Tuesday - January 6, 2009
The revelation Monday that 33 accounts on the Twitter social networking site had been hacked, while others were compromised by a phishing scam over the weekend, highlights what cyber criminals can do. Accounts belonging to Britney Spears, Barack Obama and CNN's Rick Sanchez were hacked, using tools normally accessible only to Twitter's technical support team for the purpose of letting locked-out subscribers reset their e-mail addresses.
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Tuesday - January 6, 2009
Unless Apple is planning on unveiling an iCar, an iHome or an iBrain at Tuesday's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, the media focus will remain squarely on Steve Jobs; his absence, his health, his successors. That's as it should be, even with the "Dear Apple Community" letter from Jobs that the company released Monday, and an accompanying statement of support from Apple's board of directors.
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Monday - January 5, 2009
So 2009 is here at last, and not a moment too soon! Finally we can put another Holiday Season behind us and get back to work. Some of us, of course, are still recovering from the seasonal merriment; others are still pondering gifts they received. To wit: On Digg, Rekzai earned more than 3,340 Diggs and 345 comments for posting a photograph titled, "I like Linux, so my aunt sends me this for Christmas!"
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Sunday - January 4, 2009
It all started with a simple question from Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang late in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. 12. A few days earlier, blogger Chris Brogan had written about his decision to accept $500 from Kmart to find out what's cool to buy at the discount retailer and then write about it.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
As 2008 draws to a close, the time for dreaming of White Christmases, sugar plum fairies and Ubuntu-loaded netbooks is over for another year. Here's hoping everyone got their heart's desire! Now it's time to move on and turn our thoughts to the promise of the upcoming year.
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Monday - December 22, 2008
It was a relatively quiet week on the Linux blogs last week, as the world counted down the final stretch before the holidays. On Digg, the biggest discussion to follow the now-famous Teacher's Letter Controversy -- which we covered last week -- revolved around an Okii Living blog post titled "Is Linux ready for the average user? My wife thinks so."
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Friday - December 19, 2008
It's been a wild ride this week in the Apple-focused blogging world, thanks to Apple's bombshell statement that CEO Steve Jobs would not be giving his usual wildly anticipated keynote address at Macworld in January. In addition, after 2009's show, Apple itself will make no more appearances. All Apple did was put out a dinky little press release, and boom, the blog traffic erupted in a hot rain of speculation.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Kirk Douglas, the square-jawed hero famed for saving the world, getting the girl and in moments of toga-clad inspiration declaring "I am Spartacus!" has a new string to his bow -- as MySpace's oldest celebrity blogger. The 92-year-old actor, who retired from the screen five years ago, is cutting a fresh swath through Hollywood with a page on the social networking Web site.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Sure, it's a survey commissioned by a major tech company, which should trigger "Star Trek"-style alarms in most newsrooms. The headline, though, might draw some journalistic interest considering recent Dow Jones gyrations: "Most Adults Find Internet Access Essential to Daily Life in Today's Economy: Intel Survey."
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Monday - December 15, 2008
A variety of interesting topics are usually discussed on the Linux blogs in an average week, which is why it's often so hard for us here at LinuxInsider to choose a select few to focus on in this column. Luckily for us this time around, last week was no average week.
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Monday - December 8, 2008
There's nothing like the approaching dawn of a new year to make a person sit down and take stock of things. Apparently the folks over at Infoweek were feeling a similar urge last week, if their article titled "Fixing Linux: What's Broken and What To Do About It" is anything to go by.
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