October 24th, 2007
News to know: PDF attacks; Amazon; Green Grid; NetSuite
Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: Attack of the PDFs. Zero-day flaw in Macrovision DRM app under attack.
Robin Harris: Google’s 650,000-core warehouse-size computer.
Images: Tracking California’s wildfires (right). Qualcomm shuts headquarters amid Calif. fires.
Heather Clancy: Green Grid tech committee update data center efficiency info.
Larry Dignan: Verizon offers new FiOS speeds: What do you do with 20 Mbps upstream? Verizon statement.
Blu-ray outsells HD DVD in U.S. for first nine months.
New York Post: Microsoft, Google duke it out over Facebook.
Larry Dignan: Amazon’s third quarter fails to impress. Amazon margins a concern despite profit jump.
Department of Energy opens doors to tech entrepreneurs.
Larry Dignan: Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio. Techmeme.
News.com: Yang: Being Yahoo CEO is a ‘lonely job‘
Dan Farber: NetSuite SuiteBundler: Most important software of l
ast ten years?
Joe McKendrick: Watch out for falling technology: Wal-Mart’s IT issues.
Start-up warms up personal robots. Gallery right.
Christopher Dawson: OLPC moves from Give 1 Get 1 to just give a bunch.
Russell Shaw: App will let you take document photos with your cellphone camera, then perform flawless OCR scan. Calling the i-Mate Ultimate 9502 a PDA is like calling Rolex a watch.
Download Squad: Gmail gets IMAP.
Ryan Stewart: RIA trend watch: Rich Internet applications in the enterprise.
RIM takes BlackBerry to China.
TechCrunch: With FriendCSV, Data Sneaks Out Facebook’s Back Door. Ad Age: Facebook set to introduce major ad play.
MacRumors: Leopard dock visual tweaks.
Matthew Miller: Microsoft announces System Center Mobile Device Manager; enterprise rejoices (
right). Russell Shaw: Steve Ballmer live from CTIA- announces Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s sleeper smartphone announcement: Live ID from your phone.
Microsoft renumbers, delays next version of one of its ERP products. Dennis Howlett: Microsoft Dynamics Entrepreneur: first looks.
Matthew Miller: Nokia reveals glimpses of the mobile future.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple should start offering Windows-based Macs.
Dell shows some design chops. XPS 420 review.
Russell Shaw: After consultations security expert believes Comcast may be “violating the law” on Torrent practices.
Bits: That Comcastic Voice and Data Network. AP: Comcast Admits Delaying Some Traffic.
Symantec, Microsoft cooperate on security.
Mary Jo Foley: F# becomes a first-class citizen.
Verizon Wireless settles N.Y. probe into marketing.
Cisco buying WiMax start-up for $330 million.
Dan Farber: Siebel (Oracle) CRM mashes up with WebEx (Cisco).
Dana Gardner: Sybase ushers in iPhone as secure client for mainstream corporate email.
Larry Dignan: Oracle sends a “Dear BEA” letter; Puts deadline on offer.
AT&T talks up wireless, TV subscribers
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