March 21st, 2008
News to know: Windows 7; FCC; Census IT; HDMI; MacBook mystery; Fave Windows programs
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs 
Gallery (right)
Mary Jo Foley: Why Windows 7 might go to pieces
Michael Krigsman: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
George Ou: HDMI survival guide for home theater
David Morgenstern: The MacBook’s mysterious WiFi dropout problem is still unsolved
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: S3 Graphics launches Chrome 400 Series - DirectX 10.1 and HD support for under 60
Larry Dignan: FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Apple saved us when Google would not
- Richard Koman: Auction over, FCC ponders public safety D block
Garett Rogers: Google releases AJAX Translation API
News.com: LinkedIn’s business directory goes live
Christopher Dawson: Classmates for the rest of us!
Security wrap:
- The week in Apple patches
- Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flaw
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft inches toward public beta of ‘Stirling’ security suite
- Microsoft acquires rootkit specialist Komoku; DoD now a customer
- Nate McFeters: Not scared about Cross-Site Request Forgery? You should be… you’re scared of jail aren’t you?
- eVoting systems come under fire
- News.com: FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
- Richard Koman: White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
Photos: Dinosaur sightings: Osborne 1 and TRS-80 4P
Rik Fairlie: Apple’s new AirPort Express 802.11n takes the slow lane. Jason O’Grady: Straight outta Aki
Dana Blankenhorn: Appcelerator says it has forge 2.0
Dion Hinchcliffe: Standards support for mashups emerge
James Farrar: Facebook: Revolution, Weed and Philanthropy
Google data watch: Enough with the overanalysis
JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibility
Richard Koman; Inside China’s Golden Shield
Amazon: Our most fulfilling service yet
Roland Piquepaille: 25 environmental threats in our future
Henry Blodget: AOL: Many Senior Managers Were Against Bebo Buy Steve O’Hear: Report: AOL ignored senior mana
gement doubts over Bebo buy
Photos: Flying car readies for takeoff in New York
Matthew Miller: Google Android device from HTC dubbed the “Dream”
Amazon’s Bezos: Our Kindle supply issues almost fixed
Josh Taylor: Sony PS3 getting BD-Live sooner rather than later
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: I’m really worried about AMD …
Kara Swisher: BoomTown Decodes TechCrunch’s Dream Team Memo (So You Don’t Have To)
Dan Kusnetzky: The battle over the embedded hypervisor
Christopher Dawson: New WiFi from Intel improves rural communications
Paul Miller: Jim Hendler shares AI’s lessons for the Semantic Web
Ina Fried: Are Apple’s ads hurting Microsoft’s brand?
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