January 30th, 2008
News to know: Yahoo; Microsoft; Windows worm hole; Demo 08
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Vista and Windows Server 2008–an unbreakable couple? Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers
Larry Dignan: Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees ‘headwinds’; Restructuring in Feb. Techmeme
Ed Bott: Windows 7 = Vista Release 2
Janice Chen: What happens at PMA…
Robin Harris: Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it’s your turn!
George Ou: Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for Mongolians
Garett Rogers: Google extends deadline for the Android Development Contest
Dan Farber: Demo 08: Web apps for mere mortals
Sun Blackbox gets new name and customers
Working Webware: Ning, king of custom social networks?
Ryan Stewart: SproutBuilder - Using a Flex Application to Create Flash Content. Gallery (right)
David Morgenstern: Keep your MagSafe power plug clean
Jason O’Grady: Apple updates iWork ‘08
It pays to wait before jailbreaking
Computerworld: Data breaches come in fours
Dennis Howlett: Seesmic’s next steps
Silicon Alley Insider: Google’s newspaper ads: Big hopes for small bar codes.
Bits: Slashdot’s founder questions crowd’s wisdom
Dana Blankenhorn: OpenOffice still two trains running on one line.
Is Trend Micro-Barracuda case a hair on fire moment?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!
VMware takes an unjustified hammering
PC OEMs might no longer be able to rely on games to sell high end systems
U2 manager takes Internet providers to task. 
Photos: Cracking open the PlayStation 2
Roland Piquepaille: Identifying a face from a single picture
Cisco CEO sees network upgrades lasting a decade
Computerworld: Are you obsolete?
Paula Rooney: Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
Dan Kusnetzky: Sun xVM - Foundation for a dynamic datacenter?
Russell Shaw: Hosted Microsoft OCS with PC-to-PC voice announced
Larry Dignan: Sprint, Clearwire and WiMax: Engagement back on?
Dennis Howlett: On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similarities
Steve O’Hear: Prologue = Twitter meets Basecamp
Heather Clancy: The fix is in: Management software concern finds converts for its power control module
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