February 8th, 2008
News to know: Vista SP1 performance; Patch day preview; Google
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley:
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista SP1 - The promised performance gains are there
- Vista SP1–Day 1
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery
- George Ou: Death encounters with Vista SP1 RTM
Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews 12 security bulletins, 7 critical. Microsoft advance bulletin
Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest
Microsoft Windows Live Mail falls to spam bots
Secunia: Skype, Java, QuickTime, PDF patches oh my; It’s been an ugly 24 hours for Windows users
Three undersea cables seen fixed by weekend
Dan Farber: Google: The four trick pony
George Ou: RBAC problems wipe out AT&T DSL in California
Ryan Stewart: Apple’s Safari gets richer with HTML5 features
Matthew Miller: Five reasons why Nokia should consider buying Yahoo
Mary Jo Foley: No more digital product keys for Windows Anytime Upgrade users Windows Mobile getting creamed by iPhone
Phil Wainewright: Taking SaaS to market: a European perspective Joshua Greenbaum: How Microsoft/Yahoo Can Beat Google In the Enterprise
Tech titans join Yahoo on OpenID
Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for elderly
Ars Technica: Apple cutting hardware production
TechCrunch: Amazon secretly adds product ads
Richard Koman: With Google likely out, who’s new bidder for spectrum?
Anchor found at cable cut site
Engadget: Intel sued over Core 2 Duo patent
Photos: Green bloggers stash trash
Larry Dignan: Cisco CEO John Chambers sees slack demand as ‘relatively short term’; How does he know?
Garett Rogers: Get your local news on Google News
Russell Shaw: Patent app points to touchscreen BlackBerry iSkoot mobile VoIP to be integrated with carrier-class Cisco gateway, softswitch
New VoIP-powered ooVoo 1.5 offers two hours of free calling, lots of other features
New 2-year contract required for iPhone upgrade? Some confusion reported at retail
Dana Blankenhorn: Remote medicine ready for prime time?
Paula Rooney: Citrix strays far from XenSource’s original open source mission
Dan Kusnetzky: Citrix moves to integrate XenSource’s technology
Roland Piquepaille: Birds give a lesson to plane designers
Dave Greenfield: Cisco to Combine Google’s Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0
Heather Clancy: Green Grid techie gathering update (in case you couldn’t be there)
Facebook says hola to Spanish amigos
Christopher Dawson: Bring it on (a Mac that is)
Richard Stiennon: Funny. 5/3 Bank advertises malware site in brochure
Michael Krigsman: More EDS issues over botched IT project in UK
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