NEW NET Issues List for 13 May 2008

NEW NET will meet on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, at the Cambria Suites Hotel on the north side of Appleton. Cambria has free wireless, food and beverages. Below is the final list of issues for this week's NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering at Cambria Suites Hotel, 3940 N. Gateway Drive, Appleton Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

1. Real Estate Lists Grow Comfortable With the Web http://tinyurl.com/6evmgf (NY Times)
2. It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay http://tinyurl.com/55hprp (Consumerist)
3. 15 Websites / Services I’d Actually Pay For http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/08/15-websites-services-id-actually-pay-for/
4. Five tools everyone working online should have http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_tools_everyone_working_on.php
5. Yahoo.com Sends a Ton of Talkative Traffic http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_buzz_talkative_traffic.php
6. Once shunned, Wikipedia now a teaching tool http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/tc_afp/canadascienceinternet
7. The long goodbye to the browser http://weblog.infoworld.com/editor/archives/2008/05/web_browser_app.html
8. Why Yelp Works http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/why-yelp-works/
9. EarthLink to pull the plug on Wi-Fi in Philadelphia http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5haSn0o7V8Gy5ZNM2Glw_sOwsshvgD90KVOD80

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

10. Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3795
11. Alluring MP3s, movies hit LimeWire, install malware instead http://tinyurl.com/49ublt (Ars technica)
12. 'Mebroot' proves to be a tough rootkit to crack http://tinyurl.com/65qwhz (InfoWorld)
13. Security industry’s 7 dirty secrets http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/01/7-dirty-secrets-of-the-security-industry_1.html
14. Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11517
15. Click Crime http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/471

Mobile Computing & Communicating

16. Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/09/sneak-peak-at-android-apps-out-of-mit/
17. BlackBerry vs. iPhone http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/blackberry_vs_iphone
18. Music industry hopes upgrades boost mobile sector http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/tc_nm/mobile_dc
19. Paper is passe for tech-savvy South Koreans http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/tc_nm/korea_coupons_life_dc
20. Eye-Fi Adds Geotagging And Hotspot Support http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2304042,00.asp

Open Source

21. Audacity Tutorial part 1 – Recording audio tracks http://linux-audio.net/articles.php?id=25002
22. Wine 1.0 rc1 available http://www.winehq.org/?announce=1.0-rc1
23. Hardy Heron converts an Ubuntu skeptic http://www.linux.com/feature/134672
24. Red Hat lives on the edge with Fedora 9 http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9942865-39.html http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7497650845.html
25. Top 7 Wireless Apps for Linux http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8124

SkyNet

26. Google, Sprint, Cable Companies Join Forces On Wireless Internet Initiative http://searchengineland.com/080507-074758.php
27. Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9941039-80.html
28. Where does Google go next? http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/09/technology/where_does_google_go.fortune/
29. Google Hands Out $1.25 Million To 50 Android App Winners http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/android_winners_are_in_goog_
30. Wikipedia Added to Google Maps http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/05/wikipedia-added-to-google-maps.html

General Technology

31. Early adopters spend more time with Microsoft than Google, Facebook, or Skype http://tinyurl.com/6do68f (TechCrunch)
32. Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain http://tinyurl.com/4e9qjx (Information Week)
33. Toshiba to use Cell processor in future notebook http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9940771-64.html?tag=blog.promos
34. Why AMD Went the Multi-Chip Module Route http://tinyurl.com/5dsfzp (InternetNews)
35. Why is Yahoo so afraid of Microsoft? http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080509_004880.html
36. Teaching Kids Computer Skills and Programming http://tinyurl.com/3qqp8g (Torkington) http://scratch.mit.edu/about
37. MS Office for the Mac: Microsoft listens to its users http://www.macworld.com/article/133398/2008/05/griffiths_vba_office.html
38. Best Computing Solutions: Windows vs. Linux - Part I http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2774

