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Google says it has a vastly improved architecture for its new Chrome Web browser, improving speed, reliability, and security. They decided to hire comic artist Scott McCloud - author of books on explaining comics - to explain their new technology.Read more... Listen  

While our fearless leader Adam Engst despises his Eye-Fi Share, I've grown to like, if not quite love, my Eye-Fi Explore, an SD storage and Wi-Fi card that tags photos with locations and uploads at some hotspots.Read more... Listen  

Nancy Heinen, once Apple's general counsel, will pay $2.2 million to settle charges raised over Apple's handling of backdated stock options. Read more... Listen  

No one had the guts to tell their bosses - or Jobs, the boss of all bosses - that MobileMe couldn't execute argues former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gasseé.Read more... 

Sky Dayton leaves EarthLink, the company he founded 14 years ago as one of the first providers of Internet service to the masses.Read more... Listen  

Install Security Update 2008-005 now! Apple has finally released a security fix for a serious DNS flaw that's being exploited in the wild. The update also includes fixes for other serious vulnerabilities.Read more... Listen  

The SANS Institute finds that Apple's patch for a flaw in the DNS protocol doesn't fix client resolver software, leaving Macs vulnerable to a far-less-likely outcome.Read more... Listen  

You can update your Mac's flawed DNS software in advance of Apple releasing a critical, necessary, and overdue fix. But do so at your own risk. (This article is now obsolete.)Read more... 

Apple says that its MobileMe mail outage for 1 percent of users has been resolved, and archived messages restored.Read more... Listen  

Google at last enables always-on security for its Gmail service, while also revealing the locations from which your account has been accessed recently. Read more... Listen  

Apple's veil of secrecy remains largely intact in a non-apology that provides information for MobileMe users whose stored email is unavailable. Read more... Listen  

Apple tweaks something and my home Address Book starts to sync.Read more... 

Apple has made its biggest security stumble ever by not releasing a necessary patch for a serious DNS exploit that allows any domain name to be redirected to any IP address. Read more... Listen  

Apple sold 30 to 40 percent more computers in the second quarter of 2008 than in the previous year, becoming third largest seller of computers in the United States.Read more... Listen  

The MobileMe transition didn't go smoothly, and Apple admits as such in an email to its subscribers. Money talks, so Apple's adding 30 days to all subscriptions and trials as part of the apology. Plus, they won't call their desktop sync software "push" until it really pushes changes.Read more... Listen  

Apple biffs its transition from .Mac to MobileMe, with the Web interface mostly dead for two days. They planned this wrong from the start, and botched a difficult move. But it eventually kicked into gear.Read more... Listen  

The Justice Department reportedly ends its criminal investigation into Apple's stock backdating affair. A civil action by the SEC remains against a former executive.Read more... Listen  

Microsoft decides to continue allowing music purchased from its MSN Music store to be transferred among legitimate machines until 2011.Read more... Listen  

Boingo's new application simplifies logging into their meta-networks of 60,000 U.S. hotpots and 100,000 international hotspots, all for flat monthly rates.Read more... Listen  

Sell or give away your 2G iPhone, and the new owner can still get a 2G pricing plan. They won't have to pay the higher rate for 3G service without being able to use the higher speed.Read more... 

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