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http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/mining/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100912&subSection=News

The FCC tests were public, and everyone who had any contact with the tests, including Larry Page agreed that the devices interfered.

The only ones who called the test a success were the writers of the FCC report. Larry Page was crying foul about the tests being too hard ("rigged") right up until they issued their report because the devices interfered .

These things are going to knock out rural TV and get approved anyway or not get approved. If they don't get approved, we all lose. The bands auctioned off to Verizon and AT&T should have been the white-space playground for unlicensed devices and free networking. If the FCC had wanted to be really forward thinking, they would have opened up airwaves that were actually open.

Their own managers got screwed by this. From Information Week:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100310

In another e-mail, Microsoft Windows product manager Mike Nash said even he was fooled by the campaign: "I personally got burned by the Intel 915 chipset issue on a laptop that I personally" bought "with my own $$$." Nash said he purchased the Sony laptop "because it had the Vista logo and was pretty disappointed."

"I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine," Nash complained.

Nothing new here. Another day. Another episode demonstrating that there are no ethics or leadership at the top of this company. Just a bunch of ignorant whores.

Have the applications been ported to newer hardware, or are some banks still running ancient machines based on transistors and 1st generation microchips?

It's up to the customer. That's why they love it. You can take your accounting system written in COBOL on the 360 in the 1960s, and run it in 31 bit System/360 compatibility mode on your brand new System z z10 EC machine with 64 quad-core POWER-derived processors at a speed akin to 1,500 modern x86 machines.

And if you decided to store your business information in IBM IMS in 1968, you can migrate to the new IMS version 11 on your z10 and expand your library with up to 40 TB of data.

(Opinions mine, not IBM's, and I don't work in the mainframe division.)

And therein lies the difference between software that runs on the user's local computer, under the user's control, and software that runs in the cloud, under the service provider's control.

It's only a "service" if it works in a way that's acceptable to The Customer. If it doesn't, it's incompetence or a bait & switch, ie fraud. A little melodramatic, I know, for a redesigned iGoogle page layout, but the reasoning that we ought to be grateful for corporate commodities that consistently function substantially below advertised quality is offensive. I'm just commenting on the reasoning, not the iGoogle story that it's applied to. The fact that funds are transferred via producers of other products, called advertisers in the online business model Google and others use, doesn't change who is ultimately The Customer.

- angry over confusion
- angry over video card
- angry over southpark
- angry over upgrades
- angry over waiting in line

So, M is for Microsoft.

No, M is for Modeling.

And Google is your friend:
Microsoft details Oslo's modeling language, tools
Microsoft To Release Oslo Modeling Software Preview

Let badly implemented unregulated devices out in the wild and you stand a very good chance of making a section of the spectrum toxic.

One could point out, as another poster already has, that it's already happened. Those self-same wireless microphones that are being so vociferously defended could easily be characterized as badly implemented unregulated devices. Yes, there is a section of the regulations that allows them. It requires manually getting a license to use them, which apparently the vast majority of users never do. They are already proof that unregulated white-space devices can work, without interference with the legitimate license holder of a particular channel, so all of these objections by microphone users are rank hypocrisy.

Now that these devices are out in the wild, they are now making a section of spectrum "toxic" for any other potential whitespace users, first by being dumb analog devices, and second by having a constituency of users that perceive themselves as the rightful incumbents. Guess what. Next to none of them are licensed, so they have NO rights at all to object to being drowned right out.

Or, how about paying CASH for the phone, and buying the service separately. Don't tell me this is impossible, hackers will make it possible.

The problem is that most people aren't creative enough to solve simple problems, or want their cake and eat it too.

Buy a iPhone and don't worry about Google.

You can't buy an iPhone with cash

Also, an Exchange CAL comes with a license for Outlook/Entourage

As of Exchange 2007 MS dropped the included Outlook CAL.

I've heard this story before about the university I went to (Lakehead U). Either this is urban myth or it happens very often:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6505527
http://sewicked.blogspot.com/2008/07/urban-legend-have-you-ever-heard-story.html

Like most of your comments, you are grossly incorrect.

