"Improved iPhone 3G Still Must Prove Itself to Bankers: Apple's addition of enterprise applications to 3G iPhone huge step forward, but some businesses remain hesitant over security." Finance Tech 10:36 AM
"Apple, AT&T have serious issues in wake of iPhone 3G launch" Detroit Free Press 10:10 AM
"MobileOne to Sell IPhone in its Shops by End of Year: MobileOne Ltd., Singapore's smallest mobile-phone operator, will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone in its retail outlets by the end of this year." ["'I think, before the end of the year we will be' carrying the phones in our stores, Chief Executive Officer Neil Montefiore said today in a Bloomberg Television interview. ''It will become available in all markets, with all operators.'"] Bloomberg 7:43 AM
"Doom'ing The iPhone" ["'We have a title we want to develop exclusively for iPhone,' he says. 'I'm not announcing anything specifically, but it would be a graphical tour de force.' ... One of the biggest appeals of the iPhone, says Carmack, is that it can handle big games that are 10 megabytes or more. ... That makes the iPhone look like a big open field. The hard part, Carmack concedes, will be reigning himself in."] Forbes.com 8:23 AM
"Exclusive iPhone game on the way from id Software" Touch Arcade 3:31 PM
"Apple Fails to Patch Critical Exploited DNS Flaw" TidBITS 7:23 AM
"Copy & Paste references spotted in existing iPhone frameworks" AppleInsider 11:38 AM
"Date calculations with stock and Gnu versions of 'date'" Mac OS X Hints 10:11 AM
"Find corrupt fonts using Spotlight in Terminal" Mac OS X Hints 10:11 AM
Op/Ed
"Pwnage, Jailbreak and now...what?" Inside iPhone 8:57 AM
"Apple didn't push too hard with Mobileme" Desinformado 4:08 PM
"Apple's MobileMe mess is now reaching critical mass, with the NY Times and Wall St. Journal climbing on the bandwagon, and we have more notes from our own readers." MacInTouch 10:13 AM
"MobileMe - 'too ragged' - Mossberg" Macworld UK 8:17 AM
"Best Apple Mac OS X Software: Part One/Our Apple expert John C. Welch picks 22 lesser-known applications that can make your Mac experience more productive and more fun. Part 1 of 2." InformationWeek 8:11 AM
"Ballmer urges troops to slap down Apple and Google" iTWire 7:28 AM
"Amazon To Power Upcoming MySpace Music Downloads: The as-yet unlaunched MySpace Music will likely partner with Amazon to handle all music ecommerce transactions, we've heard from multiple sources. Apple and Rhapsody are also bidding for the business, however, and one source says a final decision hasn't yet been made." TechCrunch 12:57 PM
"iPhone 3G hitting Orange UK in October?" Electricpig 7:48 AM
"MobileOne to Offer IPhone; Outlook for MobileOne" cellular-news 8:34 AM
"Apple sees red over iPhone 3G" Reg Hardware 8:38 AM
"Sony President Chubachi Has No Plan to Make IPhone-Like Devices" Bloomberg 8:27 AM
"September: Think Apple Expo!" Paris Logue 8:15 AM
"Best and Worst iPhone Alternatives" BusinessWeek 8:39 AM
Non-Apple News
"Augmented Reality Coming to Your Desktop Soon" IDG News Service 1:40 PM
"AOL to Shut Down Xdrive, Other Services" IDG News Service 1:04 PM
"Rambus second-quarter loss widens on $130.5 million tax charge" Bloomberg News 12:21 PM
"Reaching for the Clouds: A new startup hopes to compete in the crowded Web-application infrastructure market by making its platform open source." Technology Review 11:59 AM
"World's biggest ISPs drag feet on critical DNS patch: BT, AT&T among those putting subscribers at risk" The Register 11:49 AM
"SAP user group foments revolt over massive price hike" The Register 11:51 AM
"Vonage to Name New CEO, Nears Refinancing Deal" WSJ.com 11:36 AM
"Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer" ZDNet 11:05 AM
"Get Ready For Google Gadget Malware: At Black Hat, RSnake is expected to demonstrate a zero-day vulnerability that allows for information theft, spoofing, and authentication issues." InformationWeek 3:12 PM
"Google Wants You To Be Your Own ISP: Vint Cerf slams the telecoms, which aren't happy that bits have been commoditized and would like to shape industry regulations to help them to get back in the services game." InformationWeek 10:40 AM
