TechWeb - InformationWeek - The exploit code was released July 17, two days after Oracle issued its second-quarter Critical Patch Update. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Gores Group will get a majority stake in the new venture, which will combine Siemens technology with other Gores holdings. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The 8-inch computer ships with Windows Vista, either an Intel Pentium Dual Core or Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4 GB of memory, and 320 GB of storage. -- read full article
Reuters - Three tech giants --
Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo -- said on Tuesday they are
teaming up on a research project to help turn Web services into
reliable, everyday utilities.
AFP - The creators of online Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous said Tuesday they have pulled their application from US and Canadian Facebook pages due to a lawsuit filed by game-making giant Hasbro.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback claims foreign-owned hotels have been asked to install Internet monitoring equipment to spy on hotel guests during the Beijing Games. -- read full article
PC World - With the Internet increasingly taking on the role of the PC operating system and the growing prevalence of virtualization... -- read full article
AP - Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of "severe retaliation" if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday. -- read full article
CNET - Google wouldn't be Google without its ownership of the estimated $10.4 billion annual search advertising market. But other ad-technology hopefuls are still angling for ways to take a few million or billion dollars off the top for themselves--just like Microsoft and Yahoo. -- read full article
PC World - New search engine Cuil seems to be off to a rocky start, associating some unrelated logos and photos with other content. -- read full article
Reuters - Word-wise game players lost a
popular online diversion on Tuesday as the creators of a
knock-off of the game Scrabble cut off service in North America
in the face of a lawsuit by game maker Hasbro Inc.
AFP - Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the Internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said Wednesday, reversing a pledge to bring down the Chinese firewall of censorship.
PC World - The European Environmental Agency and Microsoft have built a Web portal showing the water quality ranking for 21,000 sites... -- read full article
PC World - Journalists connecting to the Internet at the Beijing International Media Center are discovering China is still blocking... -- read full article
