October 30th, 2008

News to know: Windows 7; OpenOffice flaws; Cybercrime; Apple

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:05 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, LinkedIn, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Federal Government

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:

Ed Bott: You’ve got Windows 7 questions, I’ve got answers

Sam Diaz: Real vows fight for RealDVD, adjusts outlook

Ryan Naraine: Code execution flaws haunt OpenOffice

• ‘End of life’ beckons for Firefox 2
• Dancho Danchev: CardCops: Stolen credit card details getting cheaper
• Cybercrime friendly EstDomains loses ICANN registrar accreditation

Ed Burnette: Top 10 Android apps for 10/29/2008

Apple: MobileMe: About the Late-September 2008 MobileMe update

Paula Rooney: Alfresco 3.0 delivers collaboration, Sharepoint support

Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just ‘Hailstorm’ revisited?

• Microsoft’s Live Framework: A (revised) picture is worth a thousand words
• Microsoft PDC attendees get ‘the goods’
• Liveblogging Microsoft PDC keynote day three: Robotics and research
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 Aero to take advantage of DirectX 10.1 … where will this leave NVIDIA

Jason Perlow: Kill the data loss monster once and for all

Matthew Miller: T-Mobile G1 data stopped working? Free trial is over and new data rates are coming

Techmeme: Google goes OpenID

CNET News: Intel: solid-state drives boost battery life

Andrew Nusca: Psystar debuts Blu-ray, Nvidia 9800GT before Apple

• Jason O’Grady: Psystar planning Mac OS X notebook
• Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar embraces “Apple tax” with NVIDIA and Blu-ray offerings
• Techmeme

Larry Dignan: Symantec cuts outlook amid ‘pause’ in IT spending

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: VC: “Wait Until Next Year”

• VentureBeat: John Doerr: 10 ways for companies to stay afloat in rough times
• Tom Foremski: I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .

Larry Dignan: HP revs netbooks: Attempts custom Linux OS

• John Morris: HP Mini 1000 netbook gets reviewed early and often
• Matthew Miller: First look at the HP Mini 1000 netbook
• Gallery: HP adds custom OS to netbooks
• Crave: HP gets serious about Netbooks

Roland Piquepaille: Optical fibers with a silicon core?

Knowledge@Wharton: Opportunities — and Obstacles — for the B2B Market in Tough Economic Times

Forrester: What’s he building in there?

Joe McKendrick: Who buys the first round of SOA?

TechRepublic: Which virtualization vendor will win your business?

• The 10 best IT certification Web sites
• How supercomputers still influence programming

Jason O’Grady: Free AT&T WiFi access for iPhones (again)

• iPhone firmware 2.2 includes OTA podcast downloads
• SplashID for iPhone turns 4.5
• Matthew Miller: Full Office functionality coming soon to the iPhone

GigaOm: Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer

Paul Murphy: Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computing

AdAge: Microsoft Enlists Public to Create Latest Ads

Sam Diaz: Motorola picks Android in mobile phone shakeup. Ammunition for smartphone war?

• Dana Blankenhorn: Will the Motorola gamble hurt open source

Michael Krigsman: Three important post-recession IT trends

Bloomberg: Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses

Engadget HD: HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first

• New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions

Images: Browser-based Office (right)

Larry Dignan: Comcast winning broadband scrum vs. telcos

Garmin: Nuvifone on track for 2009 launch, but economy hurts outlook

Christopher Dawson: Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?

Dignan: LinkedIn launches apps network; Keeps its business focus

• Dennis Howlett: LinkedIn’s apps: good idea but…
• Steve O’Hear: LinkedIn apps arrive - another platform play

Richard Koman: FCC commish: White Spaces could win 5-0

• Rockers fight white space; FCC unmoved
• Harvard’s Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation

Dana Blankenhorn: OpenX goes hosted

Photos: GE gets charged up about batteries

Matthew Miller: Can you leave your laptop behind?

Janice Chen: Five more reasons to get the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1

Dan Kusnetzky: DynamicOps self service management for virtual environments

Heather Clancy: New Faronics Power Save version supports auditing of power management policies

Microsoft warns of financial crisis email scams