Thursday, June 14, 2007

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Microsoft inks Linux patent deal with Linspire
Posted June 14, 5:02 a.m. Pacific Time
Linspire Inc. has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft Corp. that shields the Linux company's customers from patent claims.  >>


PayPal CTO: Security, mobility to spur growth
Posted June 13, 9:07 a.m. Pacific Time
PayPal's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Thompson, is a prime example of what might be called the "payments geek."  >>


iPhone users will need iTunes account
Posted June 13, 6:37 a.m. Pacific Time
Consumers planning to buy the iPhone when it goes on sale in the U.S. later this month will need to have an iTunes Store account before they can activate the device, according to information on Apple Inc.'s Web site.  >>



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Standards to help users keep virtual clothes on
Posted June 12, 8:57 a.m. Pacific Time
As the number of virtual environments increases, standards and vendor collaboration will help make teleporting between different worlds a smooth experience, ensuring, for instance, that your avatar arrives in a new world still wearing the clothes it donned in your home world.  >>


A developer's-eye view of Leopard
Posted June 12, 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Steve Jobs had a lot of fun at Microsoft's expense over Redmond's difficulties shipping the operating systems that have become Vista and Windows Server 2008. So with Vista shipping by default on new PCs and Windows Server 2008 in a publicly downloadable beta, Apple should be catching hell from the press for making Leopard the last to arrive.  >>


Safari for Windows: Released and hacked in a day
Posted June 11, 4:17 p.m. Pacific Time
Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday, there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.  >>



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Seven top mobile and wireless trends for 2007 are extensively
detailed and dissected in this guide. Gain essential information
about the expanding mobile landscape: convergence, advanced mapping
applications, citywide Wi-Fi networks, 3G broadband, SEDs and mobile
security. Download your copy of this Enterprise Mobility Sponsored
Solutions Guide, compliments of Nokia:

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Mobile Linux group releases first specs
Posted June 11, 5:56 a.m. Pacific Time
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum planned to release its first mobile phone specifications on Monday, in hopes of encouraging more applications for Linux phones.  >>


A .Mac-Google Apps integration makes sense
Posted June 8, 11:25 a.m. Pacific Time
As this year's WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) approaches, Apple fans are furiously speculating on what kind of news will be dropped on us in San Francisco. We already know about the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard preview, and no doubt Apple CEO Steve Jobs will have something to say about the iPhone. But from what I know about the players and the IT landscape, I think Jobs has another "just one more thing" up his sleeve.  >>


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