February 27th, 2008
News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted
Paul Miller: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business
Photos: Sony’s gadget bonanza (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 beta 4 code freeze on tap, beta 5 release looks likely
Christopher Dawson: Edubuntu “Hardy” release almost ready for prime time
David Morgenstern: Is Apple’s Mighty Mouse too smart for its own good?
Larry Dignan: If CAPTCHAs are decommissioned what comes next?
- Google not so recession proof after all: Monetization down in January. Techmeme
- Google buys chunk of Trans-Pacific undersea cable
- Google: Microsoft’s OOXML shouldn’t be a standard
- Garett Rogers: ComScore results demolish Google’s share price
Paula Rooney: Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft … but not Oracle? Larry Dignan: Sun completes MySQL purchase; Eyes more open source acquisitions
TI expands application chips beyond phones
ReadWriteWeb: Will Facebook profile tabs lead to better apps?
Joe McKendrick: Survey: companies investing millions in SOA, but don’t exactly know why
Rik Fairlie: A small-business router from Ruckus that delivers range and reliability
Images: First U.S. spy satellite photos–ever!
Steve O’Hear: Yahoo launches “Buzz” - phew! not quite a Digg clone
Richard Koman: Pakistan reverses course and brings back YouTube
Producer, game firm in rights battle over zombies
George Ou: Vuze vs. Comcast: BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth
Robin Harris: A 16 GB DIMM
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft HealthVault is nothing like Google Health
Portfolio.com: Comcast Astroturfs the old fashioned way
John Morris: AMD Phenom triple-core coming soon
Fighting the battle against identity theft
Joshua Greenbaum: SAP Takes A Swing at Oracle
VMware signs deal to embed software in HP servers
Jason O’Grady: Apple updates MacBook Pro with Penryn; Multitouch
Photos: Apple adds, power touch to MacBook Pros- Larry Dignan: Apple refreshes its MacBook Pro lineup
- Josh Taylor: And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use
Yahoo kicks off open search; Does it have the open platform street cred?Photos: Geek heaven at WonderCon
Dennis Howlett: Marc Benioff on AIR (and Flex plus Flash)
Apple: Apple is No. 2 music retailer
Computerworld: Microsoft says cold boot encryption hack unlikely
Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messages 
Matthew Miller: iPhone update 1.1.4 available, better reception and device speed? SoftMaker Office 2008 beta brings PowerPoint functionality to Pocket PCs
Photos: Geek heaven at WonderCon
Russell Shaw: Report: sales of carrier-grade routers and switches up 16% in 2007
Ubuntu Mobile: who cares? Sorry, mostly coders and open source reality distortionists for now
Richard Stiennon: You can keep on asking…
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPod shuffle memory boost
Wired: The brash programmers at 37signals will tell you to keep it simple
Dan Kusnetzky: Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?
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