July 11th, 2007
News to know: Best hard drives; Wi-Fi's dead end; Microsoft CRM Live
Notable headlines:
Robin Harris: Who makes the best hard drives?
Ryan Naraine: Ex-Softies launch anti-malware start-up.
George Ou: Why 2.4 GHz is a dead end for Wi-Fi.
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft drops 6 bulletins, fixing 11 vulnerabilities. Microsoft bulletin.
Command injection flaw found in IE–or is it Firefox? Richard Stiennon: Your DBA has his/her hand in the till.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s CRM Live coming–but not until 2008. Screenshots: Microsoft CRM Live. Phil Wainewright: Microsoft CRM Live: still a lot to learn.
Joshua Greenbaum: Microsoft CRM to Salesforce.com: It’s Lunchtime.
Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come.
David Berlind: Panasonic to ZDNet: Your camera failure was not our fault. But was it?
Microsoft: Microsoft Reader for now optimized for Origami. Kevin Rose: Digg iPhone beta live.
Paul Murphy: How “Wintel thinking” reduces productivity.
Russell Shaw: Consumer watchdog agency: Sprint’s terminations are “outrageous treatment,” and customers should be paid.
Techmeme: New rules could rock wireless world.
Dana Blankenhorn: What is the true value of open source? Linus vs. the GPLv3.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dual-booting XP and Linux - It’s really easy.
Compiler: The $300 Linux-Powered ‘iPhone Killer’ Arrives.
Michael Dell: Anti-crapware poster CEO? Dell talks OLPC, green IT, Vista uptake and Dell 2.0.
Dell rolls out SMB notebooks dubbed Vostro sans ‘Trialware.’
Life without Google: ChaCha bets on people power. Gallery (right).
Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place. February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch.
Ballmer hints at Microsoft’s future in the ‘cloud.’
News.com: Mac desktops are smarter money, says CIO.
Dan Farber: Marc Canter to Ning: help social networks open-up.
TiVo, Amazon to sell movies straight to TV sets.
Jason O’Grady: iPhone Diary Day 12: Keeping your screen clean.
Vietnam: The next offshoring hot spot?
Cisco, Microsoft, EMC form government-data alliance.
Phil Wainewright: Putting the SaaS back into SOA.
Review: Fujitsu LifeBook T4220 (Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Windows XP Tablet Edition).
Day 10 of the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick.
DMW Analysis: Nielsen Swaps One Problematic Metric For Another. Ryan Stewart: “Time Spent” is a better metric for Rich Internet Applications.
Has McDonald’s found the networked kitchen of the future?
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