August 24th, 2007
News to know: Vista in your living room; Microsoft ditches anti-Linux site; SAP
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Vista Media Center takes over the living room. Gallery (right): Using Windows Vista as a home theater hub.
David Berlind’s Tech Shakedown #6: Could Kodak site’s Vista incompatibilities be a sign of something else?
Dan Farber: SAP’s cautious Web 2.0 imagineering. Dennis Howlett: SAPs 429 page lecture: who’s learning what?
Mary Jo Foley: A hasty move to Google Apps a ‘career-limiting move.’ MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work.
Microsoft kills its ‘Get the Facts’ anti-Linux site.
Nikon enlists new cameras in battle vs. Canon. 
Gallery (right).
Ryan Naraine: Mac users waiting months for ‘critical’ Java runtime update
TechCrunch: Could The GPhone Be Nigh?
Russell Shaw: Unified communications vs. end user: enterprise IP battle lines are drawn
Paul Murphy: The UltraSPARC T2 and file security
Nokia: Matsushita Battery to cover the direct costs related to the advisory.
Michael Krigsman: Boeing virtual fence: $30 billion failure.
Matthew Miller: Ed Colligan: We have only just begun to fight! Palm: Thanks Engadget.
David Berlind: Pictures from Phase 2 construction of our poor-man’s video studio.
Henry Blodget: Mary Meeker’s YouTube math.
Larry Dignan: Sun: We’re a Java company, just ask our ticker Ed Burnette: Sun changes stock ticker to JAVA
George Ou: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
Larry Dignan: Palm Foleo delayed: Anyone notice?
Valleywag: Has Craig Newmark quit Craigslist?
Can small business count on VoIP?
Call centers put accent on speech recognition
PC World: Monster shuts down rogue server. Monster statement.
iRobot’s Angle on the future: More profit
Teen wonders if we’ll leave an ‘IT wasteland’
Using eyes and hands for Web surfing
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: MTV punishes Microsoft for abandoning PlaysForSure
Photos: Russian air show aims high
Dana Blankenhorn: How much do open source license terms matter? When do you drop your closed source vendor?
Mary Jo Foley: A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Milan
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