Leisure & Entertainment

39. EA launches Steven Spielberg's 'Boom Blox' http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9937525-52.html?tag=nefd.top
40. Gore Verbinski to direct 'Bioshock' http://www.variety.com/VR1117985365.html
41. There might be gold for techies in Tinseltown http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9941307-7.html
42. Giant Missile Command: The Best Use of Multitouch to Date http://gizmodo.com/389739/giant-missle-command-the-best-use-of-multitouch-to-date
43. Dell Tries to Revive Its Game PCs http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121063491209086661.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
44. Nexuiz shoots to the top of free FPS gaming list http://www.linux.com/feature/133830
45. Dell Quashes U.S. XPS Game PCs, Focuses on Alienware http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006949.html

Economy and Technology

46. As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where the Next Microsoft? http://tinyurl.com/5d29te (Information Week)
47. Circuit City gives up the fight http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9940588-7.html
48. 11 Biz Dev 1.0 Tips http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/11_biz_dev_10_tips.php#more
49. HP to buy EDS for $13.9 billion to compete with IBM http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9244444

Civilian Aerospace

50. Bootstrapping the Moon http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1287
51. Station Astronaut on 'Colbert Report' http://www.space.com/entertainment/080508-expedition17-reisman-colbert.html http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?episodeId=167538
52. Private Space Station Hits Orbital Milestone http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080509-bigelow-genesis1-milestone.html
53. Astronauts help generate enthusiasm for Spaceport http://tinyurl.com/68znnq (Sheboygan Press)
54. Students get preview of Spaceport Sheboygan http://tinyurl.com/3kcuqd (Sheboygan Press)
55. Model Rocketry in Science Fairs http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2008/2008-05-02/feature1/index.html

Supercomputing & GPUs

56. Compilers and More: Accelerating High Performance http://tinyurl.com/56x9nt (HPC Wire)
57. Homegrown high-performance computing http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1930421781;pp;1;fp;4;fpid;4
58. Not Necessarily Parallel http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5954
59. Notes on the state of the RLV industry in 2008 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1126/1
60. Domain-Specific Parallel Programming http://www.computingatscale.com/?p=75
61. SiCortex application workshop http://insidehpc.com/2008/05/13/sicortex-application-workshop/

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NEW NET Issues List for 06 May 2008

NEW NET will meet on Tuesday, 06 May 2008, at the Cambria Suites Hotel on the north side of Appleton. Cambria has friendly and helpful staff, reliable free wireless, food and a variety of beverages. Below is the final list of issues for this week's NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering at Cambria Suites Hotel, 3940 N. Gateway Drive, Appleton Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

1. Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas http://tinyurl.com/4zmqy9 (Dallas News)
2. Walmart.com using Wii Fit to boost Mom's Day sales http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/tc_nm/walmart_wii_dc
3. Hexagon 3D modeling software exports to Second Life http://www.macworld.com/article/133263/2008/05/hexagon.html

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

1. Antivirus holes, browser spies are highlights at Microsoft's BlueHat http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9934712-7.html
2. Pentagon fears trojans, kill switches in foreign-made CPUs http://tinyurl.com/3j3nyv (Ars technica)
3. A new way to think about data encryption: two-level keys http://tinyurl.com/4g8zjf (Ars technica)
4. Keep your data safe at the border http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9935170-46.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

1. Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/adobe-drops-lic.html
2. iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/apple-iphone-3g-tech-wire-cx_bc_0501apple.html
3. Hands on with Brightkite: real-world social networking http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080504-hands-on-with-brightkite-real-world-social-networking.html
4. Kensington Offers IPod, IPhone Battery Packs http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145490-pg,1/article.html

Open Source

1. Open source diva Danese Cooper (video) http://www.linux.com/feature/132699
2. YouTube tools for the Linux desktop http://www.linux.com/feature/133157
3. Getting started with Linux virtualization http://www.linux.com/feature/133018

