May 18th, 2007
News to know: iPhone; Dell's net gear; DRM-free movies
Notable headlines:
Engadget on how iPhone delay story happened. Techmeme discussion.
Larry Dignan: iPhone: The pieces are falling in place for lift-off. AppleInsider: Apple iPhone receives FCC approval. Russell Shaw: iPhone test results now live on FCC site: here are pics, links.
Dan Farber: Dell’s Project Hybrid: Pre-packaging the datacenter. Photos (right): Dell enterprise gear on display.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Can we expect to see DRM-free movies any time soon?
AMD’s new Puma stalking Intel’s Centrino.
Dion Hinchcliffe: The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1
Paul Murphy: Top 10 things you don’t want to hear in IT.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft offers guidelines for next-gen UMPCs. Vista Service Pack 1: It lives. Microsoft’s ODF vote–amends for its patent attack?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Firefox becoming bloated?
Gallery: 
How do I… Perform basic formatting in Excel 2007.
Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby group.
Mapping out the nanotech economy.
Ryan Naraine: Renegade spam fighter returns to game Digg, YouTube.
Techrepublic: Should you accept a management position?
Ad giant to scoop up 24/7 Real Media. Larry Dignan: Guess Microsoft wasn’t interested in 24/7 after all.
Donna Bogatin: Google YouTube: Will Microsoft, Yahoo have last laugh? Google Book Search: Google Manifest Destiny races on.
Russell Shaw: Skype creating Game Channel, Game Developer Program.
Computerworld: Is speech recognition finally good enough?
Dan Kusnetzky: Storage virtualization and green computing.
Garett Rogers: Video sharing websites: Google “has them all.” Donna Bogatin: How Microsoft battles Google in Search warfare.
Photos (right): 21st century icebox.
MarketWatch: Intuit posts strong profit, sales growth in tax season.
TorrentFreak: BitTorrent in Focus: TV-series are Hot.
Joe McKendrick: Who takes credit for SOA ’success’? Should IT?
Ryan Stewart: Fiveruns jumps into Rails and provides management suite.
Wired: What Makes Techmeme Tick? Inventor Gabe Rivera Explains.
Techrepublic: Use the power of these PHP functions to sort your arrays.
Baseline: Laptop Security on the Cheap.
Images (left): American mass consumption, by the numbers.
Game turns moviegoers into human joysticks.
Motorola to buy video encoding company.
Dana Gardner: Survey says: Microsoft’s patent might worries few, angers many more.
Steve O’Hear: Spock, a first look.
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