November 14th, 2007
News to know: Supercomputer programming; Oracle Fusion; Patch day; Inbox 2.0
Notable headlines:
Ed Burnette: SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms. SiCortex wins Dev Connection “Sexiest in show” award. 
Emerging hardware to force drastic changes in programming. George Ou: IBM’s liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer. Gallery (right).
Dan Farber: Oracle offers a peek at social apps and Fusion.
Bits: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network. Dan Farber: The new old social network: Directory services and widgets.
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft patches URI handling, DNS spoofing flaws. WSUS errors could disrupt Microsoft patch deployments.
DNS-changing Trojan opens Mac OS X floodgates. Microsoft exec calls XP hack ‘frightening’.
Paul Murphy: National Security and the PC
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Malware found on new hard drives
EU extends review of Google/DoubleClick merger. EU statement. EU proposes new powers to split up telephone companies.
Mary Jo Foley: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008.
Michael Krigsman: Oracle’s self-reported project success/failure statistics
Dan Farber: Intel CEO Paul Otellini woos the Oracle crowd.
Oracle’s ultimate grand Fusion.
Mary Jo Foley: Beyond digital ink: Where Microsoft wants to take data input tomorrow. DeskScapes 2.0: Animated wallpapers no longer just for the Vista elite.
ReadWriteWeb: Hyped New Platforms: Explaining the Difference Between One and the Other.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My Mac mini experience - Thoughts on the Mac mini. David Morgenstern: Leopard: Trying to love Help Viewer’s new fascist behavior. Jason O’Grady: MacBook nano rumors swirl (again).
Christopher Dawson: E-books galore…for free!
Dan Kusnetzky: HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager software.
Dana Blankenhorn: Google playing games with open source? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Wal-Mart $200 Linux PC–sold out.
AP: WSJ.com to be free.
Larry Dignan: Rackspace’s really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile.
Computerworld: China Mobile in talks to sell iPhone.
Matthew Miller: Run the Palm OS on your Nokia Internet Tablet.
Dana Blankenhorn: Best of breed now mean
s open source. Larry Dignan: Best of breed: No need for an obit.
Techmeme: Bebo launches ‘Open Media‘
Ryan Stewart: Ooyala soft launches Backlot, a video analytics and management tool. Gallery: Ooyala: Backlot (right).
Yahoo expands mobile carrier deals across Asia. Report: Yahoo settles with jailed Chinese journalists.
Bruce Chizen on past and prospects.
Russell Shaw: Skype WiFi outage explained: server-host network difficulties. Should students be allowed to tape and post videos of their teachers?
AP: Marvel, other comics go online.
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
For daily updates, follow Larry on Twitter.
Subscribe to Between the Lines via Email alerts or RSS.
