December 19th, 2007
News to know: Microsoft predictions; XO en route; IBM; Palm
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: What’s on Microsoft’s age
nda for 2008? Mary Jo’s top 10 at right. Guess prediction 10.
Dan Farber: ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us
ZoneAlarm toolbar bundle raises a ruckus
George Ou: Capital One customers experience data corruption
Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007
David Morgenstern: FileMaker fixes serious Leopard ‘compatibility issues’ for older versions
Larry Dignan: Your XO laptop is about to land
IBM’s powwow:
- Notebook: IBM’s Linux desktop installs; Notes evolution; Data center stats
- IBM cooks up internal virtual world for confidentiality, security
- IBM demos ‘On Demand Workplace’; Will Web 2.0 deliver productivity gains?
Chris Matyszczyk: Will co-habitation be a new business for Facebook? Mark Cuban: My new Facebook strategy
Paul Allen applies to bid in U.S. wireless auction
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Give your PC the gift of security
Michael Krigsman: Colorado decertifies voting machines
Techmeme: RIP Web 2.0 office suites?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: On the test bench - AMD ‘Spider’ Phenom 9600-based system
Greening your office for the new year
Dennis Howlett: I’m a weirdo, I live in The Cloud Ryan Stewart: Why build desktop applications? Because no one has heard of your browser application
Russell Shaw: How about using an endoscopic webcam with Skype?
News.com: TorrentSpy loses copyright lawsuit
eWeek: Beware IE cache on public terminal
Michael Krigsman: Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz on CIO / CTO differences
Garett Rogers: Google may have finally figured out what to do with Google Apps
Kara Swisher: Here comes another bubble
Roland Piquepaille: Commercial brain computer systems are coming
Nintendo sees strong DS sales, frown
s on Wii bundles
Photos: Science museum begins exhibit installations (right).
Dana Blankenhorn: For 2008 expect more Linux applications
Desktop Linux most popular topic of 2007
Christopher Dawson: Great tutorial on using forms with PHP
Paula Rooney: SugarCRM 5 sweetens the deal with on-demand service, AJAX e-mail
Google: New advanced news search. Video site maps.
Matthew Miller: HanDBase 4.0 mobile database application released with major updates
Joe McKendrick: Five great unsolved mysteries of SOA
Heather Clancy: More companies painting their IT green-er How much power should a server at rest consume?
Ryan Stewart: Microsoft Tafiti opens the source code door
Russell Shaw: Google Android apps surface: cool but I need to see more
AP: Facebook settles text messaging suit.
Sony Reader felled by the classics
Intel: Fewer European start-ups getting funded
NPD: Apple launch of Leopard system its best ever
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