Here’s the latest action:
The Internet is broken — This is starting to sound like a broken record. Didn’t we just write about the DNS flaw that could cripple the Internet? Now two security researchers demonstrate a new technique to intercept Internet traffic on a scale similar to the abilities of agencies such as the National Security Agency.
Android unveiled? — The Android Guys say a trusted source has given them the detailed specs of the first Google Android phone. We reported already the phone, built by HTC and running the Android operating system, will be released soon, likely in October or November. The latest blueprints of the phone, now dubbed the G1 (Google’s first phone), show it has a touchscreen, a slight tilt to the trackball mouse location, and a five-row QWERTY keyboard, reminiscent of recent Sidekick devices. There’s more here, including notes about its kicktail and arc slider screen. Just make sure you take this with a five-pound bag of salt, because there’s feverish speculation and false information flying around right now.
Technorati buys Blogcritics.org — Technorati shifted into content as it announced it is buying Blogcritics.org, a community of 2,000 bloggers and news sites.
Eye-Fi scores deal with Nikon — The maker of wireless memory cards for digital cameras, announced tonight that it has a deal with Nikon to integrate Eye-Fi’s Wi-Fi-enabled memory cards into Nikon’s newest digital SLR camera, the Nikon D90.
Food service workers protest Nvidia’s chip flaws — At the Nvision 08 conference in San Jose, attendees were asking the people handing out anti-Nvidia flyers who they worked for. Was it Intel or Advanced Micro Devices, trying to stir up trouble for a rival that had an unlucky product bug in notebook computer graphics chips? Nope. It was Unite Here, a labor group in a dispute with Aramark, Nvidia’s food service vendor. But judging from the thousands of folks who lined up to play games all night long, stare at the booth babes in the exhibit hall, and get green T-shirts signed by “Battlestar Galactica” actress Tricia Helfer, Nvidia seemed to be weathering it all just fine.
HP completes $13.9 billion acquistion of EDS — Hewlett-Packard will become a juggernaut in tech services as it finalizes the EDS deal and goes after Big Blue.
YouTube now sending updates to Twitter — This looks to be the first Google product to embrace the Twitter lifestyle.
Spore comes to iPods ahead of regular release — Electronic Arts releases cell version of upcoming Spore game for the iPods ahead of its PC release.
Google’s subsea ambitions expand — Why just take over the world when you can takeover everything under the sea as well? Google is working with a consortium of carriers to build an intra-Asian submarine cable system, dubbed the Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC), which would hook up Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore to the previous subsea cable Google already invested in, the Unity trans-Pacific submarine cable, which serves Japan.
Tapulous co-founder booted from company — Mike Lee, co-founder of Tapulous, has been booted from the hot maker of iPhone applications, according to TechCrunch.
Life after the HP spying scandal — George “Jay” Keyworth figured prominently in the spying scandal that brought down HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn. Now he has been appointed chairman of Green Plug, the company that is trying to establish a new standard for low-power electronics plugs and chargers.