October 18th, 2007
News to know: Office Live Workspace; Leopard; Web 2.0 Summit; Digital media ethics
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Get a sneak peek of Mic
rosoft’s Office Live Workspace service. Gallery (right). Ryan Stewart: Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft’s services.
Ryan Naraine: Memory randomization (ALSR) coming to Mac OS X Leopard.
Dan Farber @ Web 2.0 Summit: Rubert Murdoch and Chris DeWolfe. Zuckerberg on Facebook. Google Health, Nokia 810, Adobe. Twitter: Aggressively applying constraints.
Ed Bott: Digital media ethics: it’s personal.
Michael Krigsman: Consulting’s dirty little secret.
Ryan Naraine: Opera, Netscape ship ‘critical’ browser patches. Richard Stiennon: Don’t blame cost of security on the vendors
Russell Shaw: Revealed: Comcast Digital Voice’s policy for customer records requests from law enforcement.
Google says it’s working to solve health record dilemma.
AppleInsider: Apple’s U.S. Mac market share rises to 8.1 percent in Q3.
David Berlind: Reviewcast: Saleforce.com’s Visual Force is like an on-demand version of FoxPro (but better). Twitterizing mainstream media 102: The Zude to Facebook/Twitter to ZDNet to Del.icio.us connection.
Robin Harris: Disks that look like tape.
Gallery: Polycom’s video conferencing (right). George Ou: Polycom launches new HD 720p video conferencing and presence solutions.
Dennis Howlett: SAP loves Eclipse and widgets (and Flex). AP: SAP earnings up on license growth.
Larry Dignan: eBay’s financials excluding Skype charge shine.
Steve O’Hear: MySpaceIM and Skype hook up. Russell Shaw: Why the Skype-MySpace deal won’t work all that well. IM security expert: Skype-MySpace is “an IT disaster”
Ryan Stewart: Newsweek launches new site with Brightcove tools.
Jason O’Grady: Third party applications confirmed for iPhone (updated). Techmeme. Ed Burnette: gPhone may force Apple to open iPhone. Matthew Miller: Nokia announces N810 Internet Tablet with GPS and OS 2008.
A real yardstick for virtual worlds?
Google Blogoscoped: Google Docs goes mobile.
Bill would let ID theft victims seek restitution.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: OK, I admit it, Leopard has more “Wow!” than Vista … in theory anyway. Yeah, but where are the “Top Secret” Leopard features that Steve Jobs promised?
Heather Clancy: Tech support service seeks to green-optimize your PC.
Photos: ‘Hunter-killer’ takes to Afghan skies.
Dan Farber: Atlassian, NewsGator hook into SharePoint.
Paula Rooney: Microsoft claims it is not party to patent claims against Linux.
Mary Jo Foley: New Microsoft job site highlights consumer-focused openings.
Scott McNealy far from retired.
Dan Kusnetzky: Virtual Iron offers “Once and Done” virtual server environment. XenSource passes thousand customer mark.
Ancestry.com parent sold for $300 million.
Interface: More than skin deep.
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
For daily updates, follow Larry on Twitter.
Subscribe to Between the Lines via Email alerts or RSS.
