NewsFactor - Sony is feeling some gaming-division woes this week with a double PlayStation 3 whammy. First, Sony's PlayStation Web site fell victim to SQL-injection attacks. Now Sony's PS3 firmware update is turning some consoles into bricks. -- read full article
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work. -- read full article
CNET - A fresh look at Yahoo's search results Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - FBI agents were able to cross-link surveillance video with ICQ info to arrest a man in a dark baseball cap emblazoned with the words "Top Gun" and a star and wings symbol. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - B-hive Conductor will allow VMware to add proactive management of applications running in virtual machines. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Microsoft is ready to put its popular Microsoft Office suite online, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Called Microsoft Equipt, the suite will join the software giant's online offerings of Windows Live Mail, Messenger, OneCare and Photo Gallery. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - As AT&T rolls out its own IPTV offering, it may see its satellite TV partnerships as insignificant to its overall strategy. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - When the deal was announced, Google and Yahoo said they had agreed to delay it for three months to allow the Department of Justice time to review the arrangement. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Linspire produced Click'N'Run as a way of finding, reviewing, and downloading a copy of desktop software available on the Internet, including the Linspire Linux distribution. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The groups also want to know the number of times the government has sought cell-phone location information without court permission and how many times it has obtained the information. -- read full article