SkyNet

1. Google: Larry Page on how to change the world http://tinyurl.com/5n7y48 (Fortune)
2. Google Realizes Their 700Mhz Win Wasn't Much of One http://tinyurl.com/3sp9d2 (BroadbandReports)
3. Google sketches up creativity http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/may/05/sketching-up-creativity/
4. Is Google reliable enough? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1028

General Technology

1. Performance showdown: Flash drives versus hard disk drives http://tinyurl.com/43vhdc (ComputerWorld)
2. HP Reveals Memristor, The Fourth Passive Circuit Element http://tinyurl.com/3j2yda (InformationWeek)
3. Microsoft developing 'senior PC' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7375286.stm
4. 'CSI' sleuths out Microsoft's latest technology http://tinyurl.com/6e56f2 (USA Today)
5. Slipstream Service Pack 3 into Windows XP Installation CD http://tinyurl.com/6gn2cl (Lifehacker)
6. Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03brain.html?em&ex=1210132800&en=4f40185128903601&ei=5087%0A

Leisure & Entertainment

1. Disney Enters Robotic Toy Market http://www.gearlog.com/2008/04/disney_enters_robotic_toy_mark.php
2. Young electronic game developers invite users to hold the phone http://wistechnology.com/articles/4704/
3. Microsoft hopes new photo tool will boost Windows http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9931579-39.html
4. Kongregate: Growing Fast and About To Unleash Its Games on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/4jw9sk (TechCrunch)
5. Microsoft’s PopFly makes it easy to create your own arcade games http://tinyurl.com/3pd2lg (VentureBeat)
6. Westin hotels play ball with the Nintendo Wii http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/?p=1818

Economy and Technology

1. Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9cE_gI-aemyNxZQb7YOBC3rsNlQD90EL0PG0
2. Our Tip to Mr. Ballmer: Buy AOL http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/05/aol-could-be-le.html
3. Iron Man: Steve Jobs is even tougher than you think http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080502_004815.html
4. OptiSolar sets sights on world's largest solar farm http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9934538-54.html
5. The Mac in businesses http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_19/b4083036428429.htm
6. Firm fined $45,000 over alleged H-1B favoritism http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9934297-7.html

Civilian Aerospace

1. 'Rockets' pre-launching with Sheboygan Spaceport education week http://tinyurl.com/623zf4 (Sheboygan Press)
2. Dead trees and the final frontier http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1120/1
3. Colorado’s 8th Continent Project http://www.prlog.org/10068477-8th-continent-project-recognized-by-colorado-legislature.html
4. Wanted: an Emirati space tourist http://www.ttnworldwide.com/articles.aspx?ID=1033&artID=7679
5. Whitson describes rough Soyuz entry and landing http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp16/080502peggywhitson.html
6. The Vision for Space Exploration and retirement of the Baby Boomers (part 2) http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1121/1
7. Destination moon http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayitems.asp?id=SEH20080503084601&eTitle=Cover+Story&rLink=0
8. British perspectives on human spaceflight http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1117/1

Supercomputing & GPUs

1. Race Is on to Advance Software for Chips http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/technology/30lab.html
2. Industry, Stanford hope to fix what ails parallel processing http://tinyurl.com/42s2jp (Ars technica)
3. July 10 Workshop on Programming Massively Parallel Processors http://iacat.uiuc.edu/events/PMPP/
4. RapidMind Garners Innovation Award http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/RapidMind_Garners_Innovation_Award.html
5. Moving closer to a 'Matrix'-style virtual world http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24394425/

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NEW NET Issues List for 29 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 29 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

1. FAQ: Making sense of Live Mesh http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9926229-56.html http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_live_mesh_first_look.php
2. Version 1.0 of Yahoo's new platform due later this year http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9928557-80.html
3. Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/25/presdo-the-magical-online-scheduler/
4. Social Tools for the Office Worker http://tinyurl.com/6cosbv (Read/WriteWeb)
5. 5 Offbeat, Free Utilities for Everyday Tasks http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/07/5-offbeat-free-utilities-for-everyday-tasks/
6. Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2008/04/broadband2
7. Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_jajah

