February 22nd, 2008
News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability–again
- Reading the fine print on Microsoft’s new open-source promises
- Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s real game: Open interoperability protects its stack
- Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft responds to European demands with “Good Steve” day
- John Carroll: Countering the Microsoft cynics
- Dennis Howlett: Can we cut Microsoft some slack here?
- Techmeme
Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 2: DTrace, (un)Smashing the Stack, Cisco IOS Forensics
Images: How to bypass FileVault, BitLocker security (right)
George Ou: Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods
Jason Hiner: Sprint will make Xohm an open platform. Sprint plans to open up WiMAX, launch SDK, open APIs. Techmeme.
Jason O’Grady: MacBook Air Diary-Day 22: Argh! Recessed headphone jack
Knowledge@Wharton: Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the value of a good prank
David Morgenstern: Will the MacBook Air ruin the MacBook Pro?
MacBook Air: Motion sensor ‘bizarrely’ enabled with solid-state disk option
Phil Wainewright: Rackspace, as a service
Michael Krigsman: System update kicks Heathrow baggage system offline
Ed Bott: Microsoft removes another one of WGA’s fangs
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft SkyDrive no longer just a beta
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista 32-bit vs. Vista 64-bit - Benchmarked
Dana Blankenhorn: Sun’s OpenSolaris community problem
AP: Intuit reaffirms 2008 guidance
Harry Fuller: Off the grid: energy independence in the real world
Roland Piquepaille: 3-D imaging with FINCH
Russell Shaw: T-Mobile Talk Forever VoIP? Too early to tell. Matthew Miller: T-Mobile announces new Talk Forever service for Seattle and Dallas, no home phone now needed
Ed Gottsman: Wikinomics 5: The New Alexandrians
James Farrar: McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle
Bits: Chumby is open, just not for business
IBM calculates the force it takes to move atoms
Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite (right)
Josh Taylor: What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-ray
Dana Gardner: Informatica offers Data Migration Suite; Wipro to leverage its power
Ed Burnette: Android developers fight for XMPP support
Missile strikes ailing U.S. spy satellite
Russell Shaw: New Apple Patent app describes technology for personalized podcasts to iPhone, other devices
Netscape 9 users: Time to Flock or Firefox?
Reuters: Motorola names new CFO
Virgin Galactic orders more spaceships
Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs
Q&A: 100-plus WiiWare titles in development
Will you trust your medical information to Google?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Healthvault asks the questions while Google goes beta
- Garett Rogers: Google Health set to launch today
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