April 1st, 2008
News to know: Dell; MinWin; Microsoft's Glasnost; Mozilla
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Dell: We’ll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions
Ed Bott: Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel?
Jason Perlow: Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0. Dana Blankenhorn: If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it
WSJ: Microsoft Unlikely to Raise Yahoo Offer
Mary Jo Foley: Report: Mozilla enterprise browser share hits 18 percent
Paula Rooney: Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote Wednesday
Foley: OOXML vs. ODF - lessons learned
Richard Koman: ‘Scandal’ over Norway’s vote for OOXML
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile announces the WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Pearl, Verizon finally gets the Curve
Richard Branson: Announcing Project Virgle
Dennis Howlett: Swarming around in HiveLive
Heather Clancy: EPA to data center operators: We want your energy stats
Rik Fairlie: New service could make your 3G phone a Wi-Fi hot spot
TechRepublic: Five reasons to centralize your IT department
Dana Blankenhorn: Novell insists it’s winning the Linux wars
Larry Dignan:
Apple’s iPhone: Can it hit 45 million units by end of 2009? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Selling 45 million iPhones a year?
Silicon Alley Insider: RIM’s iPhone Killer: Just Like iPhone, But Crappier Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry 9000 first impressions
David Morgenstern: What is the rate of Mac OS X Leopard adoption?
Security wrap:
- Dignan: Pwn2Own: What OS really won?
- Nate McFeters: More details on the Pwn2Own Flash flaw that won the Vista machine
- Black Hat Europe, Day 2 (Revisited): An interview with an invisible hacker
- Computerworld: Hannaford says malware planted on servers stole credit card numbers
- Fortify aims for the security suite spot; Moves upstream
Garett Rogers: Google launches Dajare in Japan
Webware: Google Docs getting offline access
Roland Piquepaille: Women’s attractiveness judged by software
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New 3D workstation graphics card from AMD: ATI FireGL V7700
Denise Howell: Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
Photos: Improv Everywhere’s public hijinks (right)
News.com: After 38 years, a new type of memory to hit market
Dave Greenfield: The Semantic Web goes thin. Dana Gardner: WSO2 launches Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0
Robin Harris: Microsoft’s storage geeks speak
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #127, Thoughts and experiences with the REDFLY and HTC Shift
Christopher Dawson: A “goldmine for Intel” and a treasure trove for Ed Tech
- So I introduced my students to Twitter
- University of Massachusetts enters online degree deal with China
Shell farms out IT, telecommunications to EDS, AT&T, T-Systems for $4.2 billion
Dan Kusnetsky: Citrix and NetApp Do the Virtualization Dance Together
Andrew Nusca: How to predict the weather of your cubicle via USB
Can the Apple logo make you more creative?
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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