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

8. FBI's Net surveillance proposal raises privacy, legal concerns http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9929085-38.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/which-gov-agenc.html
9. Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/04/hundreds_of_thousands_of_micro_1.html
10. Fighting Storm with smog: researchers pollute botnet http://tinyurl.com/3edgs6 (Ars technica)
11. Lessig, Google, Obama, and Jesus: a net neutrality mash-up http://tinyurl.com/434o76 (Ars technica)
12. Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004379751_msftlaw29.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

13. BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27rim.html
14. GPS market at turning point with sliding prices, demand off http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/gps_challenge
15. Mozilla: Fennec to Revolutionize Mobile Browsing http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080424/tc_pcworld/145081

Open Source

16. Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look http://lifehacker.com/383769/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look http://www.crn.com/software/207401927 http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/ubuntu-804-fina.html
17. What Edubuntu can teach your kids http://www.linux.com/feature/132704
18. Open source applications Keep You Safe http://www.linux.com/feature/132245
19. Luminotes: No-frills wiki notebook http://www.linux.com/feature/132297

SkyNet

20. Gdocs: presentations and spreadsheets offline, too http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/04/view-your-presentations-and.html
21. Google Book Search http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/google_book_search
22. The Real Threat to Google http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080427_580014.htm
23. Madison, WI, feeling lucky: Google opens office downtown http://www.madison.com/tct/news/283649

General Technology

24. Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=429
25. Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9927721-7.html?tag=nefd.only
26. HP, Lenovo join Dell in extending Windows XP http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=161
27. :-( Texting shorthand showing up in schoolwork http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_9050629
28. PETA offers $1 M for lab-created meat http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVbtxHwjYAbziT5AMH3IVTi4VthgD907AT480
29. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak
30. Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-05/ff_peakwater
31. Holographic storage, 150GB discs finally coming to market http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080428-holographic-storage-150gb-discs-finally-coming-to-market.html
32. PARC: New way to save energy -- disappearing ink http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9930674-54.html

Leisure & Entertainment

33. Asian history inspires new online games http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc
34. iBand makes music with two fingers... and iPhone http://tinyurl.com/6brn76 (YahooNews)
35. Nintendo bucks tradition, says no price cuts for Wii http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/japan_nintendo
36. Spore Creature Creator Launches June 17 (Spore is a potential trend-setter and catalyst for a $100 million dollar product family – watch for ways to leverage it and participate in its mini-economy) http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9928751-7.html

Economy and Technology

37. Why Steve Jobs is buying PA Semiconductor http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080425_004775.html
38. Apple's iPod Works Magic on Mac Sales http://tinyurl.com/4xg9qp (TheStreet)
39. NVIDIA: GPU v. CPU http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9929197-7.html http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36889/118/
40. E-Trade CFO and general counsel resign http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080426/ap_on_hi_te/e_trade_executives_resign
41. Yelp Lets Local Businesses Fight Back http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/28/yelp-lets-businesses-fight-back/
42. McKinsey surveys the new business software landscape http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/04/surveying_the_n.php
43. Promotions Could Overtake Display and Search Says Report http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3629310

Civilian Aerospace

44. Team America Rocketry Challenge - 2008 teams picked http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/HSblog.php?itemid=6216
45. The Future of Space Sports http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080425-space-station-sports.html
46. New Mexico spaceport still needs FAA license http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24297335/
47. Swedish City Gears Up For Virgin Galactic Spaceport http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/swedish-city-ge.html
48. $100m moon mission ultimate adventure http://www.business24-7.ae/cs/article_show_mainh1_story.aspx?HeadlineID=6033

