March 11th, 2008
News to know: Firefox 3 beta 4; Microsoft's mesh; IT metrics
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Untangling Microsoft’s mesh
Larry Dignan: Cloud computing hasn’t gone Fortune 500 yet, but it’s coming
Michael Krigsman: 13 reasons IT hates metrics
Ed Burnette: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2. Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 beta 4 now available for testing
Matthew Miller: Sprint HTC Mogul update brings us the first EV-DO Rev A Windows Mobile device
Garett Rogers: Beta AdWords feature spends your budget automatically
Liberty’s Malone: Diller ran IAC as if he owned it
Nate McFeters: Concerned over Apple iPhone’s third-party development and deployment model? Yep.
- The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called
helpful apps hurt - Cisco amends its patch schedule; Next batch March 26
Google: Paid click decline was intentional; YouTube ads to increase
Images: Dextre the robot ready for space adventure (right)
AP: Texas Instruments cuts outlook
Rik Fairlie: Wi-Fire high-gain Wi-Fi antenna doesn’t always ignite
Joe McKendrick: IT governance and SOA governance: little in common
Christopher Dawson: Rolling your own starts to make more sense. Is it worth the effort to provide many operating systems to students?
HP to ramp up digital printing offering
Dana Gardner: Sun waits out Microsoft, gets some interoperability bang after all
News.com: U.S. expected to recommend Open XML as ISO standard
Engadget: TSA can’t believe MacBook Air is real; Passenger misses flight
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Examining Intel’s Skulltrail platform - and Skulltrail “on the cheap”
George Ou: Early photos of AMD Shanghai CPU
Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat calls JBOSS problems solved and marketing related
Gaps found in Microsoft Exchange API documentation
Zoho steps up enterprise game; Launches Zoho People. Gallery (right)
Dennis Howlett: Where to next for Zoho?
Michael Krigsman: Agile is cool
Steve O’Hear: Blame Zuckerberg (and Twitter) for poor SXSWi keynote; Parents joining Facebook; Paramount movies go viral
IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal
Mitch Ratcliffe: Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
Google: How Google keeps your information secure
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