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Tuesday, 28th July 2009

Yahoo's Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk

Multiple reports tonight say that Microsoft and Yahoo! will announce a deal tomorrow wherein Microsoft's Bing will become the new Yahoo! search engine and Yahoo! will sell ads against those search results on its site. There's a whole lot of money in play, but as users we don't think that's the most interesting part of this story. There may be…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

iPhone Jailbreak Irony: Apple's Own History of Phone Hacking

Apple recently countered against the Electronic Frontiers Foundation's request to the US Copyright Office to make an exemption to the DMCA and permit iPhone jail breaking. Apple claims an exemption would leave a phone's baseband processor (BBP) open to malicious hackers. From here, hackers could then circumvent data and call payments, make…

Dana Oshiro comments

Screw the Cloud! Tonido Wants to Put Your Apps on YOUR Computer

Tonido has reviled the whole concept of cloud computing, calling it an "anomaly... in the natural order of things." In an age when virtual computing, cloud server technology, netbooks, and web-based apps control a huge share of the startup economy, this team has decided to pitch consumers on owning, storing, and running all their applications…

Jolie O'Dell comments

OpenID for Google Apps is Here, But Not Everybody's Happy

Google announced today that everyone using Google Apps enterprise or education editions can now use their organization's domain as a federated single sign-on. That means that millions of schools, businesses and other organizations can now use their Apps accounts as an OpenID. For a movement that has seen adoption held back because of confusion…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

IBM Snatches Up Companies Left & Right

Today, IBM announced two acquisitions: source code and application security company Ounce Labs, and SPSS, a provider of predictive analytics. Both purchases arrive on the heels of IBM picking up the privately-held Exeros in May. Downturn or not, IBM isn't picking these companies up on the cheap. SPSS — a publicly traded firm — was…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

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