April 11th, 2007
News to know: Patch fiesta; Boot Camp; Apache calls out Sun; Slow hard disks
Notable headlines:
Clock is ticking on Apple's Boot Camp beta.
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Vista dinged again. New Word 2007 flaws, exploits released.
Oracle p
atches to fix 37 flaws.
Review: Nokia N95. Gallery (left).
Mary Jo Foley: Parting shots from parting Microsoftie. Larry Dignan: Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded.
Ryan Stewart: How Adobe can overcome the issues around open sourcing the Flash Player.
Ed Burnette: Sun mulls Apache’s “Dear Jonathan” letter.
Data on 2.9 million Georgians goes missing.
Web Worker Daily: Gmail: Not Behind, Just Going in a Different Direction.
Russell Shaw: 36 Hours Of Standby BlackBerry battery time? Yea, right.
Game developers adapt to multicore world.
Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot? SQL Serve
r 'Katmai' testing to begin in June. Gallery: Windows splash screens (right).
Larry Dignan: Viacom shacks up with Yahoo. Paidcontent.org on the deal. Donna Bogatin on Google's risk.
Citigroup likely to consolidate IT, back office ops.
Robin Harris: Hard disks 'do' get slower with use.
Donna Bogatin: Google aims to usurp campus e-mail systems.
GigaOm: MuniFi: Build it and they still don’t come?
Computerworld: Top 10 Firefox extensions to avoid.
Roland Piquepaille: Imaging the center of the Earth. Gallery: Emerging tech's greatest hits (left).
Wired: Blogging in a Land Where the Press Isn't Free.
Analyst: Corel's DRM patch only a bandage.
Matthew Miller: Palm developing its own Linux operating system, not the ALP. Techmeme discussion.
No end in sight to hacking of 'WoW' accounts.
Gizmodo: iRobot's New Bots Clean Your Pool, Bring You Mai Tais.
Gallery: Hybrids that give back to the grid (right).
Dan Kusnetzky: ClearCube's approach to getting there virtually.
Steve O'Hear: Interview: SplashCast's Marshall Kirkpatrick.
eWeek: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: Some Assembly Required.
AP: Pixar Backdating Could Cost Disney.
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