The Commodore 64 helped get AOL started in 1983 before the Amiga existed, but Apple and Microsoft made a deal with AOL to not support the Commodore machines anymore after that AOL rebate was made.

You are obviously an Amiga and Atari hater that doesn't know jack squat about their history and favor the Mac or Windows PCs even if they were inferior to the Amiga and Atari ST from 1985-1994. Around 1995 Windows 95 sunk both of them as PC Clones got so cheap and so fast that Atari and Commodore could not get the 68K series processors to match what Intel put out. Apple had to convert to the PowerPC to match Intel PCs, then Atari went out of business and Amiga got sold off and later they made AmigaOS 4.0 for PowerPC Amiga systems but it was too late. Even Gateway tried to sell the Amiga, but after Microsoft threatened to take away their Windows OEM license, they dropped it like a hot potato and sold it.

AmigaDOS/AmigaOS lives on as the free and open source AROS and if it had third party driver support and third party business software support like Windows, it would wipe the floor with Windows and Mac OSX because it has a smaller footprint and is ten times faster as the modern Windows and Macintosh operating systems and can run on the same hardware as PCs and Macs. But since Microsoft has the monopoly on what third parties can write drivers for and business software for, they sink alternatives to Windows like AROS, eComStation, BeOS, HaikuOS, Linux, *BSD Unix, etc.

"The Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona was an appropriate setting for Zephyr's world beating flight as many landmark aviation developments have taken place there in recent years," Simon Bennett, managing director of QinetiQ's Applied Technologies business, said in an announcement. "In addition to setting a new unofficial record, the trial is a step towards the delivery of Zephyr's capability for joint, real-time, battlefield persistent surveillance and communications to forces in the field at the earliest opportunity." [emphasis mine]

Read this then come back and re-think your response.

Really, now? Ubuntu is not a bad desktop distro. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=H33BI1QHHDVFEQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=199201179&pgno=8&queryText=&isPrev= Vista is complete, but is seriously bloated. Ubuntu is faster for everyday tasks.

Yeah, well the project is going to bring only 75 jobs to Iowa. I suspect most of the employees will be transferred in from out of state. If BillG had his way, they'd all be hired from India on H-1B visas for $15k per year.

Doesn't really work -- if they wanted to try to see what's inside it, they would copy the file (you can't copy a bank bag). For them to actually delete the file would require more than that -- it would have to be a deliberate act of malice.

And if they had access to copy the files what make you think they wouldn't go the malice route? They are already in an area they aren't supposed to be which show some malice in disregard of the rules. And your only right about the bank bag because we lack the specific technology to duplicate the bank bag with all it's contents. But there would be nothing stopping the person from cutting and pasting the file (from windows) which would be the same as taking the bank bag.

Given that the files would also be signed, that's the worst they can do -- delete the file.

Ok, lets say that is all they can do. Why is the file being backed up? Whats going to happen when it isn't there if you need it? Or that specific revision of it?

Now, I agree that it'd be better to do this some other way. That said, suppose I gave you free FTP access to a server with, say, 10 terabytes of space on it. For some reason, it's trivially easy for me to give you this FTP access, and be reasonably sure you can't do anything other than store files on it, but I'm hopeless to give you any more secure access.

And of course, you don't really trust me, anyway.

So the question arises -- would you rather take your chances that your backups could be destroyed, but not read? Or would you rather pay for backup (implying that you trust the endpoint more than me)? Or would you rather not backup at all?

Well, fist of all, I wouldn't be under any illusion that any security was there at all. That means nothing sensitive, nothing critical, and nothing that would/could potentially cause trouble would be stored there. Second, I would probably use the storage for non-important stuff or as a layer of convenience for stuff that isn't important like I already stated. This might include keeping copies of programs I use a lot so I can download on if needed, it might include copies of websites that are already public, maybe code for OSS software I'm working with (I'm not programing but already patched something to work in a specific environment) and stuff like that. It would be a convenience for non secure stuff but it would be in addition to other measures that ensure it isn't lost or corrupted and is availible is needed.

With all that being said, no, I wouldn't trust you because I know how the security of FTP works. This doesn't mean I wouldn't use your offer, but I wouldn't use it for anything important regardless of how many times I encrypted something. And yes, I would pay someone for a more secure backup that I could trust. Even if that backup person is me with a collocation somewhere.

