October 31st, 2007
News to know: Google's Facebook killer; HD DVD price war; Ellison's lockbox
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: Google’s OpenSocial: What it means. Garett Rogers: Google’s OpenSocial platform is great! Techmeme.
Dion Hinchcliffe: Significant workplace inroads for Enterprise 2.0?
CIO Sessions: BT’s JP Rangaswami.
George Ou: HD DVD price war begins at $198, $170 on Black Friday. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Blu-ray BD+ copy protection defeated?
Photos: Rolling with a three-wheeler (right).
Larry Dignan: Ellison puts NetSuite shares in ‘lockbox.’
David Berlind: More evidence of why Microsoft, AOL, Google, and Yahoo must work together on spam.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft decouples SharePoint Services from Windows Server 2008. Microsoft talks SOA futures but not dates. Microsoft upgrades adCenter; kicks off ad-analytics beta.
WSJ: Google in talks with Verizon, Sprint
Reuters: Cerberus pulls ACS deal.
Microsoft: Xbox 360 IPTV still coming–eventually.
Ad Age: Privacy groups propose do not track list.
Ryan Naraine: Researchers pooh-pooh Mac OS X Leopard security. David Berlind: Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity (and obsoletion) of cash. David Morgen
stern: Leopard’s installer: The case of the disappearing volumes. Apple: 2 million copies of Leopard sold. Jason O’Grady: 5 apps I can’t live without in Leopard.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Time Machine - Part II: Going back in time with Time Machine. Gallery (right).
Paula Rooney: Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile market.
Dana Blankenhorn: Fred Trotter’s HealthVault expose. A second open source competitor in health IT.
VentureBeat: Cookie tracking: How Facebook could be worth $100 billion?
Garett Rogers: Third-party themes for iGoogle coming soon?
Larry Dignan: The Industry Standard: It’s coming back. Content M&A: Credit crunch crimps landscape. The Future of Business Media: I’m toast; Web ad ROI.
Russell Shaw: Live Blogging Von Fall 2007: Triple-play service providers reflect on business models. Sending out an SOS to BlackBerry SMS: messages bottled. Intel mobile CTO: Menlow platform to improve mobile device performance.
BBC: PC stripper helps spam to spread.
Trouble on horizon for ‘white-box’ PC makers. 
Gallery (right).
David Berlind: The Carr-to-Rangaswami connection: Time to bleep the CIO?
New York Magazine: Web Bubble 2.0.
Best Buy targets online video sharing.
HP launches key-management appliance.
Restated results cut Dell income by $92 million.
Intel, Microsoft sell 150,000 laptops to Libya.
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