"Bombs rock India's 'Silicon Valley'" FT.com 10:17 AM
"News Corp.'s Fox To Help Theaters Enter Digital Age" WSJ.com 10:05 AM
"Google to face charges over Down syndrome video: Italian prosecutors say a video which showed four youths taunting a teenager with Down syndrome was an invasion of privacy" Times Online, UK 9:04 AM
"Generation Text: Emailing on the Go Sends Some Users Into Harm's Way" WSJ.com 7:30 AM
"Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now" IDG News Service 8:57 AM
"Yahoo!'s Zimbra Desktop beta 3 launched: Yahoo! subsidiary Zimbra has released beta 3 of Zimbra Desktop, its new email application designed to make it simpler to work with multiple web mail accounts, even when offline. The program also includes calendaring facilities." iTWire 7:30 AM
Publications
"Apple Gazette Daily 314 - Psystar vs. Apple, Mossberg on the App Store, and iPhone 2.1" Apple Gazette 4:37 PM
"Speculation About a 'MacBook Touch' Builds" Mac Rumors 4:37 PM
"Intel prepping 2.93GHz mobile Core 2 Duo?" Electronista 8:40 AM
"Flash/windows media and new lockscreen for the iPhone in Apple patent application" Hrmpf! 7:36 AM
"IBM dominates Green500 supercomputer list" iTWire 7:28 AM
"Quad-Core MacBooks? Apple 'Book Refresh Delays? Multiple Monitors With MacBook Pro; Power PC Mini-Desktop; Multitouch In MacBook Hack" PowerBook Central 12:38 PM
"Undocumented iPhone 2.0 Features, Free SMS from iPhone, First iPhone Antivirus, and More" Low End Mac 4:37 PM
"Mac Malware Count Reaches 3, Desktop PCs Making a Comeback, Mac mini in the Living Room, and More" Low End Mac 10:10 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"What's the difference between a 'disc' and a 'disk'?" Apple Support 7:40 PM
"MacBook Air: USB optical drive required for installing Boot Camp" Apple Support 7:40 PM
"Our latest iPhone 3G reports continue discussion about availability, performance, apps and security, 2.0 firmware changes, and various questions and tips." MacInTouch 10:13 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"TopXNotes: Buy at a 43% discount. Promo runs today only." MacUpdate Promo 7:34 AM
"17'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:15 AM
"15'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:15 AM
"13'' MacBook Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:15 AM
"In The US Apple Store three colors of the refurbished iPod shuffle 2GB for $59 were restocked, 68 items were unchanged, and two were sold out." While Supplies Last 7:29 AM
"Best PowerMac G4 and AGP Video Card Prices" Low End Mac 10:10 AM
"iPhone suckers test our patience: So how many of you have bought a 3G iPhone? Do you feel like a sucker? If you don't, maybe you will once your first bill arrives." ZDNet Australia 4:42 PM
"Kool and void: The day I became a published Google 'expert'" CNET News.com 3:06 PM
"Chief Yahoo has some breathing room -- for now" MarketWatch 3:00 PM
"Microsoft Navajo (a.k.a. Vista): If you don't install it, or configure it, or use peripherals, or care about performance, or are bothered by dubious security warnings, and use it for just a few minutes in a controlled environment, then Vista is great!" The Small Wave 2:55 PM
"Are Changes Coming in the SaaS World? Where is software-as-a-service headed, and will it ever become widely adopted in the enterprise? That depends on whom you talk to." InternetNews.com 2:29 PM
"Hands-On with the Breathtakingly Geeky BMW 7" PC Magazine 1:44 PM
"10 Ultra-Light Tech Products: Avoid those airline overweight bag fees by packing these lightweight products, from a speaker dock to a camera to an ultramobile PC, and more.s" PC Magazine 1:42 PM
"Hang up and drive: Think driving while talking on the cellphone is safe as long as you use a headset, as new laws require? Stop yammering and read this article." Salon 12:30 PM
"10 essential gadgets for students" ZDNet 11:07 AM
"Is there an open source jobs boom?" ZDNet 11:04 AM
"If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?" ZDNet 10:59 AM
"Google's Blogger top for web-hosted malware: sGoogle has catapulted itself to the top of the ranks of web hosts with the most malware, courtesy of its blogging website Blogger, according to security vendor Sophos." ZDNet Australia 10:53 AM
