March 31st, 2008

News to know: OOXML; Adobe AIR for Linux; Copyright; Best midrange hardware

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:12 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Photo-sharing, Dashwire, Linux, UNIX

Notable headlines:

Paula Rooney: Microsoft’s OOXML gets ISO approval … maybe

• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
• OOXML standard vote down to the wire
•  Christopher Dawson: OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care?

Ryan Stewart: Adobe AIR alpha for Linux is out Paula Rooney: Adobe brings AIR RIA tool to Linux

Limo debuts first mobile Linux platform amid steep competition

Denise Howell: Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 “Best Kit List” for Apr 08/May 08 Gallery (right)

Security wrap:

• Nate McFeters: Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash
• Black Hat Europe, Day 2: The day that wasn’t and Black Hat Europe, Day 3: Begin the presentations
• Larry Dignan: SEO poisoning attack hits big sites; Can the defenses scale?
• The iPhone Project: The iPhone: finally PWNED
• All Headline News: Linux Declared ‘Hacker Proof’

Jason O’Grady: An analysis of data densities; SD v. SSD

Apple moving up in green rankings

Roland Piquepaille: Silicon chips for optical quantum computing

• A single-photon channel to space
• A microscope that emails medical images

News.com: Yahoo targets women with Shine

Larry Dignan: Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch

Kara Swisher: What MicroHoo Might Be Like — Things have been quiet …

• Dan Farber: Microhoo: When will the mating dance end?
• What’s Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?

Kingsley-Hughes: Console gaming will “die in the next 5 to 10 years”

• 3G iPhone - Go or no go?
• Putting perspective on the “30% of Vista crashes caused by nVIDIA” reports

Matthew Miller: What Waterfield Designs SleeveCases fit the Fujitsu U810 and Celio REDFLY? Gallery (right).

• Dashwire opens public beta, threaded SMS and photo sharing included
• The next WinMo Palm Treo may be the first with 320×320 and integrated WiFi

Dana Blankenhorn: Should doctors’ offices go SaaS? Why we still hate Microsoft

Free is not always open, open need not be free

Fred Wilson: Uncertainty

Heather Clancy: Cisco: Rethinking power for an always-on world

IT Facts: Global storage software market in 2007

• Worldwide external disk storage reached $5.3 bln in 2007

Garett Rogers: Google turns the lights out for Earth Hour

VentureBeat: Q&A with Mozilla’s John Lilly on 10 years of Mozilla and the future of browsers

Dennis Howlett: A fresh Firefox install: drastic but cathartic

Delaware court rules in favor of IAC’s Diller

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Christopher Dawson: Are mini-laptops worth deploying without Internet access?

Janice Chen: Adobe launches free Web app and photo sharing service, Photoshop Express

• David Morgenstern: Concerns raised over content ownership, terms with Adobe Photoshop Express service
• Christopher Dawson: Photoshop Express a fine, free tool for teachers and students

Week in review: Social media open for business

Turning over a new leaf at Quark