Engadget says Google’s Nexus One is no iPhone killer

Engadget says Google’s Nexus One is no iPhone killer
An Engadget.com review of Google’s upcoming Nexus One smartphone found that it’s ‘not really very different’ from Motorola’s Droid technology.

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Table of Contents

• Engadget says Google’s Nexus One is no iPhone killer
• IT Blogwatch: Apple tablet rumors fly (iTablet/iSlate: let’s call the whole thing off)
• Working with multiple browsers
• Amir Lev: Phishing: not just for attacking banks
• Five jobs other browsers do better
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux 2019
• As 2010 dawns, FCC moves toward Net neutrality rules
• Nokia files ITC patent complaint against Apple
• IT Blogwatch: Think your cellphone call is private? Think again! GSM A5/1 encryption cracked.
• Seth H. Weintraub: Isaac Newton’s birthday celebrated with a falling Apple doodle

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• The Business Case for Virtualization

• The Need to Extend Wireless WAN

IT Blogwatch: Apple tablet rumors fly (iTablet/iSlate: let’s call the whole thing off)
Supposedly, Steve Jobs is getting ready to announce this Apple tablet device later this month. The iTablet or iSlate is supposedly an enlarged iPhone, with a 7″ or 10″ display, and Apple has ordered 10 million of them (yeah, right). In the first IT Blogwatch of 2009, bloggers argue on and on about it.  

Working with multiple browsers
Thanks to a lively market of third-party Web browsers, it’s not at all uncommon for Mac users to move back and forth between different browsers. For example, I regularly switch between Apple’s Safari and Mozilla Firefox over the course of the day, using each for different tasks–and occasionally open any of ten or so other browsers when I want to use one of the features it excels at.

Amir Lev: Phishing: not just for attacking banks
I’m interrupting my scheduled series on reputation to bring you a public service message. This week on Security Levity, a reminder to beware of all kinds of phishing attack: not just bad guys pretending to be your bank…  

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Five jobs other browsers do better
In case you haven’t heard, the browser war is over. It’s not that there aren’t still competitors–in fact, there’s a bountiful landscape of Web browsers for OS X. Rather, the war is over because almost all modern browsers are stable, compliant, and free.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux 2019
Linux? What’s Linux? By 2019, Linux will be everywhere, and totally invisible.  

As 2010 dawns, FCC moves toward Net neutrality rules
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in taking the first step toward creating Net neutrality rules in 2009, has reignited a contentious debate about government regulation of the Internet.

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Computerworld Briefing: Staffing for Intelligence
As organizations are becoming more customer-focused, they are increasingly making decisions based on facts, evidence and analytics. Successful business analytics begins with solid analytic resources, structure and technology – and more importantly, a cross-functional analytics team with qualified data professionals. With the right staffing and structure in place, business analytics can be your key to success.

Nokia files ITC patent complaint against Apple
Nokia fired the latest salvo in its ongoing patent dispute with Apple, saying Tuesday that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission charging that Apple infringes its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players and computers.”

IT Blogwatch: Think your cellphone call is private? Think again! GSM A5/1 encryption cracked.
Your cellphone calls aren’t as secure and private as you might believe. The 2G GSM encryption standard A5/1 has been cracked, potentially exposing 80% of the world’s calls to eavesdropping. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers listen in on this disturbing news. Not to mention The many faces of a Space Invader…  

Seth H. Weintraub: Isaac Newton’s birthday celebrated with a falling Apple doodle
No, Google’s Doodle isn’t celebrating Chrome’s passing of Apple’s Safari browser or knocking off any of Apple’s products. The falling Apple is to commemorate the Birthday of Isaac Newton, who was born on January 4th, 1643.  

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