“I can take a machine out of the box, plug it in, and it’s instantly exploitable,” Finisterre, who has written proof-of-concept exploit code, told The Register. “There’s no interaction on the user’s part at all.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/wyse_remote_exploit_bugs/

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For small and midsize businesses without an instantly recognizable brand name, customer trust has to be earned. And it’s not enough to run your business right, your Web site has to instantly convince potential customers they can trust you. http://www.bmighty.com/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218401381&cid=RSSfeed_bMighty_All

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Open source business intelligence software maker Japsersoft has begun pitching “unlimited use” subscriptions to new customers worldwide. Under the deal, new subscribers get one-year pass to the entire JasperSoft Professional Edition BI suite with no limits on the number of applications, users, or systems, the company said. But the license must be kept to a [...]

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That’s right, I think the SD card is going to replace the DVD drive on most of Apple’s laptops going forward. If you really need a DVD, you’ll be able to buy an external USB Superdrive – but that option will mostly be a safety net. http://blogs.computerworld.com/is_apple_trading_sd_cards_for_dvds_in_macbooks?source=rss_blogs

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A fourth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to illegally accessing confidential electronic passport records, the U.S. Department of Justice said. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135413/Fourth_State_Department_worker_pleads_guilty_to_passport_snooping?source=rss_gov

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Start-up WhipTail Technologies has announced a whopping 6TB solid state drive (SSD). This fits into a 2U rack enclosure, WhipTail says, making it the highest-capacity SSD appliance available to mid- to large-sized enterprises, with this footprint. You can use the 2U case for 1.5TB, 3TB or 6TB of flash, multi-level cell (MLC) flash that is. [...]

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At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference on Monday, server-virtualisation challenger Citrix Systems will up the ante – or more precisely, lower the price-barrier to entry – for virtualisation tools to manage virtual Windows machines. It will launch a freebie version of its Citrix Essentials virtualisation tool set that works in conjunction with Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor for [...]

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Rosetta Stone, maker of language-learning software, is joining a growing crowd of companies suing Google for letting third-parties buy permission to use other people’s trademarks on AdWords. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/rosetta_stone_sues_google/

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On Road Trip 2009, CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve near Arco, Idaho. Formed from thousands of years of activity along the “Great Rift” of the Snake River Plain, lava “welled up,” according to a National Park Service brochure, “to produce this vast ocean of rock. The [...]

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As translated by Pink Tentacle and found on Robot Watch: “This eye-catching digital signage system consists of a 0.3-millimeter-thick high-luminance rear-projection film (Vikuiti Rear Projection Film developed by 3M) applied to a 3-millimeter-thick glass substrate cut into the shape of a woman. A rear projector beams video onto the film, whose microbead-arrayed surface produces a [...]

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