All of this is very hypothetical, as that situation does sound contrived, even to me. But the idea of having an encrypted backup isn't a bad one -- I can see myself paying for storage on something like Amazon S3 (or, hypothetically, a cheaper competitor), but I can't really see myself trusting Amazon with everything I'd want to backup (SSH keys, porn browsing habits, etc). So if I was to do something like this, I'd probably encrypt the files

Encrypting the files isn't the issue here. Or at least it isn't the ones I'm raising. The problem is that of an illusion that encryption would do anything to make you more safe and reliable. Hell, I'm not even sure that the files would actually be safe from being read even if encrypted. A brute force attack on a AES-256 bit key spread out over a 1.5 million node bot net could get lucky a couple of times.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403007

It's well-known that AT&T was Apple's second choice. Verizon was the first.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/crm/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172900624

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9985201-7.html

If MS really gets on the band wagon, they will be in the same boat as the other providers. In fact it will be worse due to their lack of institutional competence and the fact that they will be charging $$$$$$ for the service. If one copy of Word crashes, no problem. If an entire large companies version of Word crashes then it won't be long before people start screaming bloody murder.

Low cost hosted apps make some sense for travelers or people who can't afford full office suites. In other cases, esp. when you factor in the lack of backups, it doesn't.

IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows'.

What seems to be another spin on the same talk: IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows'.

Nice to see someone else noticing that little problem. I wonder if this will convince Gnome and KDE to dump the bloat... or maybe get some of the lighter weight desktops like Windowmaker (and toolkits like GNUstep) some traction on teh Linux desktop.

(yes, I know GNUstep is copying NeXT, but NeXTstep on a 40 MHz 68030 was faster and more responsive than any of the leading contenders on processors 10 times as powerful)

Many posters wrote that they'd rather download content. But if you download content with DRM that's tied to some authentication server, you can't rely on the service staying up for more than a few years.

Major systems which have already shut down, making purchased content unplayable:

• DIVX. Rent a cheap DVD, re-authorize to play again. Discontinued in 1999. Content now unplayable.
• AOL MusicNow Downloadable music, Microsoft DRM. Service discontinued, customer base transferred to Napster. Existing downloads now unplayable. Previous purchases credited as Napster purchases where both services had the same content.
• Yahoo Music Downloadable music, Microsoft DRM. Service discontinued, customer base transferred to RealNetworks. Existing downloads now unplayable. Coupons issued to former customers.
• MTV URGE Downloadble music, monthly fixed fee. Service discontinued, customers offered "upgrade" deal by RealNetworks. Existing downloads now unplayable.

That's why downloaded DRMed content can't be trusted.

Sorry to respond to myself (again), but now that TFA is working, it turns out we've been Inquirered. PC Authority was just reprinting an Inq article, which in retrospect makes perfect sense given the absurdity of the title and the summary.

Even the Inq basically took the story from somewhere else; you can find the source (and far more sensible) article at Information Week.

Are these TSA-approved laptop bags going to protect my laptop as well as TSA-approved locks keep people out of my luggage?

Yes: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207401604

Uh, no and this part of the site is suspect for it's treatment of Vista and Debian security. UAC was designed to be annoying and offers little if any real security. Others have questioned Vista's security improvement over XP and other versions of Windows, but the comparison is kind of like winning a gold star at the Special Olympics. To M$, monopoly power and business models are more important than your data integrity, privacy, the internet or general welfare of users and the world. If M$ spent $100,000,000 on UAC and "security" it was squandered but we can be sure the majority of it was used for advertising and other business model security. It is amazing that the knowlegable people who put the site together could claim that Vista security is "teh best ever, but bad vendors ruinz it" and then compare Debian's late problem with OpenSSL. Debian's mistake is serious but it's not in the same league as M$'s continuing failures.

More details here

Childs, who works in the city Department of Technology, allegedly created a password that gave him exclusive access to the city's new FiberWAN (wide area network), authorities told the newspaper. He has refused to divulge the password, leaving other system administrators locked out.