Supercomputing & GPUs

49. Multicore parallel programming: please do it right this time http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1900025190.html
50. Extending 10 Gigabit Ethernet http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Extending_10_Gigabit_Ethernet_to_the_Edge.html
51. Fast N-Body Simulation with CUDA http://media.hpcwire.com/documents/nbody_gems3_ch31%5B1%5D.pdf
52. Interview with Donald Knuth (including many-core processor rant) http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
53. Intel to build supercomputers with Cray http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37166/135/

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NEW NET Issues List for 22 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 22 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

1. Social Networking Could Kill web search as we know it http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4259135.html
2. Six Apart's 'Blog It' Turns Facebook Into a Fire Hose http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/six-apart-launc.html
3. Zoho can win in second place http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=371 http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9920138-80.html
4. Encyclopedia Britannica free for bloggers http://tinyurl.com/5vvysx (TechCrunch)
5. Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!5359.entry
6. eBay's Skype: what went wrong, and who can fix it http://tinyurl.com/5xfkbd (Ars technica)
7. Skype to offer unlimited overseas calls http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9924123-7.html
8. Live Mesh week: Ray Ozzie’s biggest bet since Groove? http://tinyurl.com/3oohbh (LiveSide)
9. Start Pages: The Next Social Networks http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/start_pages_the_next_social_networks.php
10. Dimdim: A good, free, open source Webex competitor http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9912537-2.html
11. Hands-on with SlideRocket presentation service http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9901766-2.html
12. Intel's Mash Maker: Mashups for the Rest of Us http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9921313-7.html
13. (Mostly) free software for getting together on the Web http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545453.html?industryid=47079
14. Grou.ps: All Your Collaboration Tools In One Place http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/22/groups-all-your-collaboration-tools-in-one-place/
15. Shelfari to Bring Authors and Readers Together http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/21/shelfari-hopes-to-bring-authors-and-readers-together-over-wikis/
16. Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future? http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0&print=true http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

17. Defenseless on the Net http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080415_792943.htm
18. PayPal to fight phishers by blocking old browsers http://tinyurl.com/525gpb (Ars technica)
19. New airport scanner peeks through clothes http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004357441_scan18.html
20. Wii and iPhone browsers could allow phishing http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9922824-57.html
21. Woman accused of using RootsWeb to steal IDs of dead people http://tinyurl.com/4vh8dn (Ars technica)
22. Laptops fair game for airport customs searches http://tinyurl.com/5ofn8l (SFGate)
23. Microsoft sees big jump in Trojan downloaders http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9925077-7.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

24. $549 Eee PC 900 to hit U.S. May 12 http://tinyurl.com/5k3omm (ComputerWorld)
25. Papyrus: student eReader http://www.thegreenergrass.org/2008/04/papyrus.html
26. Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball http://tinyurl.com/4t2ab8 (TechCrunch)
27. Eee! A New Cellphone! http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/21/cellphone-eee-asus-tech-wire-cx_ew_0422asus.html

Open Source

28. Red Hat Skips Consumer Linux Desktop http://tinyurl.com/4x3ezp (PCWorld)
29. Microsoft, Novell Tag-Team Against Chinese Distros http://tinyurl.com/65beee (eCommerceTimes)

SkyNet

30. Google-Backed Solar Startup Picks Up $130 Million http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/04/solar_thermal
31. Google Apps a great choice for small-medium Mac shops http://tinyurl.com/47mt8q (ComputerWorld)
32. Academia's big guns fight 'Google effect' http://education.guardian.co.uk/librariesunleashed/story/0,,2275375,00.html
33. Google Summer of Code 2008 http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted-student-proposals.html

General Technology

34. AMD going to 45 nm; 12 core package? http://blogs.zdnet.com/processors/?p=162
35. Intel cuts quad-core prices http://blogs.zdnet.com/processors/?p=163
36. New WD VelociRaptor Hard Drive Cruises Through Speed Tests http://tinyurl.com/3rptjp (Washington Post)
37. Windows XP SP3: A quick, painless upgrade http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9924689-57.html?tag=nefd.lede

