LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking  —  In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch.  Based on recent experience, I don’t think so.  —  I recently had reason to use LinkedIn seriously, using my existing network to tap …

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   […]

iPhone Malware Demo Freaking Me Out, Man [Apple]  —  Don’t be too alarmed, but this video shows the iPhone being accessed by terminal using a program installed by a webpage.  Since the program, like all unofficial apps, runs as root, they’ve got access to data stores for mail, call lists …

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Jason […]

Hacking the iPhone … While researching Fast Company’s December/January cover story I ran across a startling claim: some computer security professionals were boasting that they could turn an iPhone into a piece of spyware that can intercept a target’s voice mail and e-mail, hijack its Safari browser …

Source:   Fast Company
Link:   http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2007/11/hacking…

FBN: “Apple Buying AMD!”  Wait, Scratch That.  “Abu Dubai!”  —  At 9:27 this morning, Fox Business Morning for Breakfast co-anchor Alexis Glick eagerly reported Apple (AAPL) had taken an 8% stake in AMD.  Fox’s guest contributor, Charles Payne, immediately analyzed the deal and pronounced it a brilliant move for both parties.

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author: […]

J Allard: Microsoft’s Plan to Be King of All Media  —  In November 1994, I had breakfast with Nathan Myhrvold, then the chief technology officer of Microsoft.  He talked about how the soon-to-be-introduced MSN online service would best America Online.  Central to his thinking was that MSN …

Source:   Bits
Author:   Saul Hansell
Link:   http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/j-allard…

Microsoft: Hallucinating…Or About to Buy Yahoo?  —  I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that Microsoft division president Kevin Johnson is not a moron.  I’m also going to assume that, when Johnson said yesterday that Microsoft plans to grow its Internet search share from 10 percent …

Source:   Breaking News and […]

Look, ma, no servers  —  Robert Scoble notes the rise of “the serverless Internet company” that can launch and run a webwide business through the window of a browser.  He writes of a recent conversation he had with Max Haot, the CEO of Mogulus, a site that lets people produce and broadcast video programs:

Source:   […]

A first look at the Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux  —  Mozilla ruffled some penguin feathers last month when the organization revealed that Firefox 3 would get an extensive visual refresh to maximize integration with Windows and Mac OS X, but not Linux.  After the decision was widely criticized …

Source:   Ars Technica: Open […]

AdSense developer leaves Google  —  By Yi-Wyn Yen  —  Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant’s most profitable ventures has left to start his own company.  —  “I’ve been having the itch to do something entrepreneurial for awhile now …

Source:   FORTUNE: Techland
Author:   Yiwyn
Link:   http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/11/15…

AdSense developer leaves Google  —  By Yi-Wyn Yen  —  Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant’s most profitable ventures has left to start his own company.  —  “I’ve been having the itch to do something entrepreneurial for awhile now …

Source:   FORTUNE: Techland
Author:   Yiwyn
Link:   http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/11/15…