Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely
popular at home for his visits to quake-hit Sichuan, has
emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook
social networking site.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Facebook's decision to open its platform comes less than two weeks after the social network began denying Google's Friend Connect. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Based around the Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine, Cisco's new platform is designed to give enterprise IT directors an appliance-based platform to manage wired and wireless networks. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - MokaFive's virtual desktops run on a desktop or laptop regardless of whether that unit remains connected to a central server. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - HP says a fully loaded system takes up 8 square feet of data center floor space and offers 12.3 teraflops of performance. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Designed around the "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron processor, IBM said its x3755 configuration can scale up to four sockets and provide up to 128 GB of memory. -- read full article
Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely
popular at home for his visits to quake-hit Sichuan, has
emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook
social networking site.
PC Magazine - The HomePlug Powerline Alliance said Friday that it plans to release a specification for a next-generation "HomePlug AV II" home networking specification later this year, with first silicon sampling in 2009. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - A preview version of Microsoft's Social Bookmarks, to be introduced next month, will allow users to bookmark, tag, and share any URL on the Web. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube could mean the end of social networking as we know it, Google has told a U.S. court. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Once upon a time, using open-source servers and applications for business was frowned upon in many circles. Today, you???d be hard pressed to find any sizeable infrastructure that doesn???t leverage open-source code in some form or another, be it a few MySQL databases, Apache on the Web servers, or a pile of Perl, PHP, Ruby, or Python applications holding things together. -- read full article
PC World - Europe's Internet security agency, ENISA, wants new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and... -- read full article
AFP - Hong Kong's largest property firm Sun Hung Kai said Tuesday it had ousted Walter Kwok as its chairman, replacing him with his 79-year-old mother after a high-profile feud at the family-run firm.
