January 7th, 2008
News to know: CES; Gates' curtain call; Office 2003 and old file types; Apple
Notable headlines:
CES coverage:
- Ryan Stewart: Silverlight to power the online video portal for the 2008 Olympics
- Gates: Curtain call for crystal ball. Mary Jo Foley: Gates’ last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures. Dan Farber: Gates gives CES keynote swan song–no fireworks
- Matthew Miller: CES: Mobile gadgets at Digital Experience!
- Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail
- Dan Farber: CES: 1.8 million square feet of gadgets
- On the road to CES
- Janice Chen: Headed to CES? Don’t pack your extra Li-Ion batteries!
- All CNET CES coverage
- Christopher Dawson: More innovation in the UMPC category headed our way
- Robin Harris: Blu-ray vs HD DVD: final bonus round
- Josh Taylor: Hey Warner Brothers – You couldn’t have made your Blu-ray decision in November? CES: Will 2008 finally be the year of the SlingCatcher?
- Dave Greenfield: Open Source Cars and More
- Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup #120, 2007 favorites and gearing up for CES 2008
- Mary Jo Foley: CES: New applications to surface for Microsoft Surface
- Techmeme: New Sharp TVs; Toshiba on HD-DVD; Samsung’s TVs
- Samsung expands UMPC line
David Morgenstern: Looking back: The PC assault on Apple’s pro markets
Sure bet for 2008: More Apple lawsuits Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Latest antitrust lawsuit targeting Apple’s weak spots
The New Yorker: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft restores Of
fice 2003 users’ access to old file types. Report: Windows Mobile 7 to incorporate touch, gesture recognition.
Microsoft softens limits on its Windows Web Server. Microsoft adds a new subscription licensing plan for SMBs
Photos: New Segways–leaner and meaner
Richard Koman: Obama turns Facebook fans into delegates
George Ou: Ruckus wireless LAN security method solves usability versus security dilemma
Larry Dignan: LiMo: New members added; First release on deck; Is the future about mobile middleware?
Napster moves to MP3-only music download format
New York Times: Investors seek takeover of CNET
TechCrunch: Wikia Search is a complete letdown.
Christopher Dawson: Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle
Gallery (right): Favorite views of Saturn
Garett Rogers: Magellan to provide local listings from Google
Android contest officially open - Individuals happy, teams worried
Matthew Miller: Vodafone 2008 roadmap may include first Palm smartphone with WiFi, two Nokias, two BlackBerry devices, and two HP devices
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Office 2003 SP3 and CorelDraw .CDR files
Russell Shaw: Sprint customer: Dad on our calling plan just died. Sprint: prove it
Phil Fersht: Maintaining a 25% pro
fit margin in this crazy world of globalization. Gallery: Audi’s plant in India.
Roland Piquepaille: 3-D pictures of a cancer-promoting enzyme
A crystal as beautiful as a diamond
Larry Dignan: OLPC responds to Intel breakup
Play the Sears privacy game (and get your neighbor’s purchase history)
Are so-called anywhere applications getting somewhere?
The next hacker frontier: Social networking sites
Michael Krigsman: Boeing 787 at risk of in-flight hacking. Twitter’s true magic
Russell Shaw: Thing is, Yahoo!, you harvested and used my Visa number without my permission
New Mac chip in pipeline could turn iPhone into a mini MacBook
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