November 2nd, 2007
News to know: OpenSocial unleashed; T-Mobile Shadow; Cracking open a digital camera
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: Google’s OpenSocial APIs pick up steam–MySpace and Bebo. Google to open Orkut OpenSocial developer sandbox tonight.
Steve O’Hear: Official: MySpace joins Google’s “OpenSocial” platform. Techmeme. Dana Blankenhorn: What is social networking’s value add? Is Facebook the next Netscape?
David Berlind: Full audio of MySpace/Google/Flixster news conference; Also, how is identity handled? Video demo: Flixster built-into a MySpace profile via Google’s OpenSocial framework. The OpenSocial Business Model: Will the biggest social containers win? Google’s CEO says no.
Dennis Howlett: OpenSocial - a first enterprise take.
Michael Krigsman: The hidden OpenSocial press conference (future of information sharing).
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile Shadow first impressions; HTC and Microsoft reveal a refreshing UI. Gallery (right).
Heather Clancy: Data center operator earns veritable green-tech gold star.
Russell Shaw: Linksys has some exciting plans. New VoIP services dev platform seeks to accelerate carrier time to market.
Read/Write Web: New York Times Adds Techmeme-like Feature to Tech Section.
Ryan Naraine: Mac Attack: Porn video lures dropping DNS-changer Trojan.
Photos: Cracking open a digital camera.
Mandriva: An open letter to Steve Ballmer. Larry Dignan: If you’re going to bash Steve Ballmer, don’t hold back on the ammo. Techmeme.
AP: CA 2Q Profit Rises on Software Contracts. Reuters: Electronic Arts reports loss. Verisign third-quarter profit up 24 percent.
Chris Soghoian: A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google. Dan Farber: Probing the Google-Firefox relationship.
Knowledge@Wharton: Software’s Future: Melding the Web and the Desktop.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Audio glitching - Common under Vista, not so bad under other OSes. TomTom ONE 3rd Edition - First thoughts.
Linux: Well, didja stick it to the man?
Larry Dignan: Can Sprint be saved? Sprint profit, revenue fall on subscriber losses.
Yahoo Messenger spam becomes insufferable.
David Morgenstern: New Apple support docs target Leopard client & server, Boot Camp. Jason O’Grady: Apple speed-bumps MacBook Pros to 2.6GHz; 5400RPM drives. Apple speed-bumps MacBooks to Santa Rosa (updated). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Leopard suffers the post release blues.
Robin Harris: Regular Mac users: wait for v10.5.1 to upgrade.
VMware virtualization software eyes China.
Olympics ticket system crashes.
Photos: Children of the corn maze (right).
Dana Blankenhorn: Can Google and Wal-Mart break the Microsoft desktop monopoly? Will Microsoft follow European open source edict worldwide? Misys going open source through Eclipse
Matthew Miller: AT&T’s Motorola Q Global reports 9 hour talk and 30 day standby times.
Verizon shows off its future tech.
George Ou: $99 Toshiba HD DVD player on Friday at Wal-Mart?
Wi-LAN files infringement suit against 22 firms.
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