July 9th, 2007
News to know: Vista SP1 nears; iPhone Java support; Sprint's customer service
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July. Larry Dignan: The strategy behind Vista SP1. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Microsoft rushing Vista SP1 to boost adoption?
Ed Bott: The Vista driver outlook gets a little brighter.
Ed Burnette: A
pple sneaks Java support onto the iPhone.
Review: Samsung Q1 Ultra (Q1U-V at left) .
Christopher Dawson: Google calculator - it’s no TI-89, but it’s pretty cool.
Sprint’s customer service fiasco:
- Splitting up with your cell phone carrier.
- Larry Dignan: Time to boycott Sprint over its customer treatment.
- Russell Shaw: Sprint said to cancel nearly 200 military accounts. More Sprint outrages: phone, store employees told to shoo away cancelled account appeals. That to-be-disconnected Sprint customer tells me all.
Mary Jo Foley: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb? Microsoft tries evading new GPL grasp.
- Dana Gardner: SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application development.
- Joe McKendrick: Another view: avoid bottom-up SOA like the plague. Turn your SOA into a HOA (human oriented architecture).
Images: The sci-fi effect on high tech (right).
Computerworld: Army medics get new handhelds for battle applications.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt: India, globalization and the economics of scarcity.
Five outsourcing trends to watch.
IHT: US telecommunications company Verizon’s copper cutoff traps customers, hampers rivals.
Jason O’Grady: iPhone Diary Day 8: A hacker’s handbook. Russell Shaw: U.S. Best Buy to sell the iPhone?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house.
Photos: 
Top 10 reviews this week.
Long Zheng: When three ex-MSFTies partner: They’re Beautiful!
Ryan Naraine: Auction site opens up for exploits, vulnerabilities.
Robert Scoble: Why Microsoft outplays Apple long term.
Joshua Greenbaum: The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite’s IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software.
New York Times: Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Prices as Many Xboxes Fail.
WSJ: EA chief cites need for more innovative games.
Christopher Dawson: Linux definitely has a place in education.
Dan Kusnetzky: Day 6 of the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick.
Engadget: Extravagant World of Warcraft setup includes 47 PCs, seven monitors.
New York Times: Technology’s Untanglers: They Make It Really Work.
News.com: The 787 Dreamliner is here
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Smart Planet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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