PC World - Startup Vysr is trying to improve on the Web browser with an add-on that lets you access services from Web sites without... -- read full article
PC World - Russian security company Kaspersky Lab's Web site for Malaysia was defaced on Saturday along with one of its online shopping... -- read full article
Reuters - When it was unveiled in June, Apple's
new iPhone didn't appear to offer anything new for music fans.
But thanks to the subsequent launch of the App Store on iTunes,
iPhone users can download a host of applications to add new
functions to the device. Many of them are music-oriented and
all are made specifically for the iPhone.
Reuters - More than 1,600 years after it was
written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will
become globally accessible online for the first time this week.
AP - People planning for retirement got a new tool this week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. -- read full article
AP - Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
AP - Given that he was ousted from the top job at a struggling AOL, Jonathan F. Miller might not seem a natural candidate to advise its Internet rival Yahoo Inc. But Miller was instrumental in transforming AOL into an advertising company, giving him expertise in a field Yahoo must master.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Harvester 5.0 has better heuristics matching capabilities, tighter integration with the extract, transform and load process; and a graphical user interface with point-and-click navigation. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The additional support stems from the latest version of Kalido Universal Information Director, which makes it possible to get data from Kalido's data warehouse to Microsoft Office, PerformancePoint and SharePoint. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The latest version of NovaView enables customers to retain their data warehouse in-house while combining its information with Web-based public data sources. -- read full article
Reuters - The German company sued by Facebook
for running a "knockoff" of the social networking Web site said
on Sunday it asked a German court to declare that Facebook's
claims are without merit. -- read full article
