This was originally posted at ZDNet’s Between the Lines.

Here’s a look at the dashboard:

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Google on Tuesday announced a dashboard to detail system status for the Google App Engine.

On the Google App Engine blog, the company said that it has launched the App Engine system status site and a quota dashboard to detail items [...]

The purported talks, if successful, could spare Microsoft the trouble and time of a hostile bid for the search company, if indeed it chooses not to walk away from its three-month-long attempt to acquire Yahoo.

And The New York Times had a similar assessment, citing a source who said talks were back on and that Microsoft [...]

As Vamosi points out, there’ve been a handful of such attacks over the last decade: during the Kosovo conflict in the late ’90s, between Russia and other former Soviet nations, and even during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Vamosi is also quick to mention that the United States, among other countries, is starting to develop [...]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison

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Finally, a technology executive willing to tell the truth about cloud computing. Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison said that the computer industry is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion and cloud computing is simply the latest fashion. The Wall Street Journal quoted the Oracle CEO’s remarks:

Frank Gillett of Forrester speaks about [...]

In a press release, ITAA president and CEO Phil Bond said, “The global reach of CSIA, with its Brussels office, will bring valuable new perspective and resources to ITAA’s own Information Security program and complement our work with the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA).”

CSIA includes the top security providers and seeks to influence [...]

A day after embracing cloud computing, VMware on Tuesday turned its focus to desktop applications.
In conjunction with its VMworld conference, the virtualization company announced the general availability of VMware Fusion 2.0, its software for running the Windows operating system on the
Mac. Along with touting new features and enhancements from version 1.x, VMware stressed that Fusion [...]

Not so fast.

Sure, the Democrats and Republicans are eager to court deep-pocketed donors. But the power broker image exists more in the minds of the people living between San Jose and San Francisco than it does with the movers and shakers guiding the Obama and McCain campaigns.
If you reside in Washington [...]

iLike, the social music service that rose to popularity with the launch of Facebook’s developer platform last year, is getting bigger. The company announced that membership has surpassed 30 million users, and that it’ll soon be getting the buzz out even more by letting developers put music on their sites through an iLike application programming [...]

Terrorists, not just organized criminals, are interested in stealing and using your credit card history. That’s one of the surprising trends identified by Rusin and documented in a Department of Justice white paper (PDF) that cites the increasing involvement of terrorist networks, starting as far back as the 2002 bombing in Bali.

Threaded among the [...]

After over a year of operation, Spotplex is closing up shop, according to a message on their site. The company states that, “We regret to inform you that Spotplex is going offline. This was a very hard decision for us and we are sure you will miss the service as much as we do.”
There is [...]