Leisure & Entertainment

38. 'The Sims' franchise hits 100 million units sold http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9920327-52.html?tag=nefd.top
39. Up close with Shigeru Miyamoto and Wii Fit http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9922578-7.html

Economy and Technology

40. Tesla files trade secret theft lawsuit against competitor http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24165227/
41. IBM Acquires Storage De-Duplication Company Diligent http://tinyurl.com/6ewtvg (PCWorld)

Civilian Aerospace

42. Next Space Tourist to Take Custom Snapshots of Earth http://www.space.com/news/080416-spacetourist-earth-portraits.html
43. College Rocketeers Nationwide to Fly Rockets in North Alabama http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2008/M08-049.html
44. Long Space Missions Risk Cancer, Premature Aging http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080415-space-radiation-risk.html
45. Rocket Racing League Sets Date for Exhibition Race http://www.space.com/news/080414-rocket-racing-exhibition-date.html

Supercomputing & GPUs

46. CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 1 http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/207200659;jsessionid=0UQCLP52MZM5AQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN
47. GPU supercomputer: Nvidia Tesla cards to debut in Bull system http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37070/135/ http://newsblaze.com/story/2008042202130300001.pnw/newsblaze/HIGHTECH/High-Tech.html
48. Physics for the masses http://www.techradar.com/blogs/article/physics-for-the-masses-323649
49. Computing at Scale http://www.computingatscale.com/?p=73
50. MPI in Thirty Minutes http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5759/
51. RapidMind Platform Accelerates HD Video Transcoding http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2285942.html
52. Allinea Tools Offer Path to Parallel Programming http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2293071.html

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NEW NET Issues List for 15 Apr 2008

Below is theNEW NET final list of issues for the week of 15 April 2008 (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology).

No meeting this week because of a skiing injury and the required surgery and recovery activities of one of the NEW NET main team members. See you next week!

The ‘net

1. Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop http://tinyurl.com/5wfcr5 (Read/WriteWeb)
2. How Google is putting us back into the Stone Age http://tinyurl.com/4mbemn (Zooie’s Blog)
3. Microsoft Introduces Tool for Avoiding Traffic Jams http://tinyurl.com/3jppqu (NY Times)
4. American Journalist/Student Uses Twitter To Bust Out Of Egyptian Jail http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_8942859

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

1. Virtualization's Dark Side http://tinyurl.com/3qg4gv (Forbes)
2. Infected USB Devices on the Rise http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080415/bs_nf/59274
3. The New E-spionage Threat http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htm

Mobile Computing & Communicating

1. Wi-Fi poised for pilot flights at 4 airlines http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/14/BUB41043AJ.DTL
2. 'Jisus' Eee-alike sub-notebook to use Chinese Atom-smasher http://tinyurl.com/5d5bdh (Register) (background article about the Loonsong CPU: http://www.linux.com/feature/119890)

Open Source

1. My kid hates Linux http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1626
2. MySQL upgrade now slated for June http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080415/tc_infoworld/98324

SkyNet

1. Ex-Googler view of the web: We need a Wikipedia for data http://bret.appspot.com/entry/we-need-a-wikipedia-for-data
2. Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=490 http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144505/salesforce_announces_integration_with_google_apps.html http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/google_salesforce_deal_shows_google_not_insane_microsoft_disruption_continues

General Technology

1. Segway's new RMP! (watch the video) http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/segways_new_rmp.html
2. Windows is not collapsing, at least not in the next few years http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8461
3. The Coming of the Holodeck http://tinyurl.com/6hh7hx (NY Times)
4. Their passion is Windows XP http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080413/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_save_xp
5. Seagate makes good on solid-state drive patent threats http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080415-seagate-makes-good-on-solid-state-drive-patent-threats.html

