December 24th, 2007
News to know: Mozilla Weave, LCD inflation, Santa tracker, predictions, more
Notable headlines:
George Ou: How LCD makers inflate their contrast ratio score
Robin Harris: Mac OS X Leopard still not ready for prime time
Larry Dignan: Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You’d be surprised
Marc Andreessen: When non-technologists write about technology
Dan Farber: Mozilla floats Weave as Web platform
Mozilla Labs: Mozilla introduces Weave
Om Malik: A look back at a very Google 2007
David Berlind’s latest videos:
- With Office Live Workspace in play, Microsoft’s Web-competitors (Google, WebEx, Zoho) speak
- Demo: ClusterSeven’s Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager tightly monitors spreadsheet integrity
- Google Apps ‘founder’ Rajen Sheth: We dialog with users through new code
TechCrunch: Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7
Russell Shaw: BlackBerrys with slide-out keyboard, swivel keypads reported on way
TheRoyalChannel: YouTube meets the Queen of England
Michael Krigsman: Whole Foods’ perfect response to IT failure
Wired: Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008 [startup is broadly defined]
Mashable: The Dumbest Startups of 2007
Lifehack: 11 Top New Web Apps of 2007
ReadWriteWeb: 2008 Web Predictions
Matthew Miller: Nokia N95 8GB NAM and N82 8GB revealed by Nokia
Heather Clancy: Surf’s up for PG&E and Finavera
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics
Roland Piquepaille: CAD software leads to faster chips
Tim O’Reilly: Social Network Signature for Entity Resolution
Harry Fuller: China gets onto the fast track with trains
Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
