Esquire 'beta tests' an animated magazine cover
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, ever-urbane magazine Esquire will include "disposable" electronic paper display (EPD) panels in its October 2008 issue.
The same magazine that has featured John Wayne with angel wings, and Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian, proclaims "The 21st Century Begins Now," with its E Ink cover insert. The display is provided by E Ink Corp., the company responsible for providing displays for every other commercially available "e-paper" device.
Now it's BizTalk Server 2009, with a shorter market lifespan
Set for release early next year, the next version of BizTalk Server will now be named accordingly by Microsoft, which now promises to release its business logic software on a more predictable schedule.
The next major release of BizTalk Server -- newly renamed BizTalk Server 2009 -- is still slated for delivery in the first half of 2009, and Microsoft claims that additional releases of the application server will begin to follow every two years, starting with a product dubbed BizTalk Server 7.
Analyst: Even against the iPhone, RIM still gains market share
As Apple ramped down shipments of its first-generation iPhone, it actually lost market share to BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM), according to the latest Gartner report.
RIM doubled its market share to 17.4 percent, selling 5.6 million devices in the April to June quarter, states the Gartner report. This was up from 2.5 million a year ago, and the marked increase likely has a lot to do with RIM's new push beyond business customers and into the consumer market.
New opposition mounts to Google ads on Yahoo
The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter to the Justice Department on Sunday, citing antitrust concerns over the proposed partnership between search leaders Yahoo and Google.
The ANA represents about 400 companies that spend about $100 billion annually on advertising. It represents and protects the interests of its members, while also advocating good advertising practices.
Tomorrow's critical Windows updates may focus on multimedia exploit
The software most affected by a quartet of updates to be released by Microsoft tomorrow morning, is our only clue to the possibility of a remote code vulnerability in multimedia files that may never have been reported elsewhere.
By number, four seems like a pretty small quantity for monthly Windows security updates, and that's the number Windows administrators and users will start seeing in their regular updates tomorrow, the second Tuesday of the month.
Personal top-level domains try to bridge communication gaps
The new .mp and .tel top-level domains, intended to serve as vehicle for personal identification, are being premiered this week. Though similar in purpose, the two are very different in function.
Telnic has marketed its .tel domain almost like a ".tel-ephone book," where the user keeps the personal domain as an updatable contact sheet. It provides a simple back end interface with contact information fields (physical address, mobile number, skypeid, email, weblink, fax, IM, etc.) which can be filled in and published.
AT&T wireless customers get Yahoo OneSearch
Yahoo and AT&T began a planned partnership on Monday that brings the search engine's mobile-centric search platform to the carrier's customers.
AT&T has worked with Yahoo for quite some time, extending back to 2001 when the company signed a shared-revenue agreement for the telco's broadband services in select areas. And since February 2006, AT&T's wireless arm -- then Cingular -- has had a
Real gets into the DVD ripping business
Seemingly without the direct blessing of the movie industry, RealNetworks has introduced a new application that allows consumers to "rip" DVDs.
Set to debut before the end of the month, RealDVD will retail for $40 and will allow the user to copy a complete DVD image to a hard drive, though very likely in a format that only RealDVD can play. This would include the disc artwork and any extras that may be on the disc.
Plastic Logic displays newest e-book reader
More than two years after debuting the concept, Plastic Logic will premiere its first demo model e-book reader at DEMOfall in San Diego.
Like most other E-books, Plastic Logic's Reader is built around E-Ink's VizPlex imaging film. This Electronic Paper Display (EPD) technology can be found in the Amazon Kindle, Phillips spinoff iRex's Iliad, the Sony Reader, and the soon-to-be-available Readius from Polymer Vision.
Business software vendors impressed with Chrome's faster JavaScript
SaaS providers NetSuite and NETTime Solutions are already claiming that their applications operate more quickly with Google's Chrome than with any other browser. Will larger applications vendors start optimizing for Chrome soon, too?
Within the first week of its existence, Google's new Chrome browser has drawn official support from NetSuite and several other business software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors, with some declaring that their applications run better with Chrome than with Internet Explorer or Firefox.
How dangerous are the first Google Chrome vulnerabilities?
A pair of security holes whose proofs-of-concept were validated by BetaNews show that Google Chrome may not have been as thoroughly inspected as Google would have us believe. But isn't finding bugs and holes what beta testing is all about?
A beta test is not a product debut, at least not by definition. So the discovery of the first few serious security vulnerabilities in Google's Chrome shouldn't, in and of themselves, raise alarm bells. However, one may rationally wonder why a project that was in the works for at least two years, if not four, wasn't able to find these same security holes long before the independent researchers did.
Mozilla's Aza Raskin: The journey back to Ubiquity
In an in-depth interview with BetaNews, the user experience chief of Mozilla Labs discusses a unique journey of discovery, backtracking through the groundbreaking work of his own father to rediscover the power of the command line.
He is the son of the man said to be the father of the Macintosh. As Aza Raskin told BetaNews, to this day, he still comes across papers or lecture notes or sketches that introduce him a little more to Jef Raskin, a man who passed away way too soon. And he continues his father's legacy, working now with Mozilla Labs to generate more sensible ways for people to use computers. A large part of his job consists of evangelizing a community of developers and users, generating interest in a new project called Ubiquity -- an experiment in endowing Firefox with a versatile, interpreter-driven command line.
Red Hat buys virtualization specialist Qumranet
The Linux vendor will now add KVM to its existing hypervisor-based approach to virtualization, an advantage the company envisions as providing as complete a portfolio as VMware, Microsoft, and Xen.
In a move that gives Red Hat new ways of managing Windows and Linux desktops, the Linux vendor on Thursday acquired virtualization player Qumranet.
Analysts: Online news viewers rising as newspaper readership falls
Newspaper readership is down -- especially among younger adults -- and so is newspaper circulation. But online TV viewing is on the rise overall, with news the most popular content category.
Consumers seem to be getting more of their news online these days and less of it from newspapers and traditional broadcast TV, suggest the results of some industry surveys.
Where does Sarah Palin stand on technology issues?
While Gov. Palin is fairly new to the political scene nationwide, the Alaska native's stance on key topics may give clues into the policies she would support if she were elected Vice President.
[M.E.'s NOTE: BetaNews contacted the press office of Gov. Sarah Palin earlier this week, and received assurances that we would be receiving responses to our inquiries about the governor's position on critical technology issues, five of which we listed and explained in detail. This has been the week of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, so any number of reasons may have delayed the press office's final response to us. However, they were aware of our already-once-postponed deadline, so in the interest of absolute fairness -- especially since we already profiled Sen. Joe Biden last week -- we will proceed with as thorough an assessment as we possibly can of Gov. Palin, given the information we do have.]
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