February 26th, 2008
News to know: Google Health; Yahoo; XP's early days; Your IT budget
Notable headlines:
Dana Blankenhorn: Google Health makes its pitch
Garett Rogers: Chatback: Let people comment using Google Talk
- Google fires up this year’s Summer of Code
- Google: Consortium builds transPacific cable to connect U.S. and Japan
Ed Bott: Remembering Windows XP’s early days
Dana Blankenhorn: Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: mobile Linux stalled by proprietary lock on industry, lack of neutral Linux platform
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ to get more entertainment hooks
- Microsoft unveils new proposed advertising metric and tool
- OOXML vs. ODF: What’s happening this week
Gartner: Prep those IT cost cutting plans 
Video: Will Web users flock to Flock?
Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (2008 at right)
Larry Dignan: Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware’s desktop apps
VMware steps up IT automation game
Dan Kusnetzky: Storage virtualization: Why aren’t the big guys talking more about it?
New York Times: FCC to act on delaying broadband traffic
Techmeme: Yahoo Buzz launches. Yahoo: An open approach to search
Dave Greenfield: SpigIT: an enterprise social network that’s fun and games
Christopher Dawson: The firewall is a little restrictive, don’t you think?
Phil Wainewright: SaaS client reaches functional parity with client-server
Joe McKendrick: ‘Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM’
Another view: SOA opening up ‘can of worms’ in organizations
Larry Dignan: The EU: Too much control over the tech sector (and Mi
crosoft) ? John Carroll: Tempering the EC’s antitrust enthusiasm
Photos: Nokia’s flexible, bendy, transparent phone
Russell Shaw: Technology for “stretchable” cellphones now on exhibit
- Skype appoints new CEO: “I want to learn.” Well, duh
“They” could be listening to your VoIP calls: here’s what to do about it
Roland Piquepaille: Lensless camera for nanoscale imaging
Ed Burnette: Forget AMD, Intel should buy Nvidia
Harry Fuller: Little nation has big green ideas
Janice Chen: Sony announces two new line-topping cameras: Cyber-shot DSC W300 and DSC-H50
Heather Clancy: How green is your network? D-Link sparks conversation on green factor of Ethernet gear
Webtop meets desktop: Are we there yet?
At FCC, change must be the mantra
Jason O’Grady: John Stewart’s iPhone: Product placement or pop culture?
Apple: The angst vs. the reality
AppleInsider: New MacBook Pro parts appear in inventory
Beyond compliance: Keys to effective user access risk management
Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messages
New alliances reshaping the LCD industry
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