Top Items:
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Windows 7 RC (7100) out early on torrent trackers — While the partner page Microsoft put up a few days back announcing the availability of the Windows 7 RC turned out to be another minor slip-up, the results in Mininova's index are a bit more real. — You guessed it - the Windows 7 RC build (7100) has been leaked.
Discussion:
Hardware 2.0, iGeneration, CrunchGear, Engadget, lockergnome network, Windows 7 News and TechVi
RELATED:
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Go test drive Windows 7 RC (7100) today — If you're like me and watched from a distance leaked builds of Windows 7 fly past like water balloons in a water balloon fight, then the time to join the fun is now. The highly anticipated release candidate (RC) build of Windows 7 has been leaked and its authenticity is entirely undisputed.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple Stores: The big chill — Is there an Apple Store near you? Count yourself lucky, because the days of Apple's (AAPL) aggressive expansion into the branded retail space are over — at least for now. — After opening more than 250 company-owned stores in eight years …
RELATED:
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple retail sheds 1,600 full-time positions — Apple's retail group shed about 1,600 full-time equivalent workers during its second fiscal quarter. — Apple's second fiscal quarter was a blowout considering the state of the economy, but executives noted that the retail division took …
Ted Ullyot / Facebook Blog:
Results of the Inaugural Facebook Site Governance Vote — Today, the Facebook site governance vote ended after a week in which you were able to voice your opinions as to which documents should serve as the foundation for governing the site. On behalf of everyone at Facebook …
RELATED:
BBC:
Facebook users say yes to changes — Facebook users have voted to back changes which give them control over data and content they post on the site. — Early results suggest 75% of those who voted support the proposals. — The vote was triggered by changes Facebook made to its terms and conditions in February.
Discussion:
Switched
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Obama's BlackBerry — President Obama will soon get his souped-up, high-security BlackBerry for use in and around the White House and during presidential travel, according to Obama administration officials. The top-secret BlackBerry 8830 is in the final stages of development …
Discussion:
CNET News, Gadget Lab, Gearlog, ITworld.com, Gizmodo, BerryReview.com and MobileContentToday
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Snow Leopard Server to offer low cost, secure mobile access to iPhone — Apple will leverage the popularity of the iPhone to deliver business users new Mobile Access services in Snow Leopard Server to securely deliver corporate email, contact, calendar, and intranet web services to iPhone …
RELATED:
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide — Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace. The focus of the study was on the differing opinions between generational groups.
Discussion:
SEO and Tech Daily
Renai LeMay / CNET News:
Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X — Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.
Fred / A VC:
Geocities — Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities. That is sad news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first “mega deal” when it was sold to Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.5bn (including the value of the options Yahoo! assumed).
RELATED:
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Software That Copies DVDs to Players Is on Trial — SAN FRANCISCO — RealNetworks says it wants to help increase DVD sales by allowing people to copy their movie discs. Hollywood studios say that idea will only hurt their already struggling business. The two sides square off in a federal court …
Discussion:
CNET News, BetaNews, Download Squad, Digits, SlashGear, Electronista, CinemaTech, Gizmodo, Smalltalk Tidbits …, TechFlash, Associated Press, PC Magazine and Beet.TV
The Official Google Blog:
Try out new features in Google Toolbar Labs — One of the best things about working on the Google Toolbar team is that when someone says “Wouldn't it be great if Toolbar could...,” our answer is usually “Yes! Let's build it!” And then it's just a question of when.
Discussion:
Screenwerk, InformationWeek, Gear Diary, Lifehacker, Google Mobile Blog, ReadWriteWeb, AppScout, All Points Blog, MobileContentToday, TechCrunch and Gadgetell
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Eats World: Global Visitors Shoot Up To 19 Million — Twitter's march towards world domination continues apace. This morning comScore released its global numbers for March, 2009. Worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increased 95 percent in the month of March from 9.8 million to 19.1 million, according to its estimates.
Discussion:
LIVEdigitally
Bill Ray / The Register:
Self-replicating machine replicates — Destroy industry and money and make us all wealthy? Sweet — Free whitepaper - CRM your salespeople will love — Next month will see a new version of the self-replicating RepRap machine, but owners of the existing model won't need to buy a replacement …
Discussion:
MUTR Teaching Resources
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999? — As I quietly lamented (or at least noted) the impending death of GeoCities today, I wanted to double-check my memory that it was once one of the very largest sites on the Web. Yup-ten years ago, in April 1999 …
Discussion:
MarketingVOX, The Technology Liberation …, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard and TechCrunch, Thanks:marieadomingo
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Wikipedia lawsuit could put it on the wrong side of fair use — Wikipedia uses plenty of copyrighted material and trademarks under the doctrine of fair use. But a trademark infringement lawsuit against a couple of artists would put the Wikimedia Foundation on the opposite side of the fair use fight.
Daniel Silva / Agence France Presse:
Boom times ahead for mobile Web access — After a slow start, mobile Web access has finally taken off, thanks in large part to better technology, and it will drive growth in Internet use in the future, industry leaders say. — “More people in the world will have their first interaction …
Discussion:
GigaOM
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
China Pushes Its Own Blue-laser Optical Discs — Chinese manufacturers hope to sell hundreds of thousands of optical disc players for a locally developed next-generation disc format this year, a spokesman for an industry group promoting the format said Friday.
Discussion:
Gearlog
Bkis Blog:
New worm bypasses Gmail's CAPTCHA — On April 22 2009, Bkis Honeypot system discovered a new worm, which we named W32.Gaptcha.Worm. The worm automatically signs up and creates random Gmail accounts for spamming purposes. To do so, it must be able to break Google's CAPTCHA first.
Discussion:
PC World
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Conficker infected critical hospital equipment, expert says — SAN FRANCISCO — The Conficker worm infected several hundred machines and critical medical equipment in an undisclosed number of hospitals recently, a security expert said on Thursday in a panel at the RSA security conference.
Byron Acohido / USA Today:
Cybergangs use cheap labor to break codes on social sites — SEATTLE — It's become the new front in cybercrime: scams and identity-theft programs that attack e-mail accounts and users of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. — To carry out many of these automated attacks …
CBS News:
North Korea To Indict U.S. Journalists — Current TV Reporters Charged With Unspecified “Hostile Acts” After Alleged Border Incursion — (CBS/AP) North Korea's state news agency says the country has concluded an investigation of two detained American journalists and formally decided to indict them.
Business Week:
The Mad Dash to Digitize Medical Records — GE, Google, and others, in a stimulus-fueled frenzy, are piling into the business. But electronic health records have a dubious history — Watch the Video... Neal Patterson likens the current scramble in health information technology …
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Conficker Hype a ‘problem,’ Says FBI Cyber-chief — Mainstream media hype leading up to the Conficker worm's April 1 software update may have distracted people from legitimate cyber threats, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's head of cyber security said Thursday.
