October 28th, 2008
News to know: Microsoft's cloud Azure; Android exploit; Windows 7
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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed
- Techmeme
- Why ‘Azure’?
Gallery: Microsoft takes wraps off Windows Azure- Phil Wainewright: Windows Azure: Microsoft mainstreams the cloud
- Ed Bott: Seven questions Microsoft won’t answer about Windows 7
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Well, now we know two flavors of Windows 7
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- PDC Keynote One: Live blogging
- Windows 7 must support netbooks
- Microsoft readies pre-beta release of ‘Windows 7 Server’
- Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do
Ryan Naraine: Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit
- HotJobs site flaw leads to Yahoo account theft
- A peek inside the bank malware epidemic
- John Carroll: Happy Birthday…I’ve stolen $2500 from your account
Jason O’Grady: The perfect external HDD for the Mac mini
- Would you buy a 13-inch MacBook Pro?
- Report: New MacBooks running cooler
- Griffin releases iTalk audio recording app for iPhone
- The MacBook Pro’s “glassy” screen and floating heads
Forrester: Why this tech recession will be different
David Morgenstern: Macs that can run 64-bit Vista
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile G1 battery life solution; turn off everything!
- Android Market opens up and the G1 Achilles heel is exposed
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Mobile You: Taking Fewer Devices … Or More?
- Larry Dignan: Verizon’s third quarter on target; i
Phone dings wireless churn - Apple’s iPhone gets Google Earth
- Gallery: Apple iPhone—welcome to Google Earth (right)
- Google Earth hits the iPhone; Can a Google touch screen phone be that far behind?
- Qik video streaming now available for BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, and Bold
- GigaOm: Finally Truphone for Blackberry Is Ready
Dennis Howlett: The Expense Tracker: as it should be
Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?
Sam Diaz: Analyst: Apple could crush competitors with a $99 iPhone
- Andrew Nusca: Could a $99 iPhone rule the world?
- O’Grady: The $99 iPhone
TechRepublic: IT leaders: Understand the health risks that IT workers face
Windows Live Blog: Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider
David Morgenstern: Run Windows apps on your Mac for free?
Computerworld: Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: “I don’t think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop.”
Dana Blankenhorn: How many distros can a healthy netbook market stand?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Ubuntu getting bloated and slow?
- The real value of Scribe for open source
- John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs
John Morris: First impressions of the Dell Inspiron Mini 12
- Larry Dignan: Dell blurs netbook-laptop lines
NewTeeVee: UPDATED: Revision3 Makes Layoffs, as Does Smashface
Christopher Dawson: Getting customer service right
Michael Krigsman: Dissecting an Agile project from Hell
Heather Clancy: Intel sits atop EPA’s Green Power ranking for Fortune 500 companies
Richard Koman: Dingell tries to slow white spaces vote
US Today: Cable operator Cox to launch cellphone service
Dana Gardner: Identity governance evolves to must-do item on personnel management and IT security checklist
- Joe McKendrick: First 2009 SOA predictions arrive; see fading of the hype
- Brian Sommer: New security venture for mid-market application users
- Book review: The Rise of the Project Workforce
Robin Harris: Learn to love a 10 foot HDTV screen
Diaz: Companies and social media: Can the benefits outweigh the potential distractions?
- Jennifer Leggio: Small business owners reap benefits of social media
- Steve O’Hear: Social Web news: Twitter terrorism, YouTube ads, Social Networking on TV
WSJ: Time to Leave the Laptop BehindRoland Piquepaille: Can a robot be in a good or in a bad mood?
Janice Chen: Canon posts EOS 5D Mark II instruction manual
Tech financing: Are defaults becoming a worry?
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