NEW NET Issues List for 08 Jul 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 08 Jul 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.

There were more interesting tech articles and posts online than normal in the past week, resulting in what may be a record for NEW NET overload -- 88 links for you this week.

Web browsers are the focus of this week's NEW NET meeting. Firefox 3 has been out for a couple weeks with no apparent widespread disastrous side effects. Those cautious surfers who were letting others do the "new version taste-testing" should now consider moving from their old browser to Firefox 3. Luke will lead the discussion tonight with the issues below up for your questions and input:

• Memory usage: better in Firefox 3 than Firefox 2?
• Is Firefox 3 'faster' than other browsers?
• Other pros and cons of Firefox 3
• Browser comparisons using virtual machines
• Alternatives to Firefox 3: IE7, Safari, Opera 9.5, others
• Tweaks, Tips and Add-Ons for Firefox 3

(If we're lucky, Mac/iPhone users will show up to discuss browsers on Apple products!)

Will also likely be discussion related to Andy's new website idea. Maybe even some discussion of items on this week's NEW NET issues list!!!

1. The ‘net

2. Firefoxing away to Version 3 http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/Firefoxing_away_to_Version_3/551-90812-597.html
3. Equipt: Office subscription service ready to go http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9982212-56.html
4. Meraki: free wifi in San Francisco http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/03/meraki-brings-free-wifi-to-100000-san-franciscans/
5. Thank you, Adobe Reader 9! http://blog.micropledge.com/2008/07/adobe-reader-9/
6. BoingBoing: our blog and our rules http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/07/03/boingboing-its-our-blog-and-our-rules/
7. BoingBoing: Violet Blue controversy's implications http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/07/boingboing-blog.html
8. Tips for Working Online with the New Standard, PDF http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080702/tc_pcworld/147890
9. Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gnip_grand_central_station.php
10. Announcing Tech.NewsJunk.Com http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/04/announcingTechnewsjunkcom.html
11. Tune out co-workers, other sounds with SimplyNoise http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9984006-2.html
12. Seesmic Starts Adding Features http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/07/seesmic-starts-adding-features.html
13. Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple http://tinyurl.com/6efw2t (TechCrunch)
14. Downforeveryoneorjustme.com http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/07/06/is-that-web-site-down-or-is-it-just-me/
15. Vivaty Scenes Make AIM and Facebook Chat Virtual Worlds http://mashable.com/2008/07/08/vivaty-scenes/
16. The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/07/importance-of-blog-linking-seems-to-be.html
17. MyYahoo 2.0 Goes Live for All http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myyahoo_20_goes_live.php
18. Linden Labs and IBM Break the Metaverse Barrier, Teleport Across Virtual Worlds http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/virtual_world_interoperability.php
19. Has The Cafe Moved Online? http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/07/has-the-debate.html

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

19. 637 million browser users at risk http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9981954-57.html
20. Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-mcafee-spam-experiment.html
21. Chinese Bloggers Scale The 'Great Firewall' In Riot's Aftermath http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121493163092919829.html
22. Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud! http://tinyurl.com/4mczhp (Washington Post)
23. Groups sue U.S. over cell phone tracking http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C4006938808525747A0049B6CA.html
24. Iran Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iranian_deth_penalty_for_bloggers.php
25. Thieves steal millions from Citibank customers http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982500-7.html
26. Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1418
27. Passport Record System Open To Abuse http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-passports0704.artjul04,0,5384602.story
28. Google, privacy and Street View http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/07/google_privacy_and_street_view.html
29. Google trying to take privacy seriously http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1085
30. Web companies organize massive effort to patch fundamental Internet flaw http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/08/web-companies-organize-massive-effort-to-patch-fundamental-internet-flaw/
31. Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked http://blog.karppinen.fi/2008/07/apple-just-gave-out-my-apple-i.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

32. What if 23 Million People Used Bluetooth? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2324535,00.asp
33. Digital Pens to Write on Any Paper http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html
34. Openmoko Neo FreeRunner on Sale July 4 http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/post-1.html
35. Nokia 6220 Smartphone Released http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080704/tc_cmp/208802507
36. Toshiba Portege G810 http://www.mobiletechreview.com/phones/Toshiba-Portege-G810.htm
37. Where the iPhone failed (and the gPhone might win) http://tinyurl.com/6dxn7h (Business Week)
38. Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/technology/06novelties.html
39. Ultra Mobile PC Buyer's Guide http://tinyurl.com/6mn4bw (InformationWeek)
40. Laptops and Airports: A Bad Mix? http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/07/laptops-and-airports-a-bad-mix/
41. TinyApps: Small Is Beautiful http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/07/tinyapps-small-is-beautiful/
42. $100 rebate on Eee PC 900, lowers price to $449 http://www.liliputing.com/2008/07/asus-offers-100-rebate-on-eee-pc-900.html

