    Who said computers have to be all work and no play? Software developer and author Ed Burnette shares his unique view of industry trends, technologies, and personalities.

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    Janice Chen

    Gadget geek Janice Chen delivers real-world buying advice of the best gear to get.

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    Ed Bott

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    Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Roland Piquepaille selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.

  • Enterprise Alley

    Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

    Showcasing the new breed of startup-style vendors who are solving old problems in a fresh way or offering a glimpse into the future of enterprise applications.

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    Joshua Greenbaum

    Software analyst Josh Greenbaum's opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up.

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    Dion Hinchcliffe

    Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.

  • Feeds

    Jennifer Leggio

    Jennifer Leggio delivers news on social media tools and trends and deep dives into business strategies.

  • Googling Google

    Garett Rogers

    Garett Rogers explores the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world.Google spoilers inside.

  • GreenTech Pastures

    Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

    As the global warming debate rages, Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy chronicle alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.

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    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sieves through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.

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    Zack Whittaker

    Talking 'bout the next generation of IT users

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    Dennis Howlett

    Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.

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    Alex Moskalyuk

    Your daily research synopsis is the top resource for business and technology statistics that inform, enlighten and entertain.

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    Michael Krigsman

    Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.

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    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.

  • Lawgarithms

    Denise Howell

    Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.

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    Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

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  • Managing L'unix

    Paul Murphy

    A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.

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    James Farrar

    James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.

  • Rational Rants

    Mitch Ratcliffe

    "Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about the constantly changing boundary between media and life, the businesses that live on that border, and the meaning of all this change to society and the economy.

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    Joe McKendrick

    SOA promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with SOA, and how to capitalize on this new computing philosophy.

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    Phil Wainewright

    In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.

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    Rik Fairlie

    Get the latest news and expert views on new wireless networking products and services, plus tips on how to optimize your SOHO network.

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    Robin Harris

    Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.

  • Team Think

    David Greenfield

    David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.

  • Tech Broiler

    Jason Perlow

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    Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

    Apple technology keeps gaining respect in the executive suite, with businesses and in the data center. Jason O'Grady and David Morgenstern deliver critical news and penetrating analysis that managers need to succeed.

  • The Core Truth

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.

  • The IT Grind

    Deb Perelman

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    Matthew Miller

    Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.

  • The Semantic Web

    Paul Miller

    Paul Miller offers insight and analysis on the Semantic Web, dissecting the news and showing why it matters to the wider business world.

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    Steve O'Hear

    From Facebook to MySpace, YouTube to Second Life, social software is reshaping the world we live in. Steve O\'Hear provides daily news and analysis of the emerging social web.

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    Ryan Stewart

    The technology and business implications of the next generation of software, rich Internet applications.

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    Andrew Mager

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    Tom Foremski

    Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.

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    Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

    Virtualization is a mix of technologies that is changing how datacenters use standard systems. Dan Kusnetzky examines this hotly competitive market and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of each supplier.

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    Christopher Dawson

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