February 19th, 2008
News to know: HD DVD done; Vista SP1 problems and benchmarks; MacBook Air Diary; Green data centers
Notable headlines:
Robin Harris: What your disk drive isn’t telling you.
Toshiba: We’re done with HD DVD
Report: Toshiba to announce HD DVD pullout Tuesday. Microsoft says end of HD DVD won’t hurt Xbox 360
Mary Jo Foley: No update from Microsoft on Vista SP1, Media Cent
er problems. Microsoft adds new features to its Popfly mash-up tool. Microsoft keeps the Live fires burning. There’s no Windows Server 2008 SP1 in the works. Here’s why
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Benchmarked. Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Part Deux
Dan Farber: Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service Ryan Stewart: Bungee Labs and platform as a service: a great RIA
Dan Kusnetzky: How does the use of virtualization technology differ by industry?
Michael Krigsman: Seven antidotes to the caustic politics of IT failure
- Google’s huge data centers: the IT failures question
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Larry Dignan: Amazon explains its S3 outage
Jason O’Grady: MacBook Air Diary-Day 19: Traveling light
Dana Blankenhorn: The next frontier for GPL Violations
Richard Stiennon: California court order effectively erases Wikileaks. Techmeme. Richard Koman: ISP turns over hundreds of email accounts to FBI
Images: A deviant art collection (right)
Heather Clancy: New data center facilities company finds green home on the range
Harry Fuller: Are you the new Mr. Green Jeans? Cottoning on to “green” clothes
Dan Farber: BlueTie brings ‘featuretisements’ to workflow. Microhoo update: Culture clash, Alibaba and board room politics. Data center centerfold: Google’s new Oregon facility
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry-Motorola patent infringement fight makes little sense to me BlackBerry maker, Motorola duel in lawsuits
Ryan Stewart: HD rich media continues to bloom
Joshua Greenbaum: IDS Scheer: Jazzing up BPM
MacRumors: Advanced multitouch gesturing in Mac OS X control panel
ReadWriteWeb: Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds
Phil Fersht: Should your firm offload its offshore operations to an outsourcing provider?
Gallery: The $330 IPCop/Copfilter firewall 25 watt appliance (right) George Ou: The $330 IPCop/Copfilter firewall 25 watt appliance
Garett Rogers: Gmail task list feature spotted in the wild. GrandCentral suffers major outage
Matthew Miller: MWC08: Share on Ovi launches as the first Ovi service by Nokia
- A look at the S60 touch UI
- Opera Mobile 9.5 running on a Sony Ericsson UIQ device
- Ed Burnette: Nokia debuts Android phone, sort of
Roland Piquepaille: Robotic rats will get a sense of touch
Ed Gottsman: Wikinomics 4: the prosumers
Steve O’Hear: With friends like these… how can Seesmic fail?
Blogger battle royale: Michael Arrington vs. Fred Wilson
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
For daily updates, follow Larry on Twitter.
Subscribe to Between the Lines via Email alerts or RSS.