Leisure & Entertainment

1. Yahoo extends Flickr with video http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9914495-7.html?tag=nefd.lede
2. Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0 and Adobe TV http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_releases_media_player_tv.php

Economy and Technology

1. Meet Facebook's new number two http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/technology/facebook_sandberg.fortune/
2. Blockbuster bids $1 billion for Circuit City http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1fYqj5X5RG6UrI6kk9jeJfOg7jwD901JIG80
3. He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) http://tinyurl.com/5g6la6 (NY Times)

Civilian Aerospace

1. SpaceX’s Musk Competes In Space Race http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-24448915.htm
2. Space Industry Symposium Begins http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/08/ap4868566.html
3. Introducing the Committee for the Advocacy of Space Exploration http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1102/1
4. The Vision for Space Exploration and the retirement of the Baby Boomers http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1106/1
5. Multiple Student Space Prizes http://spaceprizes.blogspot.com/2008/04/multiple-student-space-prizes.html http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/07/866971.aspx
6. Commercial Space Hasn't Yet Landed Big VC Investments http://tinyurl.com/3sj239 (CNN)

Supercomputing & GPUs

1. NVIDIA Powers Hardware-Accelerated SPICE Simulator http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2280819.html
2. Cinnafilm Unveils Real-Time Film Look System http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2278573.html
3. Supercomputing With Video Cards: NVIDIA Milwaukee Tech Café http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2277255.html
4. TACC Hosts 2nd Annual Summer Supercomputing Institute http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2274316.html
5. SC08 Poster Submissions Deadline Is July 31 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2278494.html
6. SiCortex Gets Personal (not x86, might facilitate new parallel prgmg paradigms) http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2280922.html
7. Response to 'The Dangers of COTS Supercomputing' http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2279160.html
8. RapidMind Platform Accelerates HD Video Transcoding http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2285867.html
9. Intel`s Looming Battle with Nvidia http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Intels-Looming-Battle-with-Nvidia/
10. What is the Cost of Performance? http://tinyurl.com/5ohxzw (Interactive Supercomputing)

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NEW NET Issues List for 08 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 08 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

1. The 101 most useful websites http://tinyurl.com/ys4z84 (Telegraph)
2. Comcast launches 50Mbps broadband in Minneapolis http://tinyurl.com/2aocno (Ars technica)
3. The Power of Organizing Without Organizations http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-04-1.ars
4. Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social media http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=439
5. Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/05/powerset-will-launch-in-coming-weeks/
6. Scrabble launches on Facebook: Yanks need not apply http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9912587-36.html?tag=newsmap
7. Tech news: breaking the Techmeme habit http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/breaking_the_techmeme_habit.php
8. Congressional hearing in Second Life and DC http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_8779871
9. Yahoo news guru Budde joins DailyMe start-up http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911490-7.html
10. Navajo Nation to lose Internet signal http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_hi_te/navajo_internet_shutdown
11. For some reason, Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9912520-60.html

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

12. DHS blinks on Real ID: No hassles on May 11 http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9909928-38.html?tag=nefd.pop
13. Internet Providers Quietly Tracking Web Use http://tinyurl.com/56bsjr (Washington Post)
14. What's in your security toolkit? (read the forum posts…) http://tinyurl.com/2gfuwx (Ars technica)
15. Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_status_check_a_guide_to_openid.php
16. DRMed Kindle e-books vs. unshackled music in standard MP3 format http://tinyurl.com/3rme8m (TeleRead)
17. A class of copyright thieves? A lawsuit over lecture notes http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-aclass-of-copyright-thieves-a-lawsuit-over-lecture-notes.html
18. Big Content in worldwide "whisper campaign" against Fair Use http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080407-patry-copyright-owners-wants-rights-expanded-to-were-rabbit-size.html
19. Kraken Botnet Twice the Size of Storm http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1

