March 20th, 2008
News to know: HTC Shift; Airport firmware; Microsoft mesh; Novell; VoIP
Notable headlines:
David Morgenstern: Apple’s security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack component
Mary Jo Foley: Whatever happened to Microsoft’s ‘other’ mesh projects?
Paula Rooney: Novell’s SUSE Linux 11 to come in appliance, embedded, real-time editions
Dennis Howlett: The end of software… 
George Ou: The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog
Fraunhofer IIS shows audio technology at VON.x 2008
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 3.1 is fast … but so is Firefox 3.0 Beta 4
Larry Dignan: Adobe clarifies CEO’s iPhone Flash comments
- Google’s app war vs Microsoft: About to ramp?
- Robert Scoble: Google about to drop the other Enterprise shoe on Microsoft?
- Google: Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API
- Garett Rogers: The new Google Spreadsheet Feature and Visualization API
Computerworld: A storage technology that breaks Moore’s Law
News.com: Verizon Wireless opens network
John Morris: Dell’s tablet, take two
Jason Hiner: IT departments brace for more Web video during Mar
ch Madness 2008
Matthew Miller: The long awaited HTC Shift is now coming to you from Sprint, 140+ hands-on photos. Gallery (right). A closer look at the HTC Shift from Sprint
Ryan Stewart: SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in funding
Dell: Recent Opinion on SSD Failure Rates Fails to Include the Facts
Dana Blankenhorn: New business models for medical device makers
Paul Miller: TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack
Tom Foremski: Have we misinterpreted the business value of the long tail?
Heather Clancy: Making a fantasy team sport out of going green Harry Fuller: Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctness
TechRepublic: The Osborne 1 is now in a Cracked Open Photo Gallery
Matthew Miller: Can the REDFLY Windows Mobile Sm
artphone Companion succeed where the Foleo couldn’t? Gallery right.
Dana Gardner: Sybase releases iPhone enterprise email solution
SpringSource releases cool tool suite based on Eclipse Mylyn
Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balm
F-Secure warns of critical vulnerabilities
Subscription iTunes? It can’t come soon enough
Wired: How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong
Jason Perlow: Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours
Dan Kusnetzky: Brainshare: Novell is better than its marketing
VentureBeat: Ad network Federated Media close to raising $30M round, valued at $200M
Ding dong: 3Com, Bain, Huawei deal is dead
Roland Piquepaille: Robots fly over Antarctica
Photos: iPod flies high with space shuttle
TechCrunch: More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. Techmeme.
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