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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast...- more about Larry Dignan »
ZDNet Resources
- News to know: Hotspot insecurity; VMware Fusion; Microsoft's iPhone
- Notable headlines:George Ou: Hamster plus Hotspot equals Web 2.0 meltdown.Ryan Naraine: Blue Pill Project extends VM rootkit cat-and-mouse tussle. OpenBSD team mocked at first ever 'Pwnie' awards.House OKs billions for federal science, tech projects.Larry Dignan: VMware Fusion for OS X ready to lift off. Gallery right.Dan Farber: The future of...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Podcast: News to know midday: Next Web; Green data centers; Office for Mac; Amazon Fresh
- On today's podcast: Riffs on the next big Web thing and green data centers. Office 2008 for the Mac is delayed. Amazon dabbles in grocery delivery.
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- News to know: Virtual worlds; Green data centers; Black Hat; IT failures
- Notable headlines:Dan Farber: The future of virtual worlds.The third Web wave--two degrees of separation. Denise Howell: AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system.Complexity and the greening of the datacenter.Harry Fuller: Green: tech and VC money converge.Michael Krigsman: Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure. Transparent Failure.David...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- News to know: iPhone software update; FCC and open wireless; Facedown
- Notable headlines:Jason O'Grady: iPhone software update 1.0.1 released. Gallery below.Ryan Naraine: Apple monster update fixes iPhone, Safari, Mac OS X flaws.FCC approves some open wireless requirements. Google public policy blog: Signs of real progress at the FCC.Dan Farber: Facebook becomes Facedown. Techmeme. Facebook, Tagged and Bebo outpacing MySpace growth rate.Mary...
- Tags: News to know, Google, General, Facebook, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Podcast: News to know midday: Consumer driving Microsoft; Firefox update; Sun's quarter
- On today's podcast: Is the consumer really driving technology? Ray Ozzie thinks so. Firefox updates its browser to fix a flaw. Sun skeptics abound.
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- News to know: Mozilla patches Firefox; Vista hot fixes; Microsoft Works as a service
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Google hires browser hacking guru.Mozilla fixes its end of URL protocol handling saga. Ed Burnette: 10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploit.David Berlind: Technology Shakedown: McAfee's A/V software runs amok on Windows Vista's tray.Mary Jo Foley: Leaked Vista hot fix list provides SP1 clues....
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Podcast: Microsoft as a service; Vista fixes; Xerox green paper
- On today's podcast: Microsoft Works to become ad supported. New Vista packs provide updates that were supposed to be in SP1. Xerox rolls out 'green' paper; Will you buy it?
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- News to know: U.S. turns back hacker; Realtek data corruption; Facebook; Leveraging Linux
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: German hacker denied entry into U.S. for Black Hat training. Halvar Flake: I've been denied entry to the US essentially for carrying my trainings material.George Ou: Realtek network driver silently corrupts data.Paul Murphy: Leveraging Linux to sell yourself.Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week right.Jason O'Grady: No...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- News to know: Microsoft's strategy; Yahoo's search; Torture tests; Twitter funding
- Notable headlines:Life without Google: Can Yahoo regain search share? Gallery right.Mary Jo Foley: Multiple Microsoft search refreshes due over the 12 months. Ozzie spells out the Live platform layers. Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source.Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall. Windows...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- News to know: Free security apps; Apple earnings; $150 laptop; Business.com sold
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Some great security apps are still free. Gallery: Ten free security utilities you should already be using right.Larry Dignan: Apple delivers strong earnings; Countdown to 1 million iPhones on hold; Outlook conservative. Apple earnings soar as iPhone shipments revealed. Apple statement.Jason O'Grady: iPhone battery tips from Apple.Judge...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Podcast: News to know midday: Disaster recovery; Amazon; P2P meets Congress
- On today's podcast: San Francisco outage indicates holes in disaster recovery plans. Amazon delivers. Congress frets about P2P.
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- News to know: SF power outage; P2P and national security; Amazon shines
- Notable headlines:Techmeme: Power outage in San Francisco and why a bunch of sites including ZDNet for a time were down. Dan Farber: Pardon our interruption in programming.Congress: P2P networks harm national security.George Ou: Congress and the Feds should clean up their own act. Christopher Dawson: More anti-file-sharing rhetoric in Washington.Review:...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- News to know: Wither desktop OS; Mozilla naps on flaw; iPhone stats due; YouTube politics
- Notable headlines:David Berlind: By 2010, will Windows ‘Seven' or any desktop OS really matter? Mary Jo Foley: Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps. Ryan Stewart: The desktop OS will still matter, just not which one. Techmeme.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla caught napping on URL protocol handling flaw.Larry Dignan: Apple's third quarter: All eyes on...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Podcast: News to know midday: HP beefs up software; Search privacy; Windows 7
- On today's podcast: HP beefs up its software business with Opsware; Privacy is the hot thing among search engine giants; Windows 7: Coming in 2010.
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- News to know: Mashups; Windows to Mac; Windows 7; Search engine privacy
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Switching from Windows to Mac: The ROI case.Dion Hinchcliffe: A bumper crop of new mashup platforms.Search engines race to update privacy policies. Larry Dignan: Is privacy the new search competitive edge?Mary Jo Foley: Windows Seven: Think 2010. Next version of Windows: Call it 7.Dana Gardner: The macro...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- News to know: Facebook; Google miss; Microsoft; Bugs galore
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Google isn't perfect: Earnings fall short of expectations. Relax folks, Google isn't Yahoo.Techmeme: Facebook acquires Parakey. Reuters: Facebook acquires Net start-up Parakay. Ryan Stewart: Is Facebook going to compete with Adobe AIR?Denise Howell: I'm in ur Facebook app, slurpin' up ur feeds.New hires, datacenter investments evident in...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Podcast: News to know midday: WiMax goes national; Securing hotspots; SAP
- On today's podcast: WiMax goes national. George Ou on securing hotspots. SAP's quarter shines.
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- News to know: Securing hotspots; Mac worm; eBay; IBM
- Notable headlines:George Ou: A secure Wireless LAN hotspot for anonymous users.Ryan Naraine: Mac worm rumors swirl; Dai Zovi ships unofficial Mac OS X patch.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautions. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?eBay's Skype, PayPal strong; listings down.SOA...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Podcast: News to know midday: What's next for Yahoo; Chip wars; ERP and social media
- On today's podcast: Yahoo plans strategic plan in next 100 days. Can it be fixed? Intel's results hint at AMD trainwreck. Can you marry social media and ERP?
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- News to know: Yang's debut; SP1 preview; Malware downloads; Social media ERP
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Yahoo to lay out strategic plan in next 100 days. Yahoo's second quarter on target; outlook light. Yahoo profit down on slowed display ad growth.Still no cure for what ails Yahoo.Garett Rogers: Enterprise YouTube coming to Google Apps.Dennis Howlett: Build ERP on social media: not a joke.Intel:...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
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