July 17th, 2007
News to know: Salesforce.com; iPhone/Safari dialer; Rupe lands Dow Jones
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service. Salesforce swings into its Summer ‘07 release.
Ryan Naraine: Beware the iPhone/Safari dialer.
Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? Larry Dignan: CIO switches his company from Windows to Macs. Computerworld: Mac Attack! An enterprise PC shop switches to Apple.
Garett Rogers: Google cuts cookie clutter by 29 years. Google blog.
Photos: Wireless USB devices (right).
Intel aims to speed Linux gadget development. AMD, Intel paths diverge.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft ponies up cell-phone, green-computing research funding. Silverlight Release Candidate due this month.
Joe McKendrick: Will Web 2.0 displace the WS-* protocols? More top-down versus bottom-up SOA. The middle road between Service-Oriented Anarchy and Soviet-Oriented Architecture.
WSJ: Dow Jones, News Corp. Set Deal.
David Berlind: Four-day Mashup Camp off to a good start with two days of ‘Mashup University’
Dan Kusnetzky: Digipede Wins Microsoft ISV of the Year.
Microsoft finalizes Windows Home Server code. Techmeme.
Review (right): LaCie Biggest FW800 (2 terabyte) .
Dana Gardner: IBM broadens its data reach for SOA with DataMirror buy.
AP: IBM in $1.4B Services Deal.
Mark Cuban: Remembering Broadcast.com.
Phil Wainewright: SIs putting product onto AppExchange.
Denise Howell: Facebook and employment: an equal opportunity information trap. Steve O’Hear: Should you trust Facebook with your users? TechCrunch: The Ghost Of Zuckerberg’s Past May Haunt Facebook IPO.
Dan Farber: Super Techies: Larry Tesler–the trail from Xerox PARC to Yahoo.
Review (right): HTC Vox S710 (unlocked).
Hurd says HP doing better, not great.
Russell Shaw: VoIP security? Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt.
Dana Blankenhorn: DRM and open source are the great divide.
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