February 1st, 2008
News to know: Microsoft and open source; Google; Motorola, PMA 2008
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words
Dana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power?
Larry Dignan: Google’s quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG’s troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation. Techmeme
Janice Chen: On the show floor at PMA 2008: Sony shows off high-end DSLR prototype
On the show floor at PMA 2008: A quick look at the tiny Kodak Z1012 IS megazoom
Boomtown: Chatty Zuckerberg reveals Facebook’s finances
David Morgenstern: Could the MacBook Air’s trackpad 
support pen input? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple doesn’t do loss leaders. John Carroll: Why Apple TV is important to Apple.
Jason O’Grady: Has iPhone met its match with nuvifone? (updated 10x)
Photos: Garvin’s Nuviphone picks a fight with iPhone (right)
BTL podcast: Demo 08, Yahoo woes, Amazon’s moves and more…
Robin Harris: Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
Zap to do three-wheeled car in 2009
Computerworld: The LAN turns 30; Will it reach 40?
Larry Dignan: Oracle on the psychology of patching. Richard Koman: Fortify offers source code analysis to states. Joe McKendrick: Which will kill SOA fastest: no money or no skills?
Ed Burnette: TiVo judgment is fascinating, yet frightening
Harry Fuller: Green tech business–how hot is it? Gates spending lots of green on green revolution Heather Clancy: From carbonation containers to inkjet cartridges: HP’s new approach
Dan Farber: Gartner’s top 10 predictions on
IT futures
The state of IT risk management
Gallery: Sprout Builder (right)
Russell Shaw: AT&T BlackBerry outages reported Midwest, western Pennsylvania outages on AT&T EDGE network. BlackBerry Patent app proposes improvements for meeting invite emails from BlackBerry calendar. BlackBerry Patent app describes wireless changing of theme screens
Microsoft Patent App would add “trust system” to some cut-and-paste operations
Dennis Howlett: SAP’s alternative Twitter project. Why 
Twitter’s failing. Twitter blog: We had a rough night. Dave Greenfield: Does Web 2.0 Need IT?
Photos: Cracking open the Iomega Zip drive
Garett Rogers: Google wins 700mhz FCC auction
Chris Matyszczyk: Ohmigod! Social networkers just can’t take it any more!
Steve O’Hear: OpenSocial should be renamed “OpenGadgets”
Torvalds: Linux ready to go green
Roland Piquepaille: Fly the green skies at Mach 5
Electronic Arts lowers outlook, shares fall
Dana Blankenhorn: Virtual doctors still a long way off
Middle East Internet outage: Do you have backups for your offshore ops? How resilient are the Internet pipes?
TechCrunch: Yahoo to acquire Maven
Amazon.com: Will you recognize it in 10 years? Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues
Sprint sees substantial impairment charge
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