February 20th, 2008
News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks
Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update
- Is Windows XP SP3 just around the corner?
- Microsoft releases February test build of SQL Server 2008
- ‘Arrowhead’ updates to .Net 3.5 to speed WPF apps
David Morgenstern: Apple updates Xsan, gets out of RAID business Jason O’Grady: MacBook Air Diary-Day 20: Cutting the cord
Yahoo beefs up severance packages (just in case Microsoft succeeds)
Robin Harris: HD DVD post-mortem: Why did Toshiba fail?
- Larry Dignan: Toshiba Betamaxes HD DVD
Photos: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player- Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player
- Josh Taylor: Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead
- Ed Burnette: HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on top
- Techmeme
- Epicenter: Is Apple ready to bust a Blu-ray move
Websense CEO on attack vectors, the future of AV and the malware arms race
Rik Fairlie: D-Link router deflects malware with new built-in SecureSpot technology
Dan Farber: Transition time at ZDNet
Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries
Paula Rooney: Mozilla’s T-Bird 3 to get an overhaul Mozilla launches Mozilla Messaging unit; Can it fix email?
Russell Shaw: Mozilla Messaging transition to Thunderbird 3 may spark VoIP integration
Verizon sending stay-with-us “inducment letters” to defecting voice customers
Will BlackBerry OS 4.6.0 see fix to battery drain issues? Perhaps not
Dan Kusnetzky: Digipede Network Version 2 Launched
Matthew Miller: AT&T and Palm launch the GSM Palm Centro for US$99.99
Phil Wainewright: How to deploy to the cloud of your choice
Boomtown: Owen Van Natta to leave Facebook
Download Squad: Is Newspond a Techmeme killer
Harry Fuller: Ocean power: catching a wave but ahead of the curve
Heather Clancy: Let the green tech lobbying begin, CEO-style
Ryan Stewart: Scribd: rich Internet….paper?
George Ou: One year till death of analog TV in USA
Garett Rogers: Microsoft to squish Google Sky like a bug?
Images: Be prepared for total lunar eclipse
Richard Koman: Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
Dana Blankenhorn: Leave Jonathan Schwartz alone!
Roland Piquepaille: Lasers for analyzing our breath?
Dana Gardner: Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service
Google’s annual report by the charts
Dell overhauls support services
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Smart Planet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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