January 25th, 2008
News to know: Vista SP1; Microsoft earnings; MacBook specs; VOIP
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1
Larry Dignan: Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook
- Jeff Jones (err Microsoft): Vista more secure than everything
- Is Microsoft tinkering with Live Search results?
David Morgenstern: MacBook Air: Observations on its technical note. Engadget: MacBook Air slowest Apple on the block
Phil Wainewright: Taking the reins and tending the cows at WebEx
Joe McKendrick: SOA + Web 2.0 = higher business IQ
Paul Miller: Getting enveloped by the potential of Cloud computing
Wireless auction opens with $2.4 billion bid total
Photos: Cracking open the iBook G3 (right)
Dana Blankenhorn: Hacking and the modern hospital
Proprietary take-over of open source a fairy tale
Paula Rooney: Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?
Heather Clancy: Attention IT managers: Two green PCs from HP that won’t get you laughed out of the office
Janice Chen: The best of five new digital cameras from Canon: The Canon Rebel XSi
George Ou: Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display
Earnings roundup:
- AT&T: Wireless strong; U-Verse buildout continues; Outlook in tact
- TheStreet.com: Juniper blows past estimates
- AP: Sun beats estimates
- Nokia profits jump, market share at 40 percent
- Sybase: The next big target for acquisition?
Roland Piquepaille: Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips? Rumor mill: AMD and IBM could get cozy
DomainToolsBlog: Google to kill domain tasting
Russell Shaw: VoIP Traffic Manager- a turnkey solution for hosted VoIP management
- PhoneFusion One-a cool product you’ve never heard of (until now)
- These seven steps will “jailbreak” a 1.13-powered iPhone
Richard Stiennon: Beware the knowledgable insider. Societe Generale shows us why. Cyber confusion. What is the airforce talking about? George Ou: Don’t assume WPA2 is more secure than WPA
Picture this: Insignia digital picture frames may carry virus
Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business models Symantec warns of router compromise
Five reasons not to fear a $200 Linux PC
Dan Farber: Social networks: The new pulse of the Internet
Paul Miller: Demonstrating the value of SPARQL to the Semantic Web
Netflix plans streaming video service for Mac
News.com: Vudu drops price to fend off Apple TV
TechCrunch: Battelle turns down $100 million offer for FM Publishing
Joshua Greenbaum: Salesforce.com as an economic barometer
Images: Isaiah architecture up close (right)
Russell Shaw: Why forcing ISPs to crack down on music copyright infringers’ is a bad idea
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: A third of all iPhones sold ended up unlocked
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