March 4th, 2008
News to know: IE 8; eBay security; Microhoo; Favorite Windows programs; Apple
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft caves: ‘Super-standards’ mode to become IE 8 default. Microsoft’s IE blog
Nate McFeters: eBay Red Team Event - Creating Security Awareness and Sharing Strategies
Ed Bott’s 10 Favorite Windows Programs. 
Gallery (right).
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up
Foley: Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there
Ryan Stewart: Practice Fusion - an RIA targeted at doctors in the field
- Infragistics releases NetAdvantage for Visual Studio 2008
- Offline Silverlight: No current plans but eventually (And some Expression Blend news)
- Dana Gardner: Nexaweb Advance takes RIA value to the enterprise application modernization imperative
Paul Miller: Richard Waters showcases the ‘world wise web’
Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s Liddell: Yahoo could be SaaSy if management would talk to us
- Phil Wainewright: Microsoft disappoints on SaaS. Didn’t you see it coming?
- Dana Gardner: Microsoft opens Pandora’s box on online services, betting convenience is the killer app
Jason Perlow: Windows: Time to Go on a Diet
David Morgenstern: iPhone SDK release rumor roundup
Jason O’Grady: Time Capsule ships; quickly unboxed and dissected (updated)
Photos: Time Capsule unboxing and setup- Review: 1TB Time Capsule
- Kingsley-Hughes: Does Apple’s “Time Capsule” contain a server-grade hard drive? Does it matter?
- News.com: Apple falls short of 1,000 movie rentals
Russell Shaw: Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP
Mitch Ratcliffe: Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledge
Dana Blankenhorn: Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?
VentureBeat: AOL’s new strategy: Quantity over quality
Matthew Miller: Asus EeePC successor with 8.9 inch display to be announced at CeBIT soon
Garett Rogers: Google Talk desktop client set for an update?
Techmeme: TNS buys Compete.com
Rik Fairlie: The Chumby: A Wi-Fi-enabled alarm clock on steroids
Heather Clancy: Data warehouse appliance upstart plays the green card
China Mobile says keen on iPhone, but not in talks
Steve O’Hear: MTV to air “The MySpace Chart” show
John Carroll: Windows Server 2008’s ode to open source
Supercomputing and the art of the sales pitch
Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards
Acer to aquire E-TEN in recognition of converged device market
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