Briefly: .Mac customers suffer e-mail glitches
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roundup Plus: IBM launches business research group...Verbatim to make discs with HP labeling feature...SWsoft teams with Acronis to boost virtual servers...Dell, Topspin tout InfiniBand clusters.
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Blog: Stripped-down laptop, which was supposed to launch this week, needs a little more time after the discovery of some glitches.
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roundup Plus: Circuit City picks up AT&#38;T Net phone plan...Tech firms rally against copyright bill...Apple .Mac customers suffer e-mail glitches.
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Apple rolls out four patches as Microsoft scrambles to head off a zero-day attack. Also: Routers at risk.
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roundup Plus: Hewlett-Packard packages services for blades...Corel updates Painter...Hyperion targets broader base...JBoss ships J2EE app server.
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roundup Plus: Open-source rival to Exchange released...Verizon sets up home in Circuit City...3i's Gagen resigns...Unify updates Java tool.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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Ten security flaws found in Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client.
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Blog: Yahoo IM fixed after temporary problems
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Looks like I'll get the drive back soon. First I got a call from the Emeryville store, then I got a call from a person in Apple Executive offices (she gave me her name and number, but I'm not going to publish it here). I'll report back when I have more info. PS: The number of idiotic comments has gone way up.
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Apple issues patch for iTunes to prevent attacks. Also: Identity thief gets jail time.
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roundup Plus: Unisys boosts COO to CEO...Turn your fingerprints into passwords...IBM gives grants to universities.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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roundup Plus: Tech firms rally against copyright bill...Apple .Mac customers suffer e-mail glitches...Alvarion expands wireless broadband in China.
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An e-mail sent to .Mac subscribers notes recent changes to Apple applications and devices to enhance support for .Mac Web Galleries, including recently noted changes to Apple TV and Aperture. There's more, too.
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roundup Plus: Linux release features Windows support...Gmail delivered to desktops...Chinadotcom mobile services suspended...Maker of disposable RFID tags gets millions...Mitsubishi expands solar production.
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Gabe: So I picked up my MacBook Pro a few months back and I would not call myself a convert but I do really like it. I"ve been doing all the basic iLife stuff, like making DVD"s of Gabe"s birthday party and photocasting pictures to the family. I am getting much more comfortable with the Mac but there are still some things I don"t quite understand and so I have a couple questions for you guys.