Plus Vivek Kundra on pushing the US federal government cloudward, and a browser plug-in to see the invisible web of cookies and trackers
Photograph: Tony Avelar/AFP
A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
"Trusted sources tell TUAW that OS X 10.7 Lion has gone live for internal Apple testing as recently as last week. An internal testing release generally indicates that Lion is near to a real world debut."
That makes quite rapid progress from the first developer preview, only issued a few months ago.
A 52-word three-sentence "tip" where if everything's going well, you answer "No".
"The one thing that pretty much anyone-whether they're a politician, a member of the Washington bureaucracy, or a humble taxpayer-can agree on is that when a dollar is spent, it should be done effectively and productively. Kundra's job is to whip government agencies into shape around IT spending, and make them think more like private companies in planning that spending.
"A keystone of his plan is to push federal agencies to embrace, where possible and appropriate, the cost-savings and efficiency that come from cloud computing."
Neat browser plugin for IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari that shows you what web beacons etc there are on a page.
"File this one under the highly improbable drawer because there's little chance Samsung will let Apple get their hands on its active-matrix organic LED technology, better known as AMOLED, which is an important differentiating hardware feature of their Galaxy S smartphone series...especially now that Apple has sued them."
The last bit is unimportant; business is business. Whether it's important for the smartphone series is a different question. This rumour hangs on a thread (Cook met Samsung!). Pinch of salt.
Or: how linkrot is going to get you or your links one day. The proportion of dead links is likely higher than this check found because of parked domains, which superficlally look OK to a crawler.
Nifty tool.
"So performance in a market can only be measured if you know to what end is that measure applied. Are you trying to determine current performance or are you assuming that the future will be different and trying to figure out what that future will look like?
"There is no good answer. It depends. But at least we can combine more than one share value into a summary. Mark Hernandez suggested that I put forward a 'composite index' to measure vendor performance. I am willing to give it a try."
"There is no good answer. It depends. But at least we can combine more than one share value into a summary. Mark Hernandez suggested that I put forward a 'composite index' to measure vendor performance. I am willing to give it a try."
The result when he does is Interesting.
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