November 7th, 2007
News to know: Facebook Ad(vertorial)s; Microsoft CIO booted; Salesforce.com data loss
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott is out. Report: StrongBox, Component Delivery Platform to debut in Windows 7. New Microsoft datacenters on tap for Chicago, Dublin. Microsoft’s Windows Live finally starting to come into its own.
Larry Dignan: Facebook launches its ad platform; Coca Cola as friend? Gallery (right). Rough Type: The social graft. Dan Farber: Facebook Ads: Monetizing the social graph and social graft. Techmeme.
Dan Farber: Surprise–OpenSocial is alpha code.
SecurityFix: Salesforce.com Acknowledges Data Loss. The Salesforce.com letter. David Berlind: Phishing-based breach of salesforce.com customer data is more evidence of industry’s need to act on spam. Now.
Ed Bott: Vista Hands On #19: Get one-click access to Vista network properties.
Ryan Naraine: Exploit posted for Viewpoint Media Player flaw. TippingPoint flags another ‘high risk’ Adobe vulnerability.
Garett Rogers: Google Reader now very functional on iPhone.
Michael Krigsman: Serious IT governance issues at UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Dan Farber: Is Ballmer signaling a Yahoo deal? Defragging Enterprise 2.0.
David Morgenstern: Some new iMacs stuck at Leopard’s login.
Red Ferret Journal: Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge.
News.com: Yahoo executives grilled by Congress over China policies: Live-blogging.
Computerworld: About 165,000 Web sites knocked offline by NaviSite outage.
David Berlind: Dell: The M2300 may look like a subnotebook, but it’s certifiably a ‘workstation.’
Roland Piquepaille: Automating chip debugging.
Robin Harris: Build a SuperZune!
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product. Gallery (right).
Larry Dignan: Another Apple Tablet PC rumor: Do you buy it? OLPC’s XO Laptop hits mass production.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Leopard, Vista: More alike than you might think. Mary Jo Foley: It’s payback time: If the Vista team could write ad copy. Poll of the Day - Vista vs. Leopard.
Images: NASA builds Orion mockup.
George Ou: A rational debate on Comcast traffic management.
Dana Blankenhorn: Can Monster win online health wars with Healthcare.com?
Lenovo unveils its first addition to Think PCs.
Symbian shipments up 56 percent, sales up 30 percent.
Book excerpt: ‘The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Second Life‘
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