November 1st, 2007
News to know: IBM's fear free enterprise; Everex Google PC; Vista security
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: Everex delivers $198 err $199 Google-friendly PC.
IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend.
Ed Bott: One year later, Vista really is more secure.
AP: Cisco Announces $16B China Expansion
Ryan Naraine: Macrovision patches patch-delivery tool, leaves DRM zero-day wide open.
Dennis Howlett: Why should investors dictate at BEA?
Dan Farber: Yahoo on OpenSocial: Socialization standards are good for all. Who will get on board Google’s OpenSocial train? OpenSocial: Developers speak out. OpenSocial opens new can of worms. Techmeme.
Photos: Clean-tech start-ups swing for the fences (right).
David Berlind: Connect the Google dots: In war on spam, GMail’s IMAP support hints at ‘auto-unsubscribe’ standard.
Dana Blankenhorn: Wordpress all grown up, wins best CMS. Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?
Paula Rooney: Former Red Hat exec leaves Zmanda after short stint, brain drain at Red Hat continues.
Robin Harris: Are Chinese disk drives flaky?
Heather Clancy: IBM silicon rejects reborn in solar panels.
Michael Krigsman: Google FeedBurner is down: SaaS isn’t mission-critical ready.
Roland Piquepaille: Repelling bullets with nanotube armors.
Photos: Damage throws wrench into spacewalk (right).
Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs holes in Xcode. David Morgenstern: Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X Leopard. Jason O’Grady: Apple’s boogeyman: Google phone.
TidBits: Apple to allow Leopard virtualization.
Christopher Dawson: Linux Classmate update. Dead hardware I can sink my teeth into.
Samsung buys Israeli chip design firm.
Matthew Miller: The Samsung i780 may be the first 320×320 Windows Mobile touch-screen device. The Palm Centro; at $99.99 it really isn’t a tough choice. Larry Dignan: How
the iPhone changed Verizon Wireless.
Images: Comet bursts into view (right).
Joe McKendrick: Are ‘Guerrilla SOA’ and Web 2.0 one in the same?
George Ou: Microsoft Unified Communications shuns G.722 wideband interoperability.
Larry Dignan: Dell’s consumer PC disaster.
Computerworld: What went wrong with the mobile Web?
Make Cisco $1 billion and win a job.
Symantec: Virtualization can ease data center woes.
Intel’s Montvale Itanium chip arrives.
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