Here’s a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers multiple unpatched vulnerabilities in the open sourced Mambo CMS, Gento’s vulnerability to DOS and remote exploitation, the availability of an update for a disclosed flaw in the UltraVNC client, a security hole in Cisco’s Wireless Control System, Security leaks…
Archive for February 3rd, 2008
Feb3
Google Says Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Would Stifle Internet Innovation
In Google’s first public reaction to Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for Yahoo, it says the merger could pose a threat to the internet, and could stifle openness, innovation and protection of privacy online.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb3
Listening Post: Want Better Music? Don’t Stiff the Songwriters
As new digital-distribution plans gain traction, an inevitable fight over publishing royalties breaks out. If songwriters lose, your ears will suffer. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb3
Faster NAND Flash (SSD) in Late 2008
With the introduction of the MacBook Air, Apple offered a new mass storage option for the first time — Solid State Drives (SSD). The Solid State Drive takes the place of the traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) as the place to store your files. Being…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb3
Will the real monopolist please stand up?
That didn’t take long. The lawyers already are issuing statements over the Microsoft bid for Yahoo and liberally throwing around the M (”monopolist”) word.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb3
Google’s Social Graph API is neat, but is it useful?
I guess it’s not up to Google if their new Social Graph API will fly — it’s success is completely dependent on whether FOAF(Friend Of A Friend) and XFN (XHTML Friends Network) become popular enough to make their API useful. These two types of data are basically simple ways for people to declare their […]
Filed in: Google
Feb3
Next Item on Sale at Amazon: Its Data Center
Critics thought it was over the top when Amazon.com expanded from books into music in 1998. When the Web retailer let competitors start selling things alongside its own inventory in 2000, they said Amazon had gone nuts. Now, Amazon is making an even greater stretch — selling storage, computing power and other behind-the-scenes data center services.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb3
Mobile Linux: A Crowd Is Starting to Form
The world of open source mobile platforms is starting to get a little crowded. Over the past couple of days, rumors began flying that Dell is getting into the game with a phone based on Google’s Android platform. Dell denies it, but the amount of attention that is being paid to this segment of the market is notable.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb3
Wading Into the M-Commerce Waters
When Apple introduced the iPhone last year, it was the first mass market cell phone to use a touchscreen system of controls. Now the retail and banking industries are pushing a vastly different kind of touch technology. This year’s model is all about shopping and using a cell phone like a wand — touching the end of the phone to a checkout screen when you pay for that Big Mac.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb3
Lack of Features Clouds MacBook Air’s Fresh Design
Apple finally entered the subnotebook market, introducing a lightweight laptop meant to please road warriors. However, typical of Apple, the company took a different approach from its competitors. The result: a beautiful, amazingly thin computer, but one whose unusual trade-offs may turn off some frequent travelers.
Filed in: Personal Tech
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