November 13th, 2007

News to know: OpenWorld; IBM Roadrunner; XO support; Android SDK

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 1:41 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., TomTom, Microsoft Zune, SDK, Computerworld, Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

Notable headlines:

IBM’s Roadrunner to smash supercomputing marks.

Dan Farber: Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all. Oracle virtualization 3x better than the competition? At Oracle OpenWorld, the fruits of ‘acquired innovation.’ Video: Larry Ellison reflects on 30 years. Joshua Greenbaum: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Oracle Style. Phil Wainwright: Oracle stair-steps to on-demand

HP’s Mark Hurd: More content is fantastic for us

Techmeme: Massive outage at Rackspace Dallas datacenter.

Microsoft to offer standalone hypervisor.

Richard Koman: XO laptop support nonexistent. Larry Dignan: Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may sting.

Christopher Dawson: Saying goodbye to the Classmates.

Adobe names Narayen CEO.

From Danger’s realm come Android’s makers. Gallery (right).

Larry Dignan: Google’s Open Handset Alliance releases Android SDK. Dana Blankenhorn: Google must demand open spectrum. Ed Burnette: Google taps Java VM for Android gPhone SDK. Garett Rogers: Google launches Android SDK and $10 million contest. Techmeme.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Mozilla to make Firefox memory issues a priority

David Morgenstern: Quality time in Panther before Leopard Jason O’Grady: Google’s iPhone killer?

Robin Harris: How to really erase a lot of hard drives.

Papers forge real estate deal with Zillow

Larry Dignan: I’ve seen the future and the Zune becomes a hit. Mary Jo Foley: Five lessons the rest of Microsoft can learn from Zune. Zune review. Matthew Miller: 12 videos that detail everything you want to know about the Zune 2 release. Techmeme.

Computerworld’s 21st Annual Salary Survey.

Web spending hits new record in third quarter.

BusinessWeek: E-Trade’s meltdown.

Mary Jo Foley: One more test build to go for SQL Server 2008. Microsoft to ship Windows Server 2008, over time, in eight flavors. About those Windows 7 features.

Yahoo sets program to boost distributed computing. TomTom unveils traffic information service.

Dana Blankenhorn: Is the VA going proprietary? Feds to pay more if you have automated records.

Roland Piquepaille: ADSL at 250 megabits per second?

Yihong-Ding: Implicit Web: a brief introduction.

SAP: Little exposure to weak U.S. finance sector.

Cisco boosts bandwidth with ‘virtualized’ switches.

Photos: Surviving a Humvee rollover (right).

Ed Burnette: SC07 Day 1: Parallel computing 101.

IBM takes out Cognos for $5 billion.

Russell Shaw: The five things cell companies need to do to make you like them.

CNN: Buy one laptop, give one program launches.