January 18th, 2008
News to know: Microsoft flaw; AMD; IBM; Cloud computing
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Don’t dawdle on Microsoft latest batch of patches
AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter
Dan Farber: Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud. Phil Wainewright: Enterprise SaaS and the cloud
InSTEDD applies Web 2.0 to help save lives
Ryan Stewart: Smallworld: The coolest Flex application I’ve ever seen
Garett Rogers: iGoogle theme API released
BTL podcast: Macbook Air, BEA, MySQL, SAP and more….
David Morgenstern: Mouse inventor sighted at Macworld Expo.
Dragon speech recognition comes to the Mac
Photos: Messenger reveals a new side of Mercury
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there’s an ‘open’ in OOXML Another Microsoft manager jumps from the Live Search ship.
Jason O’Grady: What is the demographic for the MacBook Air?
TechCrunch: Blogger suffers major outage
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Weird ATi Catalyst 8.1 bug
California task force urges broadband bonds
Dennis Howlett: Dell XPS or MacBook Air: the shock of your life
Russell Shaw: Yes, the MacBook Air is light. But so what-Dell XPS is a better deal on price
Christopher Dawson: To standardize or not to standardize
Josh Taylor: Is your broadband bill about to go up? Russell Shaw: To fight Time Warner Cable’s download pricing plans, we need a bit of “Nanny State”
Should AT&T police the Internet?
Slate: Has AT&T lost its mind?
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source health care gets its day
Matthew Miller: HP iPAQ 210 PDA starts shipping for US$449
Top 10 mistakes when implementing SOA projects
Gizmodo: Change your systems settings and watch iTunes rentals forever
Poll: Businesses in U.S. warm to Vista
ArsTechnica: Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court
Larry Dignan: Yahoo puts its heft behind OpenID 2.0 OpenID 2.0 and Yahoo: The security angle. Techmeme
Joshua Greenbaum: M&A Day: Winners 
and Losers
Dana Blankenhorn: What do the database deals mean?
Photos: Library of Congress uploads to Flickr
Dana Gardner: IBM and Kapow on how enterprises exploit application mashups and lightweight data access
Joe McKendrick: Could uncertain times be a boon for SOA?
Engadget: Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority
Heather Clancy: TerraPass targets businesses with latest offset program
U.K. seeks ways to stop militant grooming on Web
Doing philanthropy the Google way
Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate
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