Open borders sought for virtual worlds (Reuters)

Interoperability is emerging as a key goal of the nascent virtual world industry, which attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in investment on the hopes that video-game graphics and rich 3-D environments will supplant flat Web pages.

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Adobe Acrobat, Reader vulnerable to hacks (CNET News.com)

Adobe Systems, whose software is used by millions of people to read documents sent over the Internet, said some of its programs contain a flaw that makes personal computers vulnerable to attack.

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AT&T Gobbles Up Spectrum in Preparation for 3-G IPhones and Other Devices (Wired)

Paving the way for the U.S. release of a 3-G iPhone and other next-generation devices, AT&T said on Tuesday it will purchase a substantial chunk of 700-MHz licenses.

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Satire: NASA Announces Plan To Bring Wi-Fi To Its Headquarters By 2017 (The Onion)

NASA administrator Michael Griffin announced during a press conference Tuesday that the space agency is launching an ambitious mission to make Houston's Johnson Space Center wireless-Internet capable within one decade.

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Hi, Jaiku: Google expands communications reach with microblogging service purchase (Ars Technica)

Google has acquired microblogging underdog Jaiku in an attempt to round out its messaging services. It may also result in bringing order to the world of microblogging, including protocol standardization

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100 Gb/s Internet2 completed (TG Daily)

At its Fall 2007 member meeting, the Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators.

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