News: Software & Web

• Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google woes
  Nancy Weil
  Aug 29 2008
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  This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country...

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• Sky rockets in flight. Google Maps delight
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  One the most important parts of online mapping tools is the satellite imagery that is used. Right now, the images used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in rival products are all roughly the same. But...

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• Wider implications of the Red Hat breach
  Carl Jongsma
  Aug 29 2008
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  Reports of data losses and system breaches are almost becoming passe but from time to time events happen that take on a life of their own and have effects far beyond what the initial breach would...

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• Ease the Safari-to-iTunes lyric pasting task
  Rob Griffiths
  Aug 29 2008
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  If you enjoy having lyrics with your music in iTunes, you're probably familiar with the tools available to collect those lyrics. These tools include the wonderful (but sadly, no longer available)...

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• Oracle technical forum upgrade plagued with problems
  Chris Kanaracus
  Aug 29 2008
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  Oracle's technical forums have been racked with performance issues all week since the vendor upgraded the system. Forums.oracle.com underwent a "long, long overdue" upgrade last weekend to Jive...

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• The state of the scripting universe
  Lynn Greiner
  Aug 29 2008
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  The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called...

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• Bugs & Fixes: iTunes' CD mounting bug
  Ted Landau
  Aug 29 2008
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  Most often, when Apple releases an minor update to one of its applications, such as iTunes, its purpose is to provide bug fixes and/or add some essential new feature. For example, iTunes 7.7...

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• Facebook tech infrastructure needs constant care
  Kim S. Nash
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every...

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• McCain launches overhauled McCainSpace social network
  Heather Havenstein
  Aug 29 2008
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  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose campaign in recent weeks has stepped up its effort to better embrace Web 2.0 tools, this week relaunched the McCainSpace social network. The newly designed site...

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• Mozilla renews Google cash cow deal
  Gregg Keizer
  Aug 29 2008
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  Mozilla has renewed an agreement with Google Inc. that pays the browser maker for assigning Google's search engine as Firefox's default, Mozilla's former CEO said this week. The three-year deal is...

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