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May 13, 2008

Computing

	Apple Says iPhone Sold Out Online
	Next-Gen Business Software More Fun
	Trojan Horse Gear Stalks Pentagon
	Do Some Gadgets Stymie Innovation?

Digital Life

	Gates Foundation Has New CEO
	MIT Glimpses Future with Android
	Can Social Networks Make Money?
	GodTube Lets You Rap About the Lord

Discovery

	Earliest Americans Ate Seaweed
	Scientists Map Platypus Genome
	DNA Confirms IDs of Czar's Children
	Colossal Squid: Biggest Eyes on Earth

Space

	Columbia Disk-Drive Data Recovered
	Spacecraft Will Fly to Sun's Corona
	NASA Downplays Bumpy Landing
	Hawking Thinks Alien Life Likely

Innovation

	Microsoft Brings Universe to Desktop
	JavaFX Set To Jazz Up Mobile Devices
	Bionic Beak Made for Wounded Eagle
	Company Floats Logo-Shaped 'Clouds'

Health

	Medical Helicopter Crashes in Wis.
	Virus Death Toll in China Hits 34
	Hackers Attack Epilepsy Web Site
	China Urges Precautions for Virus

Science News

	U.S. Airlifts Aid to Myanmar
	Groups Form for Multicore Chip Apps
	Babbling Is for the Birds, Too
	Bill Prohibits Genetic Bias

Environment

	Death Toll in China Quake Over 12,000
	Foreign Donors Giving to Myanmar
	Myanmar Area Devastated by Cyclone
	Warmer Oceans Mean Less Oxygen

Network Security Spotlight

Trojan Horse Threat Stalks Pentagon After Bogus Hardware Purchase
The sinister specter of an electronic Trojan horse lurking in the circuitry of a computer or network router, allowing attackers clandestine access, was raised recently by the FBI and U.S. Defense Department.

Yahoo Teams with McAfee for Safer, More Secure Searching
Web searching can expose users to a whole range of malicious sites, so Yahoo is now teaming up with security vendor McAfee to make the Yahoo search experience more secure for users.

Missouri Governor Accused of Ordering E-Mail Purge
Gov. Matt Blunt or his top deputies ordered Missouri's backup e-mail tapes to be destroyed to avoid complying with an open-records request from The Associated Press, a lawsuit alleges.

Enterprise Hardware Spotlight

Between Laptop and Palm, a New Category Emerges
The portable computing world is divided into gadgets that fit comfortably in your pocket and devices that snuggle on your lap. Is there room for a third category somewhere between handheld and laptop?

Dell Launches New Optimized Virtualization Servers
Dell has launched two dedicated virtualization servers, the PowerEdge R805 and R905 with a choice of VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition integrated hypervisors.

Alliances To Tap Benefits of Multicore Computer Chips
In the computer world's version of The Amazing Race, three rival teams of researchers are working on new types of software needed to better use computer chips that can process many tasks at once.

Mobile Enterprise Spotlight

iPhone Spreads to Carriers in Asia and Australia
Apple's iPhone continues its march around the world, with new announcements of deals with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. carriers in the Asia region and Australia.

MIT Glimpses Future of Google's Cell Phone Operating System
An MIT professor had students design software for cell phones with Google's upcoming Android mobile operating system, and results revealed just how much Android will shake up the mobile phone industry.

Sprint Nextel Faces Widening Deficit, Customer Exodus
Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel said Monday it had a larger first-quarter deficit as revenue fell, it lost more than a million subscribers, and it absorbed charges for severance and other costs.