November 3rd, 2008
News to know: Black market zero days; Microsoft security; BlackBerry Bold; SAP
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Dancho Danchev: Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
Josh Taylor: Hands on with the BlackBerry Bold
CNET News: Salesforce.com extends cloud computing service
- Phil Wainewright: At last, this is how websites should be built
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Tech Busts, Two: 2008 Worse For Blue Chips Than 2000
Dennis Howlett: SAP: Claus Heinrich resigns from executive board
Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week (right)
TechRepublic: 10 dumb things IT pros do that can mess up their networks
Sam Diaz: Should Facebook be tapping users for cash?
- TechCrunch: Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.
- VentureBeat: What we know and what we don’t know about Facebook’s finances
Ed Bott: Clearing up the Windows Live confusion
Christopher Dawson: One more reason for Classmate to step up
Brian Sommer: SAP, Oracle, SaaS - The changing ERP market
- BE (Bearingpoint) - Up for sale?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Software and business method patents take a hit
- Joe McKendrick: SOA fear factor
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?
- Forrester: Better late than never: Microsoft Office Web apps percolating
Robert Scoble: Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability to turn a corner
Oliver Marks: FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco
Dana Blankenhorn: The health IT archipelago
Kingsley-Hughes: Stop Blu-ray discs from phoning home with AnyDVD HD
- Robin Harris: Blu-ray is dead: the sequel
Sean Portnoy: Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
Deb Perelman: My Awesome IT Job: Enterprise Architect, IBM
TechRepublic: The five fundamentals of IT consulting
LA Times Blog: MySpace, MTV Networks team with Auditude to profit from online video
Heather Clancy: AMD updates global climate protection goals
- IBM’s management and testing software updated with energy conservation in mind
- The greening of meetings: Brought to you by emerging technology
- Harry Fuller: Follow the money
- Green tech company hits the red, and the panic button
Larry Dignan: IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs
The Guardian: Amnesty criticises Global Network Initiative for online freedom of speech
How to: Filtering unwanted music in iTunes (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Highlights from NetApplications data for October - Linux market share drops
- Linux to out ship Windows by next year … maybe not!
- Paul Murphy: A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS X
- Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect Analysts take Microsoft’s pulse: Will the software giant peak in next few years?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Intel breaks up Wintel through Asus WePC deal
San Francisco Chronicle: Salesforce.com CEO’s head is still in a ‘cloud’Dennis Howlett: No recession in Joyent’s cloud
Jennifer Leggio: Cool Tools - TwitterScope threads Twitter’s tweets
Dawson: Enough already with the Luddite schools
Jason O’Grady: Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the Mac
Zack Whittaker: Managing your PDF’s student style
Gallery: Best Windows software for a hard-hit economy (right)
Garett Rogers: New Gmail SMS feature delayed for two weeks
Dana Blankenhorn: The Twiki fork, a takeover opportunity?
Sean Portnoy: Dell updates XPS One with 24-inch 1080p screen
Roland Piquepaille: Using lasers to watch electrons in action
Michael Krigsman: Let’s meet at Dreamforce in San Francisco
NYT: 30 Seconds to Boot Up? That’s 29 Too ManyJason O’Grady: Episode 95: PowerPage Podcast
Matthew Miller: Will we see Windows Mobile 6.5 before 7?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 100,000 Sony batteries recalled
Tom Foremski: Sorting through the promises of virtualization
Andrew Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: Preview fonts before installing
Mission accomplished: Google’s ad deal with Yahoo has already worked
Beyond findability: The search for active intelligence
Akamai: Weathering a price war; economic slowdown
How hackers were thwarted at the Beijing Olympics
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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