The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has written to Apple, AT&T and Google questioning the rejection of Google Voice and related applications from the iPhone App Store. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136161/FCC_questions_Apple_over_Google_Voice?source=rss_networking Google Voice has cooties.  Duh!

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If consumers are unsure about the origins of a website, the advice is to use the “Whois” tool, on  Nominet’s website   . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8178959.stm

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They also show a complex network of rivers and canals, revealing how the people mastered the marshy environment in what is now the lagoon of Venice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8177529.stm

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A snapshot of the OpenSolaris release repository has been made available for download as an ISO image, where it can be mounted directly or transfered to a USB stick. This will certainly come in handy if you plan to travel somewhere with limited network access but would like access to the repository. In this entry [...]

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The new iPhone 3.0.1 software, which Apple released today to iTunes around 2 p.m. Eastern, addresses a vulnerability disclosed Thursday by researchers Charlie Miller, an analyst with Independent Security Evaluators, and Collin Mulliner from the Technical University of Berlin, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136140/Update_Apple_rushes_critical_iPhone_SMS_patch?source=rss_mobile

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Yahoo’s high-profile and widely used search APIs (application programming interfaces) and search programs for external developers are up in the air after the company’s decision to outsource its search engine services to Microsoft. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136150/Future_uncertain_for_Yahoo_developer_programs?source=rss_security

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When eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005, eBay neglected to obtain rights to some crucial underlying software for the VoIP provider and now that software — still owned by the founders of Skype — is threatening eBay’s plans to spin off Skype in an IPO. http://www.bmighty.com/services/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218900300&cid=RSSfeed_bMighty_All But we own the land.  What’s this [...]

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The new Google Checkout store gadget can be embedded in any Web site without the need to engage in “complicated coding,” Google said in an official blog. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136139/Google_to_offer_simple_e_store_creation_with_Checkout_gadget?source=rss_networking

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The only limit is that the value of the free migration services cannot exceed 50% of the negotiated price of the hardware, Handy says. Those negotiated prices can be quite low when a customer agrees to move a workload from a Sun box to an IBM machine. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136152/IBM_HP_use_big_discounts_to_woo_Sun_customers?source=rss_storage

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Ultimately, the base’s solar power plant could supply 1,250 gigawatt hours per year at Fort Irwin, which among other things has facilities for training and for communicating with NASA missions. The average U.S. home consumes about 11,000 kilowatt-hours per year so the full Army installation could power well over 100,000 homes. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10300756-54.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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