February 5th, 2008
News to know: Windows Server 2008; MySpace developers; Zimbra
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: What will run on Windows Server 2008–and when
- No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March
- Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are good to go
- Ballmer outlines Microsoft’s eight long-term growth bets
- Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu
- George Ou: Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM
- Christopher Dawson: Will Vista SP1 finally make the upgrade worth it?
Larry Dignan: MySpace launches developer network
Dan Farber: Zimbra adds offline access, instant messaging
Paula Rooney: Torvalds slams patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun, virtualization craze. Dana Blankenhorn: Linus dismisses Microsoft patent threat. A call for open source values in health care
IBM does OEM deal with Avada on its open source Websphere edition
Photos: Aiming for breakthroughs at IBM’s Almaden (right)
George Ou: ISSCC 2008: Details on Intel Silverthorne
David Morgenstern: Remembering Apple’s fizzled buyout
Janice Chen: Eye-Fi announces partnerships and software update
Dion Hinchcliffe: openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
Christopher Dawson: Followup on the GIMP on thin clients
Jason O’Grady: MacBook Air Diary–Day 5: Battery observations. The packaging
Larry Dignan: Jerry Yang to employees: We’re looking at other options. Ballmer: Yahoo deal would provide counterweight to Google. A VC: How Yahoo can get out of the Microsoft bear hug
Protecting databases from the inside
Larry Dignan: So long ActiveX. Will I miss you?
Richard Stiennon: Birth of IPv6
Roland Piquepaille: A scientific Oscar goes to Stanford
Dennis Howlett: SocGen: it’s worse, they knew.
Joe McKendrick: Analyst: Four SOA consulting red flags that spell trouble
ReadWriteWeb: Is Google’s social graph API a creeping privacy violation?
Ryan Stewart: New version of the eBay desktop released Singularity, the first large-scale online web conference is unveiled
LiMo chief talks rivals, Nokia, and mobile Linux
Larry Dignan: Facebook image uploader: The flaws continue. Steve O’Hear: MySpace U-turn: YouTube contributed to our success
Photos: Tesla Roadster ready to hit the streets
News.com: Microsoft wants people to bring Surface home sooner
Richard Koman: Is Obama campaign a model for the future? On Super Tuesday, campaigns focus on the net
The Democratic Party’s dangerous experiment
Dana Gardner: Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
Russell Shaw: Collaboration-over-Skype tool now officially certified. Here’s the SECRET number for Comcast’s National Support Desk: It’s 1-888…
Harry Fuller: Beyond the hype: what’s truly green and what’s just marketing? Heather Clancy: Warning: This post for ultra-techie green techies
Dutch unveil robot to fill car gas tank
Ericsson to provide mobile broadband to Lenovo
The legislation behind a national ID
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