Daily news beat for August 4, 2008

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Aug 4, 20081 min

Nearly a month after the critical flaw in DNS was reported, vendors including Cisco, Juniper, and Microsoft are scrambling to fix a problem that can essentially undo part of the patches that address the bug.

BI stalwart SAS scoops up IDeaS, a maker of revenue-management software, and a SAS official says the company is expecting to layer analytics under the acquired technology.

Mobile Linux group the LiMo Foundation has attracted 11 new members, and seven additional commercially available phones are based on the LiMo platform.

Apple briefly returned NetShare to the App Store on Friday, only to then yank it a second time — once again without explanation.

And with AMD and Intel having already delivered quad-core chips and software vendors now closing the gap, developers face a steep learning curve when it comes to multithreading, parallel, and concurrent. Here’s what developers need to know to make their apps work well on next-generation CPUs: Taking advantage of multicore PCs.