March 17th, 2008
News to know: EclipseCon; Tired browser wars; Apple; P4P; R.I.P. Russell Shaw
Notable headlines:
Rest in peace Russell Shaw. Techmeme
Ed Burnette: EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more
Jason O’Grady: Getting tired of the browser-go-round David Morgenstern: Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard’s icons
Jason Perlow: McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?
Mary Jo Foley: Is Yahoo is best way for Microsoft to spend its cash?
Could Yahoo’s ‘openness’ be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
Retail Vista SP1 and final XP SP3 expected this week
Paula Rooney: Mono project releases first IDE, Mono 2.0 into beta
ReadWriteWeb: Yahoo Buzz is a game changer
New Scientist: WiMax a threat to satellite communications
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Larry Dignan: Flickr: Too late to the video party to matter? Techmeme
Garett Rogers: Early St. Patrick’s Day easter egg on Google Maps
Jason O’Grady: The media center keyboard Apple should have made
Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 1
Robin Harris: P4P: faster, smarter P2P
- George Ou: Japan’s ISPs agree to ban P2P pirates
- Richard Koman: Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at least
- What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharers
Joe McKendrick: Analyst: why even the best SOAs are ’stalling’
Roland Piquepaille: Intelligent side-impact protection for cars
News.com: Microsoft to license Adobe Flash Lite
Computerworld: Just patched Excel makes calculation mistakes
Christopher Dawson: NYPhilkids.org - what an educational website should be With a name like Optimist Prime, it’s gotta be good
Google Open Source Blog: Look, actual code.
Joshua Greenbaum: Microsoft’s Platform as a Service Plans: Putting the Pieces Together
Rik Fairlie: How wireless power could deliver a truly wireless network
Indie labels take e-commerce into their own hands
Dave Greenfield: The Longtail of IT Governance
Dana Blankenhorn: The Moore’s Law of open source
Ars Technica: China now number one in executions, population and Web surfing
IT Facts: Top sites on user engagement
- Americans spend 32.7 hours a week online
- US retail e-commerce sales in 2007 grew 19.0
- 60% of Americans aged 18-29 send or receive text messages
- $129 bln worth of consumer electronics sold in the US in 2007
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple to iPhone devs: Keep on developing for Jailbroken iPhones guys!
Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day
Heather Clancy: Green thinking is well established. Green brands, not so much
Samsung to spend $1.4 billion to upgrade chip lines
Richard Koman: House nixes telecom immunity, votes to investigate abuses
California Internet sales tax bill faces long odds
Harry Fuller: Money, Politics and Energy: Menage That Screws the American Consumer
Steve O’Hear: First MySpace OpenSocial apps unveiled with very little fanfare
Paul Miller: Commercial uses of the Semantic Web at WWW2008 ?
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