"China says has more people surfing the Web than US" Associated Press 10:23 AM
"Gateway gives up on direct sales, will go retail-only" Houston Chronicle 9:37 AM
"Microsoft to Spend $2.5 Billion a Year To Keep Pace in Race With Google" Bloomberg News 1:57 PM
"Never Say 'Never': Ballmer Hedges On Reviving Yahoo! Hunt" New York Post 2:10 PM
"Microsoft: What Web Strategy? The software giant left some analysts wanting more detail on plans to turn around its limping online operations after failing to acquire Yahoo" BusinessWeek 10:19 AM
"Microsoft defends costly quest to tap into rich Web media vein" Los Angeles Times 12:26 PM
"Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank" CNET News.com 10:25 AM
"Analysts served up tidbits, spy 'doughnuts's at Microsoft meeting" Seattle Times 12:14 PM
"Microsoft claims Windows 7 is on track: January 2010 launch date 'looking good'" vnunet.com 11:38 AM
"Microsoft: Windows 7 development on track" CNET News.com 10:53 AM
"Vista still struggling to gain enterprise users: A Forrester Research study provides some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January." CNET News.com 10:54 AM
"Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops" ZDNet 11:03 AM
"Microsoft unveils DirectX 11 at GameFest" vnunet.com 11:41 AM
"European regulators clear HP purchase of EDS" Associated Press 12:21 PM
"Hewlett-Packard's purchase of EDS gets EU approval" Reuters 2:58 PM
"HP unveils latest mobile hardware: HP launched a range of new mobile business products in Sydney on Thursday, including laptops, an iPAQ and the company's first mobile thin client." ZDNet Australia 10:54 AM
"Intel knits SoCs roadmap for x86" The Register 11:55 AM
"Intel says Atom chip will boost earnings" Bloomberg News 12:22 PM
"Chizen, former Adobe CEO, named to Oracle board" Associated Press 10:20 AM
"Oracle is grabbing a lead spot in identity management" CNET News.com 3:05 PM
"Researchers redefine the internet blacklist: Security researchers have taken a page out of Google's book in reinventing the blacklist, a tool for blocking internet attacks." ZDNet UK 10:56 AM
"U.S. targets pirated tech products: Agency meets with bay area companies to improve enforcement efforts" San Jose Mercury News 12:22 PM
"The Demise of Name-Brand PCs: Thanks to belt tightening, recession, and cheap netbooks, generic PCs might become the most popular systems of the future." PC Magazine 1:43 PM
"Survey: Will Apple Blow Out iPhone Numbers?" Zach Bass 11:40 AM
"Apple: Expecting Short-Term Weakness" Seeking Alpha 7:33 AM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Juniper's rise continues to lead tech advance/Technology stocks remained on the march in afternoon trading Friday, with Juniper Networks Inc. leading the advance following the company's upbeat second-quarter earnings report." MarketWatch 2:56 PM
"S&P, Nasdaq up as data eases economic fear, Dow dips" Reuters 2:53 PM
"Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports" Associated Press 10:50 AM
"Financial sector pressures blue chips: Stocks turn mixed as tumbling oil prices and solid economic indicators face headwinds from Fannie and Freddie." CNNMoney 2:32 PM
"Markets Creep Slightly Higher: Better-than-expected economic data and a drop in oil prices near a two-month low buoyed the stock market Friday, but the gains were meager." WSJ.com 2:35 PM
"Telecom Stocks: Qualcomm, Nokia, Sprint move higher/Qualcomm Inc. on Friday topped the charts for the second straight day in the telecommunications sector as most stocks rose along with the broader U.S. market." MarketWatch 2:35 PM
"Asia Markets: Battered banks pare weekly gains for indexes/National Australia Bank tumbles on provisions related to U.S. mortgages" MarketWatch 10:07 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe manages partial recovery/European stock benchmarks ended on a mixed note Friday, with financials in retreat after a profit warning from Munich Re and a prediction from Citigroup that the British economy was about to enter a recession." MarketWatch 2:36 PM
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