March 6th, 2008
News to know: Microsoft vs. Amazon; Cracking wireless LANs; iPhone; AMD
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface
George Ou: New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs
Forbes: Gates no longer the richest man
John Morris: Samsung bets on SSDs and mobile hard drives
Photos: Cracking open the MacBook Air
Larry Dignan: Does Adobe really need the iPhone? Not really
- Steve O’Hear: iPhone SDK will see an explosion of Social Web software
- Russell Shaw: Is proprietary iPhone video player on the way?
Garett Rogers: Google is about to let you sync with your Outlook
Google: Contacts API has landed
George Ou: AT&T’s degrading service and my landlord’s ban on Comcast
Heather Clancy: Are green IT services the new Y2K boondoogle? Ballmer: Microsoft is thinking green. James Farrar: PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures
Christopher Dawson: My Singularity wish list
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD/ATi Catalyst 8.3 display drivers released - Making a compelling case for Vista. 
Gallery (right).
Michael Krigsman: Reducing IT failures with project portfolio management
Paul Murphy: Costs: Wintel vs. open source. Dana Blankenhorn: Murphy’s law, or why WinTel wins
Mix ‘08:
- Ryan Stewart: MIX08 keynote rundown
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Mix ‘08 keynote kick-off: The Cliff Notes version
- Techmeme.
- Kingsley-Hughes: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - Tour.
- IE 8 gallery (right)
- Acid3 browser test released, nobody passes
Yahoo ditches March 13 Microsoft proxy war deadline
Dana Blankenhorn: Will privacy keep Health 2.0 from the starting gate?
Dennis Howlett: Veotag demonstrates video value
News.com: Web 2.0 VC to startups: Your income is noise
Janice Chen: Olympus announces E-420, the most compact DSLR to date
TechTrader Daily: Intel: Otellini Says 53% Drop In NAND Pricing In Q1; Sharp Fall Affects Inventory As Well As Unit Pricing
David Morgenstern: Parallels opens up Server Beta program
Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!
Rik Fairlie: How much performance gain can you expect from a Draft-N router?
Dana Gardner: Cloud computing for enterprises, work it through your head
Joshua Greenbaum: Making Web 2.0 Safe for the Enterprise: TOS Ã la PBWiki
Roland Piquepaille: Give your computer the sense of touch
Sony: U.S. electronics sales still solid
- IT Facts: x86 server market grew 7.6% in Q4 2007
- Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch
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