April 18th, 2007
News to know: BlackBerry outage; Oracle patches; Intel's data centers; Vonage woe
Notable headlines:
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry outage reports pile up on the three major BB forums. BULLETIN: massive BlackBerry email failures Tuesday night.
Ryan Naraine: Oracle Patch Day: 37 flaws fixed. Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw.
Larry Dignan: Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too high. Techmeme discussion.
Privacy concerns dog Google-DoubleClick deal.
Semel sees DoubleClick advertisers defecting.
Vonage: Verizon patent suit could bankrupt us.
Ed Burnette: Beware of blog: A rush to judgment.
Facebook becomes bulletin board for Virginia Tech. Techmeme discussion.
Ban on monthly Net access taxes faces obstacles.
Intel beefs up portable PC push. Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement. Intel adds WiMax in 2008.
Photos: A Chinese Intel Developer Forum (right).
Larry Dignan: A peek at Intel’s data center strategy. Gallery (left).
EMC: Tech spending solid; VMware hits $1B revenue run rate.
David Berlind: Penfield-Jackson's revenge? For Silverlight (and Microsoft) to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up?
Gizmodo: Rumor Smashed: Apple's WWDC Keynote Not 3 Hours.
Dan Farber @ Web 2.0 Expo:
- Google presentation app on the way. Google treads on PowerPoint turf. Donna Bogatin, Garett Rogers and Dana Gardner.
- Swivel launches a YouTube for data and charts.
- Dana Gardner: My favorite Web 2.0 themes: SOA and business applications as advertising platforms.
- Video: Eric Schmidt talks DoubleClick.
- Study finds weak participation on Web 2.0 sites.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Why are people so worried about Vista boot times?
Apple Insider: Apple seriously considering iPhone rebate, subsidy - report. Wired: What's happening to our lovely cult?
IBM hits the mark on earnings.
Intel on target; Revenue light.
TheStreet.com: Seagate earnings stall.
Photos: Careless users prove PCs and drinks don't mix (right).
Light Reading: Could Vonage Sprint to an Exit? Russell Shaw: Vonage may sell itself to SprintNextel
as soon as next week.
Reviews: Vulcan FlipStart E-1001S (left); Motorola Q, Amp'd Edition.
Microsoft launches Firefox Media Player plug-in.
Dan Kusnetzky: Conversation with Marathon Technology.
IGN: Xbox 360 Notebook Computer Converter Announced.
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