Mobile Computing & Communicating

20. Yahoo unveils voice search http://www.mercurynews.com/portal/business/ci_8793463?_loopback=1
21. AT&T Jumps on Board with Google's Android http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080403/tc_pcworld/144099
22. Nationwide iPhone shortage reported http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9908322-37.html?tag=newsmap
23. iPhones to international grey market? http://tinyurl.com/36jga9 (AlleyInsider)
24. Germany iPhone drops to €99 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120731459898689751.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
25. Thin Intel Netbook to vie with MacBook Air? http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9912339-64.html
26. HP strikes chord with Mini-Note PC http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9912854-7.html?tag=

Open Source

27. Gartner: Open source will quietly take over http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm
28. Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move http://seekingalpha.com/article/71145-microsoft-s-savvy-open-source-move
29. 40 Ways to Get Far More Out of Firefox http://ostatic.com/158834-blog/over-40-proven-ways-to-get-far-more-out-of-firefox

SkyNet

30. Larry Brilliant: the Guru of Google http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19968512/the_guru_of_google
31. Gmail being throttled, blocked by some anti-spam vendors http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-gmail-being-throttled-blocked-by-some-anti-spam-vendors.html
32. Google to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick http://tinyurl.com/3akkes (NY Times)
33. Google grants $273.3 M in free AdWords http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/google-grants-2733-million-in.html
34. Google's Users are the Real Commodities - Pt. 1 http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/04/googles_users_a_1.html
35. Google Gears: How Important is Offline Access? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_important_is_offline_access.php
36. App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/app-engine-host-your-python-apps-with-google.html

General Technology

37. Aiming for a Virtual End to PC Headaches http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/aiming-for-a-virtual-end-to-pc-headaches/ (here’s a pdf that explains the Moka approach to computing: http://www.moka5.com/papers/nsdi05.pdf)
38. Microsoft's Surface moves beyond demoware http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9908051-56.html
39. Science for the masses: NYC to host the World Science Festival in May http://tinyurl.com/2hp577 (Ars technica)
40. WinXP status http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9075062
41. 10 impossibilities conquered by science http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn13556&print=true
42. PopURLs: a look at tech news http://blue.popurls.com/
43. Cell phoning from home pits WiFi against femtocells http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-cell-phoning-from-home-pits-wifi-against-femtocells.html

Leisure & Entertainment

44. Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US http://tinyurl.com/2ddssb (Ars technica)
45. Record Labels and MySpace Cut a Deal http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_15/b4079032487991.htm
46. The geeks were right; music labels bow to technology http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911721-7.html
47. 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos http://tinyurl.com/2ke58e (NY Times)
48. Quake 3 for iPod Touch / iPhone http://www.9to5mac.com/quake-3-iphone-ipod-touch
49. Wal-Mart Abandons Windows DRM, Sony/BMG and Warner http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/wal-mart-abando.html

Economy and Technology

50. Microsoft CEO sets April 26 deadline for Yahoo deal http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080405/tc_nm/yahoo_microsoft_dc
51. Zillow Disrupts Lending Market With Mortgage Marketplace http://searchengineland.com/080403-092734.php
52. IBM and Linden Lab to create enterprise-safe virtual worlds http://tinyurl.com/ytpcsw (VentureBeat)
53. Companies struggle as Safari pops up on networks http://tinyurl.com/48opfk (InfoWorld)
54. A new day for Macs in the enterprise? http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080404/tc_infoworld/97429
55. Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/04/strategy_and_the_macro_crisis.html
56. The next bubble http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908
57. Jive's Clearspace: Using Web 2.0 tools to avoid e-mail in business http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911489-7.html http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace
58. AMD laying off 10% of workforce, cuts revenue estimates http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080408/ap_on_hi_te/amd_outlook

Civilian Aerospace

59. Entrepreneur talks space travel http://tinyurl.com/4txm27 <