December 11th, 2007
News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme.
VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier?
David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard’s iSCSI support
News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
David Berlind: Office Live Workspace narrows Google gap. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace: What it is and isn’t. New ‘Astoria’ test build released; final set for mid-2008.
Joe McKendrick: Analyst: Microsoft Oslo part of ‘tectonic shift’ to business design
Ryan Naraine: What’s the story with these security holes? Skype patches high-risk flaw, says sorry for not telling us.
Threat Level: Canadian ISP splices itself into Google home page.
Images: Happy 60th birthday transistor (right).
Dana Gardner: Red Hat unveils JBoss Developer Studio. Federated ESBs come to fore as natural outcome of guerrilla SOA practices.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Wii vs. iPhone - Which was the biggest hit of 2007? Linux, cheap PCs and the effect this will have on Microsoft.
Garett Rogers: Google shows real-time solar power statistics. Richard Koman: Google, CDT call for more searchable government
Larry Dignan: EDS lands $715 million outsourcing pact. Will China manufacturing costs be a tech overhang? NetSuite starts its IPO auction; broadcasts roadshow. HP thinks big about printing; Acquires NUR Macroprinters
ReadWriteWeb: YouTube ad partner program opens to all. MediaWeek: Ad buyers forgive Facebook.
David Berlind: HD displays--720p vs. 1080i vs. 1080p. Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.
Jason O’Grady: Apple’s secret weapon: Apple TV 2.0. Dan Kusnetzky: Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X.
AT&T to buy core routers from Cisco.
Ryan Stewart: Scrapblog gets venture capital from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures
George Ou: Can enterprise software be sexy?
Paul Murphy: Measuring green opportunities
AP: Texas Instruments updates outlook.
Matthew Miller: QuickOffice Premier 4.5 turns S60 device into a multimedia computer. Gallery (right). Try out the latest and greatest phones virtually with TryPhone
Microsoft starts offering ads on MSN Mobile
Russell Shaw: MSN Mobile to carry ads: I don’t like the idea a bit; do you? Four reasons why: Skype is minor bandwidth hog compared to torrents and file-hosters
Christopher Dawson: How do I make a website?
Michael Krigsman: Denial and the coming “data meltdown”
The Engadget interview: Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
Dennis Howlett: LeWeb3: innovation in Paris
Roland Piquepaille: Looking inside our skin
Dana Blankenhorn: Social networking and the open business revolution. The Corporatenet will be a big 2008 trend. Who will mandate electronic health records?
Microsoft does ad deal with CNBC
Toshiba to join solid-state drive niche
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