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IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software

AterSlash (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Ars Technica had this first. They should get the credit.

MobileMe issue causes Steve Jobs to rethink

Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

MobileMe has had its fair share of problems since its launch last month, and has resulted in Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs giving MobileMe to the executive who heads iTunes, as stated in a memo sent to company employees earlier this week. We have been following this story closely, and it appears that there are [...]

Black Hat: EFF Launches Coders' Rights Website

Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

John Timmer writes on ARS Technica : The Electronic Frontier Foundation is using the Black Hat USA conference, taking place in Las Vegas, to launch a site designed to help security researchers navigate the treacherous legal waters they face when exploring the vulnerabilities in commercial software. The EFF will be making lawyers available at its booth on the conference floor, but the long-term aid...

Gallery: Lenovo hops on the netbook bandwagon - ZDNet

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ZDNet - 4 hours agoLenovo announced it is joining the netbook parade with its new IdeaPad S10 netbook PC. The S10 is powered by the Intel Atom chip and comes with a 10.2-inch screen. PC World Ars Technica

Game, Set, and Match: Martin!

The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | yesterday

An ex parte letter submitted to the FCC in the Comcast Kerfuffle - subject of strong criticism by TLF-friend and friendly sparring partner Harold Feld - got me thinking on another level about the FCC’s recent action against Comcast. Among the accusations against Comcast is that it throttled a P2P conduit for movies because [...]

Steve Jobs Admits that Mobile Me is Still “Not up to Apple’s standards” (Try Hosted Dedicated Kerio MailServer)

InfTek Hosting (Free subscription) | yesterday

Steve Jobs Admits that Mobile Me is Still “Not up to Apple’s standards” Surely releasing the iPhone 3G, App Store, Mobile Me and iPhone Software 2.0 on the same day would result in at least a few mistakes. But nobody could have predicted the overall disaster that the Mobile Me launch ended up being. In [...]

Jobs: Messy MobileMe Launch a ‘Mistake’

Gadgets Future (Free subscription) | yesterday

The first step to change is admitting you have a problem. And according to Ars Technica's report, Steve Jobs is doing that with MobileMe. Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica cites an internal e-mail that Steve Jobs sent to Apple employees, saying the MobileMe launch was "not up to Apple's standards." He lists ways in which the launch could have gone more smoothly, such as rolling out the MobileMe services...

Steve Jobs Admits that Mobile Me is Still “Not up to Apple’s standards” (Try Push Technology Hosting for iPhone)

InfTek Hosting (Free subscription) | yesterday

Surely releasing the iPhone 3G, App Store, Mobile Me and iPhone Software 2.0 on the same day would result in at least a few mistakes. But nobody could have predicted the overall disaster that the Mobile Me launch ended up being. In an internal email to employees, Steve Jobs confessed that Mobile Me was launched [...]

Applea4s ImmobileMe fiasco

iPhone Apps, Hacks & Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday

So… at last we know… In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and "not u 6 Vote(s)

Are X-Box 360 Price Cuts Going To Be Enough?

The Blade (Free subscription) | yesterday

Well the rumor about Microsoft cutting prices on their X-Box 360 in September is now confirmed by some authorities. But my question is will additional price cuts rally a X-Box 360 revival? In my opinion, a price cut is worthy when a company cut prices on a unit but doesn’t cut down on the hardware. Cutting down the hardware while cutting the price is sheer nonsense and is not recognized as a REAL...

Apple’s ImmobileMe fiasco

Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | yesterday

So... at last we know... In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and "not up to Apple's standards." The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch. In addition to needing more time [...]

Last Bytes: Yahoo, Apple, Delta, Rocketboom

Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday

-- Yahoo's vote-counter says it screwed up the proxy vote at the company's annual meeting. [ All Things D ] -- Here's the full email from Apple chief executive Steve Jobs where he calls the MobileMe launch, "not up to Apple standards." [ Ars Technica ] -- In good news for Apple, the company's iTunes music store remains the nation's top music retailer. [ NPD Group ] -- Delta is rolling out broadband...

MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson

Chuqui 3.0 (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson - GigaOM: Steve Jobs, in an internal email seen by Ars Technica, makes clear that he’s upset about the botched launch of MobileMe, Apple’s new online suite of applications that has been plagued with bugs, including being flat-out unavailable to some for days at a time. Or as I have been saying to folks here at work, "just imagine Steve Jobs...

• MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson - GigaOM

NEW NET Issues List for 05 Aug 2008

myDigitechnician (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 05 August 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering. This week we're upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. To connect remotely to the NEW NET meeting tonight, head over to Stickam (www.stickam.com) and connect with newnet2, or go on Skype and

Jobs: MobileMe launch 'not our finest hour'

BetaNews (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

In an internal e-mail sent Monday afternoon by Steve Jobs and subsequently leaked across the Internet, the Apple CEO laments the launch of the service and shakes up management to prevent it from happening again.