BitRock and RightScale Enable Application Deployment on Amazon’s EC2 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

BitRock and RightScale partner to enable one-click deployment of open source applications in the cloud.

How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch (TechCrunch)

The hype cycle now lasts less than a day. Take yesterday’s over-hyped launch of stealth search startup Cuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods. This was entirely the company’s own fault. It pre-briefed every blogger and tech journalist on the planet, [...]

Top Applications for the Mobile Journalist (All About Symbian)

Ewan's topical picks... While going through my RSS links this morning, I came across Scott Palmer's blog, and his 'must have' S60 applications . Now there's an idea for All About Symbian, I thought.

Mid-year security report: Web sites, open source, social networking at risk (Network World)

IBM and Websense are separately issuing their semiannual security trend reports this week, and the picture isn't pretty for Web sites, open source software and social networking programs.

Cyberspace is Jim Paredes’ ‘barangay’ (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

MANILA, Philippines -- Since he first started blogging in 2003, Filipino singer and composer Jim Paredes can still recall the thrill of putting his thoughts in cyberspace and getting quick responses from people.

The Google Knol Threat to Content Businesses - a Wiki Plug-in Might Level The Playing Field (ReadWriteWeb)

Does Knol ( our review ) make Google into a “content company”? Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis makes a compelling case . You can say he is conflicted, because his Mahalo venture has a lot to lose if Knol succeeds. Or you can say that he knows of what he speaks, because he is in the eye of the storm. Jason’s view that Google is the closest we have to an operating system for the web makes sense. ...

iPhone apps pirated, shared — but not GPL’d (Engadget)

Filed under: Cellphones Seeing as Apple's FairPlay DRM has already been cracked for music and movies, it's not at all surprising that people are starting to poke holes in the FairPlay-based iPhone App Store. The first loophole is pretty simple, since it doesn't appear that FairPlay links the iPhone hardware to specific Apple IDs: just log into iTunes from any of the machines authorized to ...

Best Apple Mac OS X Software: Part One (InformationWeek)

Our Apple expert John C. Welch picks 22 lesser-known applications that can make your Mac experience more productive and more fun.

iPhone NDA: Doing more harm than good (Ars Technica)

iPhone development is still hampered by a nondisclosure agreement that Apple has yet to lift. The NDA is hampering developers, putting stress on Apple, and leading to buggy code. So why is it still in force? Ars talked with several developers about the problems they face and the NDA's effect on the extended development community. Read More...

Niñal: Lifting the fog in Mangabon (Sun Star)

JOJO and Jimmy showed me what was inside their lunch-boxes—rice and dried fish. The fish, scaly and no more than three inches long, was half buried in rice that had taken on a grayish color after being soaked in ginamos (fish sauce made from anchovy fry) back home. That had always been their baon every day since they started school three years ago.