NEW NET Issues List for 26 Jun 2007

Below is the final list of issues for the Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 pm weekly gathering. The Stone Yard is the site of today's tech enthusiast meeting, located at or near W3010 Edgewood Trail, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. The reason for the "at or near" prepositional phraseology is because the address doesn't seem to work particularly well with online maps from Google, Mapquest, Yahoo or MSN. However, Andy M's directions are to take Ballard Rd north from Hwy 41, hang a right on JJ/Edgewood at the light by North High School, then The Stone Yard is on that street just past The Player's Choice.

The ‘net

1. Internet Radio Dies Today http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/06/25/internet-radio-dies-today/
2. Yahoo Acquires College Sports Network Rivals.com http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-its-official-yahoo-acquires-rivalscom/
3. Virtual Goods: the next big business model http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/20/virtual-goods-the-next-big-business-model/
4. Real economy thrives in virtual world http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070621/wr_nm/videogames_entropia_dc
5. Virtual Goods Summit: Making Virtual Economies Work http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/06/liveblogging--2.html
6. Virtual Items - Mainstream or Not? http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/06/liveblogging--3.html
7. Plaxo 3.0, the new “Switzerland” of social networks, but… http://scobleizer.com/2007/06/24/plaxo-brings-out-new-contact-manager-but/
8. LinkedIn To Open Platform In Response To Facebook http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/24/linkedin-to-open-platform-in-response-to-facebook/
9. Simple Spark: A Catalog Of Web Applications http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/20/simple-spark-a-catalog-of-web-applications/
10. IBM, MS feel Google apps heat http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070621/tc_infoworld/89535
11. 9/11 Simulation Taxes Purdue Servers http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/911-simulation-taxes-purdue-servers/
12. Top Web Apps in Canada http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_web_apps_in_canada.php
13. Full Screen Web Photo Browsing With PicLens http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/26/full-screen-web-photo-browsing-with-piclens/

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

1. US Homeland Security still infected with Trojans? http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/US-Homeland-Security-still-infected-with-Trojans-/0,130061744,339278884,00.htm?r=2
2. McAfee: Infrastructure, digital home attacks coming http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070620/tc_infoworld/89510
3. Sneaky Web Apps to Get The Stealth Treatment http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3685076
4. Google: 'We all have to invent the wheel' http://news.com.com/2009-1002_3-6189397.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

1. iPhone mania nears fever pitch http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070620/tc_usatoday/iphonemanianearsfeverpitch
2. Apple builds hype for iPhone with less http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070620/tc_nm/apple_iphone_advertising_dc
3. iPhone Frenzy Will Tempt Hackers To Break Apple's Security http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070622/tc_cmp/199906108
4. The Onion: iPhone special features http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/apples_new_iphone
5. Hands on with Toshiba's light laptop http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9023258

Open Source

1. Welcome to Open Source 2.0 http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000240
2. Is Open Source Dying? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2148866,00.asp
3. Mono Silverlight implementation emerges after epic hackathon http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070622-mono-silverlight-implementation-emerges-after-epic-hackathon.html
4. Open Source is Not Innovative http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-r-keith-sawyer/open-source-is-not-innova_b_53256.html

SkyNet

1. Google Translator Dictionary http://translate.google.com/translate_dict?hl=en
2. How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google http://blogs.business2.com/startups/2007/06/zenter_acquired.html
3. The Google phone revealed http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014178
4. EBay to Advertising on Google But at Smaller Scale http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133330-c,adsvisitortracking/article.html
5. Google To Acquire GrandCentral http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/24/google-to-acquire-grand-central-for-50-million/

General Technology

1. Seagate joins the terabyte disk club http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9025686
2. Fear and Loathing in IT: iPhone and Macintosh http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070622/tc_zd/210165
3. Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6192065.html
4. Rivals torture consumers via Microsoft http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/20/microsoft_desktop_search_unfair/
5. Dell Lets Users Refuse 'Bloatware' http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070621/tc_pcworld/133297
6. Samsung joins 1.8-inch 64GB SSD club http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13148/1103/
7. Xerox's Latest Prints as Little as Possible http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2147601,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
8. I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/

Leisure & Entertainment

1. Strategy Game Pits Players Against Desktop Invasion http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117987060189311315-X7F9b2kgxKbL1y0fZbnAHkOurR0_20080619.html
2. Nintendo's Wii Is the Best Product Ever http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070620/tc_zd/210070
3. Creative's Bitty Player Gets a Screen http://blogs.pcworld.com/digitalworld/archives/2007/06/creatives_bitty_1.html
4. Creative TravelSound ZEN Stone http://www.fareastgizmos.com/mp3/creative_travelsound_zen_stone.php

Economy and Technology

1. Immigrants Fuel Tech Boom http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1759%2C2148250%2C00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
2. Children Of The Web http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_27/b4041401.htm

Civilian Aerospace

1. Volunteers Sought for Simulated Mars Mission http://www.space.com/news/070620_mars_500.html
2. Staying sane on a trip to Mars http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/06/24/2003366720
3. Space Revolution Weekly News blog http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/18/202437/518 (check this out if you’re into space)
4. SpaceStationSim 2.0 Video Game Released http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/06/prweb533833.htm
5. Sky’s No Limit: Personalizing Air and Space Travel http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2007/06/22/skys-no-limit-personalizing-air-and-space-travel/
6. X Prize Cup Announces Lunar Lander Challenge Competitors http://www.space.com/news/070621_xprize_challenge.html

Supercomputing & GPUs

1. NVIDIA takes on the supercomputing market with Tesla http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070621-nvidia-takes-on-the-supercomputing-market-with-tesla.html
2. Nvidia Expands From Gaming to High-Performance Chips http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133195-c,chips/article.html
3. The chip sector's developing turf war http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci_6192940
4. Wall Street Rides HPC Into the Future http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1625544.html
5. Wolfram Research Launches Parallel Computing Toolkit 2.1 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1622963.html
6. Star-P Helps Ohio Supercomputer Center Bring HPC to SMBs http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1620623.html

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