Undoing Childs' alleged tampering could cost millions of dollars, city officials said. In the meantime, the system is operating, even though administrators have limited or no access.

Childs, who has worked for the city for about five years, had been disciplined in recent months for poor job performance, and supervisors had tried to fire him, the newspaper reported.

"They weren't able to do it -- this was kind of his insurance policy," an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the newspaper. Childs allegedly began tampering with the computer system June 20, building a tracing system to monitor what other administrators were saying or doing about his personnel case.

More details here

The Chronicle also reported on Wednesday that Childs has a 25-year-old felony criminal record in Kansas, where he was convicted of aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary stemming from charges filed in 1982. Childs was on probation or parole until 1987, according to records uncovered by the newspaper. Childs had disclosed the felony conviction when he applied for the San Francisco job five years ago.

Childs had been highly regarded in the technology department until he became a "rogue employee that got a bit maniacal," Newsom said.

"He was very good at what he did, and sometimes that goes to people's heads," the mayor said. "And we think that's what this is about."

Childs' problems with the department got serious June 20 when he started taking photographs of the agency's new head of security after she began an audit of who had password access to the system, the newspaper said. Childs' frightening behavior prompted the woman to lock herself in an office

His supervisors' concerns grew when they discovered he had given himself exclusive access to the system and had developed a way to spy on his bosses' e-mails related to his conduct. Childs was ordered to leave work July 9 for alleged insubordination.

More details here

Childs, who works in the city Department of Technology, allegedly created a password that gave him exclusive access to the city's new FiberWAN (wide area network), authorities told the newspaper. He has refused to divulge the password, leaving other system administrators locked out.

Undoing Childs' alleged tampering could cost millions of dollars, city officials said. In the meantime, the system is operating, even though administrators have limited or no access.

Childs, who has worked for the city for about five years, had been disciplined in recent months for poor job performance, and supervisors had tried to fire him, the newspaper reported.

"They weren't able to do it -- this was kind of his insurance policy," an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the newspaper. Childs allegedly began tampering with the computer system June 20, building a tracing system to monitor what other administrators were saying or doing about his personnel case.

More details here

The Chronicle also reported on Wednesday that Childs has a 25-year-old felony criminal record in Kansas, where he was convicted of aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary stemming from charges filed in 1982. Childs was on probation or parole until 1987, according to records uncovered by the newspaper. Childs had disclosed the felony conviction when he applied for the San Francisco job five years ago.

Childs had been highly regarded in the technology department until he became a "rogue employee that got a bit maniacal," Newsom said.

"He was very good at what he did, and sometimes that goes to people's heads," the mayor said. "And we think that's what this is about."

Childs' problems with the department got serious June 20 when he started taking photographs of the agency's new head of security after she began an audit of who had password access to the system, the newspaper said. Childs' frightening behavior prompted the woman to lock herself in an office

His supervisors' concerns grew when they discovered he had given himself exclusive access to the system and had developed a way to spy on his bosses' e-mails related to his conduct. Childs was ordered to leave work July 9 for alleged insubordination.

this article at information week said it best the day after the announcement.

Geez, if you want responsible disclosure, you have to trust the experts when they say "it's new and it's bad"

Some GNU code is in OS X.

OS X has over 7% of the desktop (including laptop) market. (according to the first result when I googled "os x market share")

Linux's userland is mostly GNU, and is over 1% on the desktop - and we already knew it was well over that on the server. (source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807072 - and that's an old article, too.)

If this were code for a program, I would say that someone has been hacking at the code trying to work around a problem.

It seems like no one at AT&T has reviewed the full contract and how it all works together. Or, as you say, there is could be a hidden issue that dictates those precise words. Maybe they're trying to avoid class-action lawsuits concerning unreasonable contract requirements?

As to changing the contract, I assume that is possible. While they list the iPhone on their web site, you can't actually sign up for one yet, so change is still possible.

Hi there! My name is Microsoft shill #59329. I'm here to tell you about the exciting new features in Windows 7, and to assure you all that it will be delivered on-time!

