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• Forget Users; It's External Customers That Count
July 26, 2007 -- Design business systems to serve the market, not your employees, columnist Seybold says.

• MTV Founder Bob Pittman Backs Online Video Hub WeShow
July 13, 2007 -- WeShow employs teams of people to sift through the massive selection of content currently available and pick and organize what they deem the best of online video.

• iPhone Gets High Marks For Accessing On-Demand Software
July 12, 2007 -- Customers are finding business uses for their iPhone with NetSuite software.

• Social Networking, Online Video, Top Digital Trends
July 05, 2007 -- In the U.S. market and others where homes are saturated with televisions and DVD players, video content is a predominant part of consumers' daily lives, analysts said.

• Microsoft Apologizes For Silence On Windows Extras
July 04, 2007 -- Director Barry Goffe said work was continuing on the remaining offerings, which would be available by the end of the summer.

• IBM Beefs Up Free Enterprise Search Tool
July 03, 2007 -- A number of third-party enhancements are now available for the free, downloadable search tool IBM offers in partnership with Yahoo.

• Developers Turning Away From Windows, Survey Reveals
July 03, 2007 -- Evans Data found that 64.8% were targeting Windows, down from the 70% to 74% that the Microsoft platform recorded in the 2006 surveys.

• Cybercriminals Playing Mind Games With Users
June 28, 2007 -- A study shows that spammers and phishers are playing on our biggest fears and our biggest desires.

• Google Offers Cash For Gadgets
June 28, 2007 -- The catch is that the cash is available only to those with gadgets already garnering 250,000 page views per week or more.

• Don't Get Greedy: Only Two iPhones To A Customer
June 28, 2007 -- Apple says customers buying the iPhone through one of its 164 retail stores in the U.S. will be limited to two on a first come, first served basis.

• Pranksters-For-Hire To Help iPhone Buyers Sneak Ahead In Line
June 27, 2007 -- An outfit called "Over Here, Jerks!" will release a wild animal or do some other stunt that causes lines of iPhone buyers to disperse.

• Cyberbullying Common, More So At Facebook And MySpace
June 27, 2007 -- The most common form of online harassment was the forwarding of messages presumed to be private, experienced by 15% of teens surveyed.

• Schools Lack Cybersecurity Training As Students Grow Cybersavvy
June 27, 2007 -- The School Safety Index indicates that while 95% of districts surveyed are blocking Web sites, only 38% have a closed network that lets them control the content students can access.

• Meet The People Waiting In Line For An iPhone
June 26, 2007 -- A small group of people began forming a line in New York City on Monday to ensure they'll be among the first to get their hands on an Apple iPhone.

• Boingo Offers Worldwide Wi-Fi For $39 A Month
June 25, 2007 -- "The days of per-minute charges and incremental roaming fees for Wi-Fi Internet access are over," says Boingo president and CEO Dave Hagan.

• Trojans Lurking In Fake Video Postings On YouTube
June 20, 2007 -- In the past week, two fake video postings have been set up on YouTube to infect users with a Trojan that includes pop-up porn ads, Secure Computing warns.

• Microsoft Bows To Google's Complaint, Will Change Desktop Search In Windows Vista
June 20, 2007 -- Microsoft says it will change the way Vista's search product behaves when it releases the first service pack for the operating system, a beta of which is due out before the end of 2007.

• Who Will Cure Your Data Latency?
June 20, 2007 -- Data latency solutions are a popular offering at the 2007 SIFMA show.

• Enterprise 2.0 Users Want Easy Unified Communications
June 19, 2007 -- While integrating voice, fax, e-mail, pictures, and video is a white-hot subject, implementing their related applications has been elusive.

• Toshiba Reports Sony Battery-Related Notebook Fire
June 19, 2007 -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has listed 16 reports of Sony lithium-ion notebook batteries overheating.

• Linux Community Looks Past Microsoft
June 16, 2007 -- At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, developers discussed the evolution of the operating system--and tried to shrug off the patent threat.

• Applications May Be The iPhone's Shortcoming
June 16, 2007 -- Questions of performance and security are raised over Apple's Web-based approach.

• Apple Patches Three Bugs In Safari For Windows Beta
June 14, 2007 -- Just days after researchers started pulling up a plethora of vulnerabilities in Apple's Safari for Windows beta release, the company issued an updated version to patch three flaws.

• Cyberattack Fools You Once, Evades Detection
June 14, 2007 -- The attacks represent a "quantum leap" for hackers in terms of their technological sophistication and pose a serious challenge to the IT community, one security firm reports.

• Apple's iPhone Will Require iTunes Account, Too
June 13, 2007 -- Apple and AT&T stores have furiously been taking orders for the phone, building on Apple's success with its iPod music players.