December 18th, 2007
News to know: Apple patches; Windows Mobile 7, 8; Adobe; Green tech
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and Safari
David Morgenstern: Are Mac users more honest than Windows users? Treating Leopard’s Finder not-fully-loading bug
WSJ: Apple meets with DoCoMo, Softbank over iPhone in Japan.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft outlines what’s coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8
As Microsoft knows, there’s more than one way to disrupt a market
Larry Dignan: Adobe rides Creative Suite 3 wave; Profits shine. MacWorld rumblings: Expect a 11- to 13-inch screen on Apple ultra-portable. Techmeme.
Electronista: Leopard launch Apple’s best yet.
Microsoft security update derails IE
Jason O’Grady: QuickBooks for Mac deletes Desktop folder (update 2)
VentureBeat: Digg for sale ($300 million).
Review: Dell XPS M1530 (Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz, 160GB HDD, 2GB RAM)
David Berlind: Google’s GMail product manager: ‘User data should never be held hostage’. Garett Rogers: GOOG-411 isn’t what you think
Data-center worker sabotages Calif. power grid
Marc Wagner: Advocacy in Education IT Christopher Dawson: New SSD from Intel points to serious UMPC expansion
George Ou: How LCD makers lie to you about viewing angles
Paul Saffo: The Seer of Silicon Valley
PC World: The biggest tech disappointments in 2007.
Green Tech:
- Wave power to go commercial in California
- Burning Man backs solar power project for Nevada towns
- Dan Farber: Green IT becoming more fashionable
- Heather Clancy: Canon: Supporting green tech innovation
- Harry Fuller: Biofuel massacre: ethanol’s zone of death
Matthew Miller: Auto rotate your display and track your steps on the Nokia N96. Verizon Wireless announces the Treo 755p device
Will this LG device be next in the T-Mobile Shadow lineup?
Gizmodo: Google Android hardware in the wild.
FireWire speeds set to quadruple
Larry Dignan: Gartner puts phishing tab at $3.2 billion
Joe McKendrick: Nine places where SOA is making a difference, right now
Dennis Howlett: Vendor relationship management: viable or theory?
WSJ: What the Internet knows about you.
NYT Bits: The depth of eBay’s problems 1.
Dana Blankenhorn: Can open source take down Ribbit? Microsoft fate draws strong open source reaction
Hobbs shows risks and rewards of predictive health
The evolution of a dino-bot. 
Photos: The birthplace of Pleo (right).
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Two gaming dead ends of 2007
Larry Dignan: WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems
Russell Shaw: Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11 Nice effort, VoSKY, but just the name “Skype” is a no-deploy zone for enterprise IT
Janice Chen: Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10 is a great DSLR for newbies, but at a price
This revolution will be text messaged
Ryan Stewart: My rich Internet application predictions for 2007. How did I do?
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