Now, we at Microsoft, are aware that whilst people love Windows Vista, some are having trouble with a few of the more advanced features, and the number of resources required to support them. So allow me to show you, dear Slashdot reader, the two major features in Windows 7 that will make it your best upgrade yet!

1. No longer will DRM checking be bound to every system event. We know our users love Vista, and Hollywood movies! We're working hard to make DRM checking a little more selective, so things like moving the mouse pointer will no longer trigger a string of DMCA takedown notices from the MPAA. Innovative!
2. Our dedicate Windows 7 software team is working tirelessly to reverse engineer speed improvements to Vista, if someone could help us figure out how this app speeds things up, drop us a line! Exciting!

We'll certainly be on-time, because we're not actually going to change anything. Didn't see that one coming did you Free software zealots? I prostrate myself at the feet of chairman Ballmer, worshipping his tactical genius. You should too (if you know what's good for you)!

Overall, we're confident you'll find Windows 7 to be the Best OS EVAR, and even if you don't: we've kidnapped Linus and Stallman and have them secure in our secret, underground base.

I didn't even know what UAC was until I started reading the replies to my question... so I looked it up and found this:

Don't shut off Visa UAC and thought it might be useful for the people telling me to just shut it off.

Still, I think one of the responses is correct... I already have XP Pro when I need Windows, so what do I gain by switching to Vista? Anything? I don't have any Windows software that won't run under XP. I guess I'm just going to wait.

Mozilla's record-breaking attempt to massively release Firefox 3.0, unfortunately this broke some of its servers as well. Gina Trapani, editor of Lifehacker.com noted, "Uh-oh, getfirefox.com taking forever to load already... this is like a scheduled, 24-hour DOS attack," she said.

Flash-embedded PDFs are here. Repent now!

"Did you catch the article about Google's datacenters the other day? Clearly they recognize that fact and design around it."

I wonder, http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202400961 how does a 'data center' in a box go down, when it's 'power room' explodes?

complicated electrical devices, especially where varying current can cause undesirable operation of the device, are the kinds of electrical devices that make a big bang when they go up in smoke, the conventional data center can put these parts far away from the server, so even with 3 walls going down no servers were harmed... but if it's all tightly integrated into a 'box' what happens to all the servers and the data?

i suppose if the thing is as big as a semi trailer, it could have a blast barrier, between servers, and power unit... otherwise, a data center in a box is a potentially less safe method of implementing a data center than the conventional approach.

So are we now to believe that a "truckers and longshoremen" skills shortage shows need for an increase of the 85,000 H-1B visas already available?

Spyware Doctor 5 suffers from software glitches; failed to identify or remove a test Trojan horse; returned a high number of false positive or extremely low-risk results PC Tools Spyware Doctor 2007

Microsoft is not alone in its skepticism of PC Tools' report.

Dennis Kudin, CTO of Ukraine-based Information Security Center Ltd., also dismissed PC Tools' findings in a Windows Live Spaces blog post. The malware counted in such studies often isn't a real threat, he said. The issue is serious threats, malware that runs at the system kernel level and requires administrative privileges.
"Most Windows 2000 users work as administrators by default, so they are vulnerable to any kind of threats. In Windows Vista this vital problem is solved by UAC technology. So Vista is definitely much more secure than Windows 2000 and I don't understand PC Tools' attempt to overthrow this axiom by far-fetched conclusions in their survey." Microsoft Refutes Windows Vista Vulnerability Report [May 13]

This person thinks that Android will significantly stunt Windows Mobil plans.

A battle Mircrosoft seems to be winning:

Microsoft said sales of Office 2008, which launched in January, are nearly three times what the company saw with the launch of Office 2004. The suite is selling faster than any version in 19 years. Sales Of Office For Mac Highest In Nearly 20 Years [May 13]

