Thomas E. WeberAs Apple's CEO introduces his new iPhone today, and its market cap passes Microsoft's, the man who infamously fired him, John Sculley, tells The Daily Beast's Thomas E. Weber about his regrets, their rift—and how their partnership could have worked: Jobs should have been CEO, and Sculley's boss, rather than the other way around. Plus, other 1985 board members on Jobs then and now, and where they are today.  read more »

User Awareness is high, which should help minimize problems, experts say

SAN FRANCISCO - The malicious Conficker Internet worm got more aggressive about trying to reach its creators Wednesday, but computer security researchers appeared correct in their predictions that the effects would be muted.

The worm's programming included a change in tactics on April 1: The estimated 3 million to 12 million computers infected by Conficker were told to step up their attempts to "phone home" for commands. But that seemed to be the only sign of life from the bug.  read more »

In tough economic times, some wonder if Apple computers will take a hit

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer recently proclaimed "the tide has really turned back" against Apple computers. The straitened economy would seem to be a strong argument for PCs, which overall cost less than Macs for essentially the same hardware. But is the Mac — the darling of artists, designers and the generally stylish — really starting to lose its appeal? Will self-expression through brand affinity yield to raw economics?  read more »

Conficker has become the boogeyman of the security industry over the last year. The latest variant of the worm, Conficker.C, is programmed to do something on April 1. But what exactly will happen? The scary thing is, no one can say for sure.

The "A" and especially "B" variants of this worm (also known as Downadup) have built a botnet estimated at several million PCs, almost exclusively through exploitation of the MS08-067 vulnerability in Windows. Conficker added some innovative techniques to update itself though a large number of domains, the names of which were algorithmically generated by the program. Because the names were deterministic, it was possible for the DNS authorities (VeriSign, et al) to block the names. With few exceptions, the worm has been unable to spread since that point several weeks ago.  read more »

Chicago (IL) - A new version of Firefox has been released by Mozilla due to the discovery of several security flaws in the browser software. Firefox version 3.0.7, which is the second security update this year, will plug eight different security vulnerabilities, and six of them have been deemed critical, one “high” and one “low” in the four step ranking system established by Mozilla. The six critical bugs were in the Firefox garbage collection routine in the PNG libraries utilized by the browser, and additionally in the layout and JavaScript engines.  read more »

Sunnyvale (CA) – Yahoo introduced a new open location-based services (LBS) platform called Fire Eagle that helps users publish their current location to the Web, while giving them the ability to control how and where their location data is shared. Geodata are shared with authorized applications on the Internet, mobile and desktop applications.  read more »

First Look - Product announcements are always tricky in a the way how you describe a products features in a flashy enough way to attract attention, but remain sufficiently careful to not overstate its features and benefits.  read more »

Calgary (CA) – Voodoo, the boutique end of HP, has been designing crazy computers for a while, and HP’s almost unlimited resources have now allowed it to make an even crazier laptop. We first wrote about the ultra-portable Envy 133 back on June 10th and now take a closer look at Voodoo’s MacBook Air-killer.

With Envy 133, it seems that the engineers wanted to swing for the fences because the notebook is completely built out of carbon fiber, and the way how engineers got multi-touch touchpad to work is just madness. As you can see in the gallery, both the speakers and touchpad are set inside of drilled carbon fiber.  read more »

Chicago (IL) – It was clear yesterday that Mozilla is likely to achieve its goal to become part of the book of Guinness World Records with the most downloaded software within 24 hours. The download pace has slowed considerably on day 2, but allowed the company to cross the 10 million mark in less than 48 hours.  read more »

By Suzanne Choney
MSNBC
updated 8:16 a.m. CT, Tues., June. 10, 2008

They’re the Cadillacs of smartphones, and the choices of the über-hip. How do you decide whether to go the iPhone or BlackBerry route?  read more »

By William J. Astore  read more »

BY SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

(06-04) 10:01 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.  read more »

By BRIAN BERGSTEIN - AP Technology Writer
Edition Date: 06/03/08  read more »

By Scott Hillis

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Reuters) - June has arrived and for Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) fans and investors that means just one thing -- a new iPhone.  read more »

By J.D. BIERSDORFER
New York Times News Service

WINDOWS ON A MAC
Q. what is the easier way to run the windows operating system on intel-based macintosh hardware boot camp or a program like parallels.

A. Both methods of running windows on amac have their advantages. but before you take the plunge you should figure out how an how often you want to run windows.  read more »