September 27th, 2007
News to know: Microsoft Live Search; Google 2.0; Newton's return?
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Five take aways on Microsoft’s new
Live Search. Gallery (right). Microsoft’s new search guru talks strategy.
Larry Dignan: Pondering Google 2.0: How will it get to $100 billion in revenue?
Microsoft, Google square off in Washington.
Garett Rogers: Is Google ditching pagerank?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft Stealth Update and Windows XP repair don’t mix.
David Berlind: Latest StorCenter NAS appliance from Iomega packs 2×500MB (1TB), RAID into $349 package. Paul Murphy: The $100 server nightmare. Christopher Dawson: $450 just bought me a sweet laptop.
Michael Krigsman: New research into IT project failures
AppleInsider: Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton. Russell Shaw: The Apple Newton? Reports say it’s coming b-a-a-a-a-ck. Matthew Miller: Will we finally see an Apple ultra-portable PC in 2008?
TUAW: Apple sends takedown to iPod hacker’s ISP
Mary Jo Foley: Excel 2007 is math-challenged.
Microsoft on Excel. Coming Soon: Microsoft 2.0 the book. Odd bedfellows: Facebook and Windows Live Spaces.
Photos: Low-cost tech that meets basic needs (right).
Roland Piquepaille: Ordinary CD players to monitor our health? Dana Blankenhorn: Is open source the cure for health care?
Ryan Naraine: German security shop challenges anti-hacker laws.
Computerworld: The horror: ‘Ghost servers’ that haunt your bottom line.
Marc Wagner: OLPC revisited - a skeptics view.
DEMOfall 07: New players in Web conferencing and meeting management.
Paula Rooney: Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, Simonyi said.
George Ou: Europe’s new ‘monopoly’ tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO.
ReadWriteWeb: Yahoo! to Close Its Podcasting Site.
Russell Shaw: Vonage gets a break in Verizon patent suit: monetary award vacated. New FCC numbers: most wireline, wireless rates are on a slow climb.
Privacy experts: T.J. Maxx breach was foreseeable.
Intel, Nokia team up on WiMax. Intel has ARM in its crosshairs.
Gizmodo: NBC Adds Two New Series to iTunes
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DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux.
FAQ: What does the digital-TV switch actually mean? Gallery.
Jason O’Grady: .Mac performance concerns in Europe.
IBM’s Booch: The developer’s developer
Phil Wainewright: Is conventional software built on bubble economics? Dan Kusnetzky: Can Operating Systems be Replaced by Virtual Machine Software?
Larry Dignan: Oracle vs SAP gets trial date.
Sony sells 250,000 new PSPs in four days
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