September 5th, 2007
News to know: Foleo nixed; Yahoo; OOXML spin; iPod day
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Palm cancels Foleo. Ed Colligan: A Message to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers.
David Berlind: Stillborn: Palm’s Foleo.
Yahoo acquires behavioral ad firm for $300 million.
Statement: Yahoo buys BlueLithium. Techmeme. Larry Dignan: Should Yahoo outsource search to Google?
Mary Jo Foley: Why Microsoft deserved to lose OOXML standards vote. Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft spins OOXML loss as a win PCs. Techmeme.
Microsoft delivers to partners only a new build of Dynamics CRM ‘Titan‘
‘Lucky’ camera boosts telescope. Images: 
Taking the blur out of heavenly pictures (right).
Think Secret: Touch-screen iPod to take center stage. News.com: The iPod grows up.
David Morgenstern:
Will the rumor machine ruin Apple’s iPod surprise?
Countdown to Leopard: Snapshots are a good thing.
David Berlind: With ZDNet’s pod-vidcasting TestBed prototype, we look at the new AJAXy AOL Mail.
Larry Dignan: AMD preps Barcelona: Who’s going to sell it?
Dan Kusnetzky: Cassatt Announces Green Computing Strategy.
Ryan Stewart: Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot. Microsoft statement.
Dan Farber: A Bill of Rights for the social Web.
Robin Harris: Data compression you can see.
Dan Farber: Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo.
NBC Universal lands with Amazon.
Ryan Naraine: Cache poisoning flaw is death knell for BIND 8. More Firefox URI handling security hiccups.
Garett Rogers: GDrive to be included in Google Apps? Gpay: Send money to people with SMS? David Berlind: Trademark suit against Google would have set an ugly precedent in ad business.
Larry Dignan: Microsoft exec: Zune gets a B-; Xbox profitability; Windows Mobile’s future.
MetroPCS plans to take a Leap.
Michael Krigsman: Cut them loose.
People search engine Rapleaf revises privacy policy.
Dana Blankenhorn: Should doctors e-mail patients?
Gartner: Expect an enterprise iPhone. Study: iPhone tops July smart-phone sales.
George Ou: No more distorted faces with content-aware resizing.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Quad-core PC project - Windows Experience Index. A question of hard drive capacity. Problems so far.
Students seek gear with get up and go. Gallery (right).
Valleywag: Eric Schmidt’s girlfriend gets the Googler crown.
Mitch Ratcliffe: Put the lid on Quechup.
Ryan Stewart: Flash Player 9 stats released, penetration at 90%+.
Roland Piquepaille: Nanomagnetic sponges to clean artwork?
Larry Dignan: RIM: Canary in the enterprise spending coal mine?
China hosts nearly half of all malware sites
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