Weekly Ten (04-07-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:


1. Dial D for Disruption
Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring.
More @ Forbes.com

2. 'Ruthlessness gene' discovered
Selfish dictators may owe their behaviour partly to their genes, according to a study that claims to have found a genetic link to ruthlessness.
More @ Nature.com

3. WSJ's Mossberg says 3G iPhone due in 60 days
Speaking at a Beet.tv executive summit, well-known Wall Street Journal writer Walt Mossberg has stirred the pot by stating that an iPhone with 3G access will be available within 60 days.
More @ AppleInsider

4. Beer-30, OLED style
More @ HackaDay


5. Cone of silence (finally) lifts on the spectrum auction
For three weeks at the end of January and early February, a small team of us holed up in double super secret "war rooms" in Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. to bid on Google's behalf in the FCC spectrum auction. Bidding took place electronically, and literally billions of dollars were at stake with every mouse click.
More @ Googleblog

6. Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions
Facebook has just turned on Chat in a “few networks” (including mine) this morning and I think it’s a great implementation. While Facebook hasn’t announced an official rollout schedule, Chat will be gradually rolling out over the coming days.
More @ InsideFacebook

7. Test-driving OpenOffice.org 3.0
With OpenOffice.org 2.4 just released, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OOo3) has already passed its feature freeze, and is scheduled for release in September. Based on recent development builds, what can you expect?
More @ Linux.com

8. Everex's new MyMiniPC: $500 and gOS-powered
More @ Engadget


9. Kernel space: ELF prediction to speed application startup
A new technique might make it faster to get started with a large application, by giving the kernel advance notice of what are most likely to be the program's commonly used memory pages.
More @ LinuxWorld

10. Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns
That didn’t take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo’s board, Yahoo answered with its own letter.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

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