NEW NET Issues List for 10 Jun 2008

NEW NET will meet on Tuesday, 10 June 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. Lingro: Possibly The Coolest Dictionary and Translation Service We've Ever Seen http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/lingro_dictionary_translation.php
2. Generation Y - Welcome To Their World http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gen_y_welcome_to_our_world.php
3. Mars Lander 'Tweets' at Space Fans http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4988839&page=1

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

4. Tech Problem Stumps Yahoo, Forces Mail Features Rollback http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080610/tc_pcworld/146943
5. Billion Dollar Market For Malware Authors http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=329321&promo=100601
6. Malware on legit sites poses most risk to users http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/751
7. Ransomware Encrypts Victim Files With 1,024-Bit Key http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/ransomware_encrypts_victim_fil.html?nav=rss_blog

Mobile Computing & Communicating

8. HTC Touch Diamond first-impressions http://www.phonemag.com/htc-touch-diamond-unboxing-first-impressions-063095.php
9. HTC’s Teeter shows off how physical feedback can immerse you in a game http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1168
10. Six Questions About the New iPhone http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/06/four_questions.html
11. MobileMe: iPhone finally gets OTA syncing – for a price http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1847
12. Apple's MobileMe Will Crush Microsoft and Google (If it Works) http://www.crn.com/software/208402978
13. Apple may soon be free from AT&T http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-9964695-17.html
14. Apple answers call for iPhone applications http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9964401-2.html
15. iPhone 3G is faster, but AT&T raises rates http://www.macworld.com/article/133872/2008/06/fasternotcheaper.html

Open Source

16. Acer Sees Linux as Key to Low-cost Laptops http://tinyurl.com/5z2vnl (PC World)
17. Using Snort: Part 1: Installation and configuration http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-snort1/
18. Enable circular scrolling on a laptop’s synaptics touchpad http://tinyurl.com/6hz3go (DigiWanderlust)
19. Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 8.04 http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-studio-8.04

SkyNet

20. Google's experimental Gmail toys http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7441132.stm
21. Gmail Labs: The Mouse That Roared http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/07/the-mouse-that-roared/
22. Kaiser Chooses Microsoft Over Google For Personal Health Records Initiative http://searchengineland.com/080609-115807.php
23. Do You Trust Google to Resist Data Mining Across Services? http://tinyurl.com/5venkn (ReadWriteWeb)
24. Google Result Offers You to "Skip Intro" http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-10-n16.html
25. Google Docs to Add PDF Storage http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-docs-to-add-support-for-pdfs.html

General Technology

26. Nature Gave Him a Blueprint, but Not Overnight Success http://tinyurl.com/6657by (NY Times)
27. AMD's ATI XGP Powers External Graphics From a Laptop http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080605/tc_nf/60160
28. AMD Launches Puma Platform for Gaming, HD Laptops http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080604/tc_nf/60124
29. AMD Pushes 'Budapest' to Market http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/AMD-Pushes-Budapest-to-Market/
30. Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC World Upside Down? http://tinyurl.com/3ljkz3 (NY Times)

Leisure & Entertainment

31. Stewart and Colbert have come to Hulu http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9964430-36.html
32. Disney puts movies online for free http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/06/wonderful-world.html

Economy and Technology

33. The big get bigger as Verizon swallows up Alltel http://tinyurl.com/3phccv (Ars technica)

Civilian Aerospace

34. Burt Rutan, Designer Of SpaceShipOne, Steps Down as Scaled President http://www.space.com/news/ap-080605-burt-rutan-steps-down.html
35. Virgin Galactic will roll out mega-mothership http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-06-09-virgin-galactic-mothership_N.htm

Supercomputing & GPUs

36. When to use in-socket accelerators http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/In-Socket_Accelerators__When_to_Use_Them.html
37. Application Performance Has Chased Multicore's Speed Right Over a Cliff http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/19582529.html
38. What's next for the x86? http://tinyurl.com/5aecbw (ComputerWorld)
39. LabView poised for parallel role http://preview.tinyurl.com/5na99s (EETimes)