The Guardian has published an insightful piece on Apple’s odd relationship with its development community, which I’d recommend for two reasons: it demonstrates both how to and how to not build community.
As a hard-core Apple fan, I hope it doesn’t make the same mistake this time and make third-party development onerous. I love Apple’s sense [...]

The console factor One interesting difference between the launch of GTA IV–which was released for
Xbox 360 and
PlayStation 3–and its predecessor, the hugely popular GTA: San Andreas, is the install base of the consoles the games are available on.

“The combined install base of the PS3 and Xbox 360 now sits at 14 million,” Frazier said, “and [...]

According to The Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo is also testing the use of Google ads on a small percentage of its search pages. This could lead Yahoo to outsource its core ad search business to Google. As you might recall, Google and AOL have a connection. Google invested $1 billion in AOL in 2005 for [...]

The MIT Kerberos Consortium, a security authentication and authorization group, announced Monday that Microsoft has joined its shindig.

The consortium, which launched in September with Google, Apple, Sun Microsystems and a collection of universities, noted Microsoft is coming aboard as a founding sponsor.

Kerberos aims to offer consumers the same single sign-on authentication and authorization system that [...]

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Tech investor Larry Augustin does a good job of parsing the differences between building an open-source business in Europe and building one in the United States, suggesting that Europe is the better place to be to build an open-source business.
Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol and an example of an open source-savvy European living in the [...]

The Twitter site doesn’t allow you to create groups on it, a significant missing feature. But just because the site is lacking group support, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have any options available to you to create your own group with free Web tools. Believe it or not, if you really want to create [...]

Update: Are three cores better than two? Consumers now get the chance to decide. AMD’s X3 Phenom processors are available in low-cost consumer systems from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Gateway, and eMachines.
Also, on the quad-core front, AMD said Wednesday that Dell is offering five server platforms based on the AMD “Barcelona” Opteron processor.
Gateway model GT5670 with Phenom [...]

Sprint Nextel announced Thursday a new downloadable application that will let its subscribers bank and pay bills from their cell phones.
The new application called MyMoneyManager will provide online banking access to accounts with BB&T, Citibank, IBC Bank and PNC Bank. Subscribers with accounts at these banks will be able to check balances, pay bills, and [...]

How popular can a piece of software get before being in “beta” is no longer a legitimate excuse for known software flaws? Or, to put it another way, is it responsible to allow hundreds of thousands of people to install your product, when you know ahead of time that doing so opens them up to [...]

(Credit:
Andy Purdy)
On Wednesday, HBGary announced that Andy Purdy has joined their advisory board.

Purdy, while a member of the White House, co-drafted the 2003 edition of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, then joined the Department of Homeland Security. There, he served on the tiger team that helped to form the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) [...]