May 21st, 2009
News to know: Botnets; Adobe patch day; NetApp; Craigslist
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Dancho Danchev: Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery
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Inside the botnets that never make the news (right)
Mary Jo Foley: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1: Now available to the public
- Microsoft: Exchange 2007 SP2 required for interop with Exchange 2010
- Microsoft’s Ozzie defends Microsoft’s aggressive online spending
- ‘Partner’ bots: The next killer robotics app? (And will Microsoft bite?)
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement
- Joe McKendrick: Time to get bullish on SOA, IT, and the economy (2)
- Dana Blankenhorn: Can open source refuse to do business?
- Oliver Marks: Request for Enterprise 2.0 Case Studies: Present Your Environment in Boston
- Jason Hiner: EMC: Virtualization is ready to run the world’s biggest applications
Heather Clancy: List celebrates 12 of America’s greenest cities
- Advanced Data Centers strives to be an aqua-friendly data center
- Harry Fuller: Portugal’s wave farm may be sunk
- Car makers now LIKE higher emission standards?
- Google: Energized about our first Google PowerMeter partners
Dell: Dell Mini demo on Android
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: When (and why) do you buy a new PC?
Intel’s next-gen Atom platform - Pine Trail
Gallery: Intel rebuilds netbooks
- Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?
- Ars Technica: Hands-on: Intel brings rich UI to Moblin Linux platform
Dignan: Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaint
Dana Gardner: Rise of WebKit advances mobile Web’s role, opens huge opportunity for enterprise device developers
- Brian Sommer: Two BPM interviews that show how robust custom development still is
- Forrester: Are big boxes better for server virtualization?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstream
- Dan Kusnetzky: Opnet - finger pointing raised to high art
Oxx Digital Tube–photosChristopher Dawson: Gmail translation = pen pals on steroids for students
Jennifer Leggio: New podcast shows simpler yet edgier side of social media
Jennifer Bergen: BlackBerry Curve 8900 available at AT&T on May 22
- Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Kodak M1073 bundle, iTunes gift card, Garmin nuvi GPS
- Rachel King: Interested in buying SLR? Don’t pay full price
James Farrar: IBM & FXA Helping Assure Safety of Vietnam Seafood Exports
HP’s printing business: Will ink spending be questioned in the long run?
Twitter: Does Twitter Hate Advertising?
Dana Blankenhorn: More good design in medicine please
‘ZuneX’ gaming portable/cell phone in the works?
TechCrunch: The Freemium Model And A Desktop App Get The Thumbs Up With Pandora One
Microsoft files ‘magic wand’ trademark
Yahoo search: Time to kill the 10 blue links
Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?
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