Nowhere is the gap between philosophical acceptance and actual adoption clearer than on the desktop where -- despite critical praise of recent Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and the backing of Sun for the OpenOffice productivity suite -- Linux has still failed in its mission to supplant incumbent Microsoft and its Windows-Office dominance.
Early Linux-fuelled enthusiasm wouldn't have predicted the apathy the market has shown for the far lower-cost solutions offered by the open-source community. In late 2002, a Giga report projected that "the arrival of attractively priced competing office suites combined with dissatisfaction with current Microsoft licensing plans will create upwards of a five percent market share loss" for Microsoft.
Betting against Microsoft in any industry has always been a bad idea. In a March Forrester presentation, Giga's optimism proved misplaced: "The lack of a viable, enterprise-ready alternative to Microsoft Office -- particularly an alternative to Outlook -- will keep Microsoft firmly planted in the enterprise for the foreseeable future."
Ditto the desktop, where Windows continues to reign supreme. In 2004, IDC predicted that growing Linux adoption would push the operating system from three percent market share to seven percent by 2008. Even those figures paled compared to the predictions of Siemens Business Systems, which in 2003 predicted that Linux would have captured 20 percent of the enterprise desktop market by 2008.
It is now 2008, and Windows is still the dominant operating system; if anything, Mac OS X has supplanted Linux as the alternative desktop of choice. Linux is out there, but erratically: it runs, for example, on ASUS's popular Eee mini-notebook PC and in March was chosen by IBM for low-cost PCs to be shipped to customers in Eastern Europe. Despite a few isolated purchases, however, desktop PC purchases are still all about Windows. Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong? [May 15]

You didn't mean this did you :-)

http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199500385

It has a banner add at the top, but at least it doesn't have the rest of the cruft on the page.

Here

Yahoo News
Microsoft leverages two community projects promoting open protocols for network management-- Web Services for Management and OpenPegasus-- to enable cross-platform support. Microsoft also has joined the steering committee for the OpenPegasus project and will contribute royalty-free code to the project

some articles via Google News

Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog

Information Week

Microsoft won't just rip the code from OpenPegasus, but will join IBM, HP and others on the OpenPegasus Steering Committee and contribute code back to the project under the OSI-approved Microsoft Public License, which the Free Software Foundation has said is compatible with the GNU GPL version 3. The terms of the Microsoft Public License mean that any code Microsoft contributes will be freely modifiable and usable by anyone, so long as copyrights in the code are left intact.

"It's very important to me that we use OSI-approved licenses when using open source," Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of platform strategy and one of its top open source advocates, said in an interview.

Microsoft's adoption of OpenPegasus for the Operations Manager add-in could be seen as a small data point that shows Microsoft is getting a little bit more comfortable with the open source world by working with IBM and others on an open source project. It's not like Microsoft is open sourcing all of System Center, but it is a step nonetheless.

Excellent comment!

From Hacking My PowerShot: "I picked up a [Canon Powershot] A560 late last year -- it's a wonderfully handy point-and-shoot camera that even shoots full NTSC video..."

From the link about open source firmware you recommended: Quick answers to 7 key questions about CHDK: "5. What extra capabilities does CHDK provide? Enhanced ways of recording images ... for video images you can have increased recording time and length (1 hour or 2 GB), and a greatly increased range of compression options."

The problem will be that there needs to be enough light. There could be motion detection lights in several places. If a thief is moving around at night, and suddenly there is a bright light, that changes the psychology of the situation. Very likely the thief will leave. If he or she doesn't you will have a video recording.

It seems to me that lights that turn on when motion is detected are the first best defense. That and signs that say, "Smile, your visit is being recorded."

Remember that the obvious camera can be a dummy. The real cameras can be hidden.

...and despite repeated requests, they won't tell you which one actually is patented. They will only say that you have infringed upon it.

Because IBM apparently doesn't patent anything...

Ok, I'm late on that one. But really worth is the GEB 6-minutes video demonstration of the new features.

Here's more info, well, a copy of my post of the site from my sig:
Mentioned earlier this week, here's the official announcement and a description of a new feature, 3D building swooping. The release provoked a lot of reactions and writings in the geoblogs. Here's the GEB entries on his first impressions [with screenshots], a video demonstration, well worth the 6 minutes (really), a short explanation of the new navigation widgets and some final thoughts on GE 4.3. Ogle Earth also shares his comments and discuss the differences between atlases and mirror worlds. Interesting to note that not everyone is pleased with some of the changes, with GE being dubbed the AOL of the Geoweb. APB also links to a IW article on the practical uses of Google StreetView.