October 31st, 2008

News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:08 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Patent, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Worm, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers

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

Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors

• Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap
• John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface is king

Adam O’Donnell: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!

• Ryan Naraine: Opera sings the security blues
• Adobe nukes ‘critical’ Pagemaker flaws
• Cyberattacks target UK national infrastructure
• Dancho Danchev: Phishers apply quality assurance, start validing credit card numbers

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another ‘Mojave’

• Dana Gardner: Microsoft’s cloud push: Too little too late on purpose?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is out

• Images: Ubuntu’s Intrepid Ibex on the loose (right)
• TechRepublic: How often do you switch OSes or distributions?

WSJ: Talks Over Google-Yahoo Search Deal Fail to Progress

CNET News: Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru

Sam Diaz: Sun posts $1.67 billion loss on write-off

• GE’s SaaS launch validates Aravo, a salesforce.com for supply chain

Reuters: US appeals court rejects business method patents

Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?

Brian Sommer: Reengineering HR Solutions #2

Joshua Greenbaum: More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software

• Michael Krigsman: Six tips when buying enterprise software
• Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

Google: What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud

Larry Dignan: Motorola: Handset unit spin-off delayed; No Android ’til next Christmas; Layoffs on tap

• Andrew Nusca: Motorola gPhone by Xmas ‘09: A big mistake?
• Sam Diaz: A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm?
• Silicon Republic: BlackBerry Storm price plans revealed

Caroline McCarthy: The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff

 Christopher Dawson: Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning

Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades

• Kingsley-Hughes: Does anyone expect Apple’s ads to be truthful?

Dana Blankenhorn: Has Chrome fixed its Adobe problem?

• Garett Rogers: Google supports OpenID, kind of
• Matthew Miller: How do I know what applications are updated in the Android Market?

I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit it

Jason O’Grady: 6GB of RAM possible in new MacBook and MBP

• Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall Guide
• USB 2.0 is faster on MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
• David Morgenstern: Who’s buying the iPhone and why

Dan Kusnetzky: Scary virtualization dream for Halloween

Joe Brockmeier: WePC: Intel and Asus forming community, or focus group 2.0?

Joe McKendrick: Best SOA governance is hard to see

Silicon Alley Insider: Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts

Jennifer Leggio: Plurk dissolves into social networking ghost town

Heather Clancy: Eight more states covered under vendor-led tech recycling initiative

• Harry Fuller: Electric cars on the streets

Roland Piquepaille: Duplicating your keys without your knowledge

Netflix distribution grab continues: Hooks up with Tivo

Richard Koman: Innocents being sued for game piracy

• Viacom perks up at Google Books settlement
• Estonian registrar gets a reprieve

Christopher Dawson: So where are the Classmates here in the States?

• OSUM portal from Sun
• A better way to do legacy software

Blankenhorn: Health Care IT a promise too far?

• There is one global market in an open source world