October 16th, 2007
News to know: Spam standards; Oracle Fusion re-org; YouTube filters
Notable headlines:
David Berlind: Does payback on email alone make Google Apps’ $50/yr. worth it? (Docs, etc? That’s icing). Note to all anti-spam vendors: Why your solutions stink and standards are needed instead.
Dennis Howlett: Oracle re-org confirmed, Fusion leader ousted.
David Morgenstern: Mac OS X Leopard release to set off wave of hardware upgrades.
Garett Rogers: Google launches YouTube copyright filter. Techmeme.
Dan Farber: Microsoft looks to brain for user interface design.
Ryan Naraine: Storm Worm botnet partitions for sale. AOL finally patches AIM worm hole. Sun patchvertising OpenOffice with Java update. Larry Dign
an: Tipsheet: Information security on the cheap.
Dana Blankenhorn: Do doctors need Web 2.0?
TechRepublic: DOS is a beautiful thing
Ed Burnette: Yet another Ajax toolkit: Eclipse RAP 1.0. Ryan Stewart: RAP brings Eclipse into the Ajax framework game.
Photos: DigiGlobe gets up close with satellite photos (right).
Mary Jo Foley: The mystery continues: Why are Windows machines automatically updating themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What’s really broken with Windows Update - Trust.
Charles Cooper: Debating the morality behind software development.
Denise Howell: WikiPatents: 1 year old and 10 million entries. Dana Blankenhorn: The real issue in the software patent fight.
Matthew Miller: Amtrak and T-Mobile offer WiFi at select stations, Sounder trains have free WiFi.
Phone carriers quiet on U.S. surveillance program. AT&T video rollout hits regulatory roadblock.
Five questions: Oracle’s BEA buyout. Joe McKendrick: Soothing words for BEA’s nervous customers. Dennis Howlett: SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?
George Ou: Did AMD Barcelona and Intel Tigerton really ‘launch’?
Rough Type: Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant.
Phil Wainewright: HP talks up SaaS.
Microsoft: New Search Services for Internet and Mobile Customers.
Paul Murphy: Reliability: the biggest challenge of all.
Larry Dignan: AOL to cut 2,000 jobs. Techmeme roundup.
3G phone on a chip: Game changer? Matthew Miller: The Nokia N95 8GB is now shipping.
Computerworld: Ready or not, here comes user PC choice.
Social networks don their platform shoes. Steve O’Hear: Faceb
ook vs LinkedIn (round three).
Airbus delivers the A380, finally (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Time for Apple to get its act together over the iPhone. Larry Dignan: The iPhone impact: Treo, T-Mobile take biggest hit. Jason O’Grady: iJailBreak for iPod Touch. Russell Shaw: User: iTunes-iPod sync involves “too many processes”
False starts in race to future of DVDs.
Dan Kusnetzky : Which should I choose Clustering or Virtual Machine Replication?
Virgin Atlantic 747 to test biofuel in early 2008.
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