October 30th, 2007
News to know: Meebo; IBM; Gmail 2.0; PS3 supercomputer
Notable headlines:
Robin Harris: Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer.
IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry. Gallery (right).
Michael Krigsman: What’s the value in enterprise software?
Dan Farber: Meebo joins the season of platforms. Tom Foremski: Battle for social app developers breaks out as Meebo offers rev share.
Garett Rogers: New version of Gmail starting to roll out. Techmeme.
Phil Wainewright: A pain in the -aaS.
Mary Jo Foley: When will Microsoft drop the other health-service shoe? ODF infighting could help Microsoft’s OOXML.
Ryan Naraine: The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead. Microsoft privacy guru’s site hacked.
George Ou: Intel’s new 3.0 GHz quad 45nm QX9650 uses less than 65 watts.
Leopard Launch: 
David Morgenstern: How much do you LOVE Mac OS X Leopard? Leopard Poll 2: Thumbs up or down?
Jason O’Grady: Leopard gotcha: Filemaker.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:Time Machine - Part I: Is it as good as Apple wants us to believe? Gallery (right) .
Larry Dignan: BEA’s stance on Oracle deal. Dana Gardner: Time appears on Oracle’s side in increasingly spooky BEA bid. Dennis Howlett: Gartner comments on Oracle reorg, misses golden opportunity.
TechCrunch: Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
Paula Rooney: Red Hat, GroundWork Expand Alliance.
Bogus FTC e-mail has virus.
News.com: Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president.
FAQ: What the daylight saving shift means to you.
Computerworld: Ethics in IT: Dark secrets, ugly truths — and little guidance. Infoworld: The perils of dirty data.
David Berlind: What’s worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy.
Roland Piquepaille: Displaying handheld data on a table.
Heather Clancy: Forrester’s prescription for green IT. India data center deploys HP cooling technology.
Joe McKendrick: ITILizing SOA: Latest release of best practices has SOA written all over it.
Dan Farber: The next big thing: User-contributed metadata.
Variety: Zucker says Apple deal rotten.
Photos: X Prize rocket rally in New Mexico (right). X Prize Cup rocket competition flames out.
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source glass half-empty or half-full?
Ryan Stewart: Akamai and Fios work the download angle on HD video. Verizon shows FiOS, Wireless gains.
Dan Kusnetzky: Challenges of lifecycle management of virtual systems.
Walgreens to introduce DVD-burning kiosks.
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