Open Source

43. What's Holding OpenOffice Back? http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63684.html
44. Mass-market WiFi router invites Linux hackers http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9390135932.html
45. Linspire CEO defends Xandros buy-out http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9982606-56.html
46. Low-power mini-ITX board runs Linux http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5320707472.html
47. Which Linux Distributions Are Dying? http://codingexperiments.com/archives/149
48. One live DVD, one ton of Linux games http://www.linux.com/feature/139589
49. The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork http://tinyurl.com/5xf3ml (Ars technica)
50. Vista is “OK”, says Ubuntu-converted teenager http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1761

SkyNet

51. Google, the press, and tearing down your heroes http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-press-and-tearing-down-your.html
52. Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076
53. Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-03-n34.html
54. Google Talk comes to the iPhone, Touch http://tinyurl.com/55qr8r (VentureBeat)
55. Google forced to reveal YouTube viewing habits http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4263925.ece
56. Google Under Pressure as App Engine Requests Rise http://tinyurl.com/6ygyoz (PCWorld)
57. Google Maps for mobile with voice search on BlackBerry Pearl http://tinyurl.com/4jsq9c (GoogleMobile)
58. Remote sign out/info to help protect Gmail http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/remote-sign-out-and-info-to-help-you.html
59. Gmail now blocking fake eBay, PayPal e-mails http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080708/20080708005763.html
60. Google Docs Goes Down - How Long is Too Long for You? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_docs_is_down.php

General Technology

61. Think Before You Voicemail http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/05/think-before-you-voicemail/
62. Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us http://tinyurl.com/4tdzek (Ars technica)
63. Five ways to keep your PC cool on a hot summer day http://tinyurl.com/63owp8 (Ars technica)
64. 'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080704/tc_cmp/208802705
65. Atheros connects a wireless world, makes it run faster http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080703/bs_ibd_ibd/20080703newamer
66. Why I'm leaving Forrester http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2008/07/why-im-leaving.html
67. Kid-Proof Your PC with SteadyState http://lifehacker.com/397786/kid+proof-your-pc-with-steadystate
68. NBC to use Olympics as research lab for new media viewership http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080707-nbc-to-use-olympics-as-research-lab-for-new-media-viewership.html

Leisure & Entertainment

69. Microsoft isn't doing all it should to help PC gaming http://tinyurl.com/42zdaj (Ars technica)
70. Sony PS3 Update Locks Consoles, Web Site Attacked http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080703/tc_nf/60596
71. Writers set slate for Strike.tv http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wr_nm/strike_dc

Economy and Technology

72. Blockbuster abandons Circuit City bid http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982618-7.html
73. Tech Giants Join Together To Head Off Patent Suits http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Tech-Titans-Form-Patent-Trust/
74. Nvidia's stock bloodbath - company admits faulty chips, shares plunge 22% http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38237/135/
75. Just how far are you going with FRCP compliance? http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1440
76. Microsoft Crosses A Line http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/microsoft-crosses-a-line/

Civilian Aerospace

77. Eight teams taking up ESA’s Lunar Robotics Challenge http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMGAASHKHF_index_0.html
78. Winners of “Move An Asteroid 2008” International Competition http://www.spacegeneration.org/node/2024
79. Student-Led Satellite Initiative for NASA http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08151_student_satellite.html
80. Star man predicts a space trip in five years http://tinyurl.com/69ycfn (Salford Advertiser)
81. Online game makes anyone a 'black hole hunter' http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/06/online-game-makes-anyone-black-hole_30.html
82. UND unveils new space flight simulator http://tinyurl.com/6mbss3 (Grand Forks Herald)

Supercomputing & GPUs

83. NVIDIA appoints first CUDA center of excellence http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/07/04#firstCUDACoE
84. Desktop supercomputing http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/306874/Desktop+supercomputing.htm
85. A massively parallel future http://www.bangkokpost.com/020708_Database/02Jul2008_data001.php
86. Beyond Graphics – The Present and Future of GP-GPU http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2324318,00.asp
87. Core Convictions http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/22846564.html
88. Implementing Multi-Core: The Devil Is in the Detail http://www.chipdesignmag.com/display.php?articleId=2396

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