Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Microsoft flaw opened door to scammers; California gets Microsoft to change Vista

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Microsoft flaw opened door to scammers, analysts say
Microsoft Tuesday fixed a bug in its Windows Live ID registration that let users deceptively register a false e-mail address.

California gets Microsoft to change Vista
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday that Microsoft has agreed to make "significant changes" in its new Vista operating system to stay in compliance with a U.S. court agreement in Microsoft's antitrust case.

Vista over the WAN: good but not great
Microsoft gives the boot to latency and other WAN performance problems in its latest client operating system.

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Google turns on solar panels, plans $10 million in grants
Google Monday turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over $10 million in grants to support hybrid cars.

Report: Microsoft will change desktop search
Microsoft will make changes to its desktop search program following a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice by Google, a news report said late Tuesday.

Semel gives up Yahoo CEO title to Yang
Terry Semel ended his six-year run as Yahoo's CEO on Monday, and the company's co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from him, the company said.

HP goes green with new storage systems
HP jumped on the green bandwagon Tuesday with the announcement of three new midrange storage systems and tape drives that it claims can reduce data-center cooling costs by as much as 50%.

Gateway recalls notebook batteries
Gateway is recalling 14,000 batteries used in its notebook PCs after four customers reported that their computers had overheated, a similar condition to the massive battery recall that swept the industry in 2006.

AT&T launches wireless video service
AT&T on Tuesday announced a new service that lets mobile users share video content on their wireless phones while simultaneously having a voice conversation.

U.S. FTC warns of bogus e-mail containing spyware
A bogus e-mail message supposedly sent by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission contains spyware and targets corporate and banking executives as well as consumers, the FTC said Monday.

Toshiba blames recalled battery for laptop fire
Eight months after recalling potentially flammable notebook PC batteries, Toshiba is again urging its customers to trade in the defective units, saying one of its notebooks caught fire May 24.

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Blogs

Buzzblog: How to avoid hiring an American
Keep this video in mind next time someone complains they just can't find qualified American workers for key tech jobs. “Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified U.S. worker," a marketing exec for a law firm advises his audience. And here's the advice if your company happens to be confronted with one of those inconvenient qualified Americans: "find a legal basis to disqualify them."

Today on Layer 8, where the only thing going green here is the sandwich in my desk:
If you are looking for a little help measuring the Greenness of Corporate America, you should check out a tool announced today that scores big businesses environmental efforts. The Climate Counts Company Scorecard lets users factor a company’s track record on climate change into their purchasing decisions for everything from sneakers to computer equipment.

If you haven’t been following this soap opera story, between Microsoft and Immersion (makers of joystick technology), you might enjoy the plot. The case illustrates how clever Microsoft’s legal team can be.

No Ubunto/Microsoft deal
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says he won’t bend to patent scares, but he also hasn’t ruled out future “collaboration” with Microsoft.

In today's Cisco Subnet
John Chambers says the telecoms industry is in "Phase II" and that consumers are driving service providers' deployment of advanced technologies to enable customers to take part in social networks, create wikis and share videos. Chambers also challenges his employees to cancel one business trip this quarter and use collaboration technologies instead. Brad Reese on Cisco blog says that an enhanced Cisco channel partner rollout appears to have confused some partners, and explains how NetFlow Tracker hits triple home run for Cisco VARs and their enterprise customers. Adding to Jeff Doyle on IP Routing's look at EIGRP vs. OSPF, reader Mike Morris says he prefers EIGRP, but the intelligent business decision is often OSPF. Author Expert blogger Denise Donohue asks if SIP trunks for PSTN access are ready for prime time. Cisco Subnet blogger Greg Royal says Cisco's ambition to build its brand in the consumer market has a ways to go.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. 'Italian job' Web attack hits 10K sites
2. The case of the 500-mile e-mail
3. Pressure's on IBM to forgive millions in IT debt
4. Linux Foundation: Microsoft won't sue
5. The dos and don’ts of data breaches
6. Feds choose 10 vendors to secure mobile data
7. Zenoss Core wins test of open source tools
8. Top 15 USB geek gadgets
9. 10 reasons why it’s good and bad to be HP
10. Juniper feels growing pains

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