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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