October 4th, 2007
News to know: AT&T Tilt; Vista SP1; Server flaws; .Net
Notable headlines:
Matthew Miller: First impressions of the AT&T Tilt. 
Gallery: The unboxing.
Mary Jo Foley: Accounted for: The five mystery Vista updates to be added to SP1.
Ryan Naraine: X Font Server flaw hits Sun Solaris hard. Apple (finally) fixes year-old QuickTime flaw.
New York Times: In Facebook, Investing in a Theory
AppleInsider: New iMacs plagued by interface freezing issues. David Morgenstern: Apple releases battery firmware update for some MacBook Pros.
Christopher Dawson: Upcoming Ubuntu release to improve features for educators, general, power users.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to release .Net a
s Shared Source. Ryan Stewart: Microsoft opens the .NET Framework libraries. Techmeme.
Photos: Server room cabling overhaul (right).
Paula Rooney: Adobe slips out first alpha of Flex Builder Linux IDE.
Dan Farber: Google Transit now public.
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry 9000 said on way: 3G with full Backup/Restore.
Garett Rogers: Google Apps becomes a more viable enterprise solution.
Gizmodo: First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers.
Mary Jo Foley: Could customer support be Zune’s biggest selling point? David Berlind: If Zune is #2 after X-Mas, I’ll shave my head.
Intel to boost single-core performance.
Jason O’Grady: Are SSDs ready for prime time? Micron: Momentum builds for solid state drives; Memory comes cheap.
BlimpTV: Vista parody video.
David Morgenstern: iPhone: a different kind of customer?
Gallery: Scenes at Ceatec, day 2.
Larry Dignan: Amazon sheds light on Dynamo. Robin Harris: Inside Amazon.
Dana Gardner: IBM ‘continuum’ helps companies crawl-walk-run along the SOA path.
Phil Wainewright: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS.
CIO survey: HP shines; Virtualization, storage top priorities. EDS, Sabre extend IT services deal.
Richard Stiennon: Children. Be very, very afraid.
David Berlind: Toshiba’s sub-3 lb. projector is a road warrior’s dream; a pricey dream, but still a dream.
DigiTimes: Apple reportedly considering Intel platform for iPhone
Matthew Miller: QuickOffice integrates Mail for Exchange on S60 devices.
Dan Farber: Zoho adds database to office suite.
Spam-scam crackdown nets $2 billion in fake checks.
Cell phone helps Japanese stay fit. NTT DoCoMo considers new pricing model.
Joe McKendrick: Is ‘SOA business case’ a paradox?
George Ou: The 22″ dual-core all-in-one game PC for $765.
Dana Blankenhorn: The cost-growth conflict in health care technology.
Computerworld: The 10 funniest YouTube help desk videos.
Gamers gather for 7th World Cyber Games. Gallery (right).
Blockbuster’s online DVD subscribers seen down.
Yahoo mulls options for shopping site Kelkoo.
A turn in the antispyware war?
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