April 7th, 2008
News to know: Microhoo redux; Mobile Linux; Jive; Google; Let XP die
Yahoo launches ’stock market for ads’
Larry Dignan: The three week Microhoo countdown begins… Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot
Paula Rooney: Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile Linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008
Dana Blankenhorn: What mobile Linux is missing
Christopher Dawson: 9000 PCs in Swiss schools going Linux only
Moblin.org provides a glimpse into MID/netbook development
Garett Rogers: Google to launch BigTable this week?
TechCrunch: Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point)
Janice Chen: The highs and lows of digital camcorders: Flip Video Ultra vs. Sony Handycam HDR-TG1
Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut. New York Times: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop Techmeme. Dana Gardner: I’m dying to blog on the NYT story, but it’s nothing to lose sleep over
Dennis Howlett: Jive Clearspace 2.0: a clear improvement
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Friday Rant: Let XP die!
Ed Bott: Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HD
Roland Piquepaille: Every move you make tracked by RFID tags
Michael Krigsman: Crazed supermodel pissed at Heathrow T5 failure
New York Times: Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System
Ryan Stewart: JavaFX preview coming in May with a 1.0 release “shortly thereafter”
Tom Foremski: Apple’s secret plan to grab a chunk of the search market
Laptop makers adopt 3G Gobi chipset
Harry Fuller: How much solar to run the whole U.S.?
Dana Gardner: ‘Platform as a Service’ enables cloud-based software development and deployment lifecycle approach
Joe McKendrick: Something strange in your SOA… who you gonna call?
Review: HP Officejet H470b Mobile Printer
Nate McFeters: Taking ownership of content
Inside Facebook: Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions
China allows access to English Wikipedia
Jason O’Grady: Adobe reconsiders Photoshop Express TOS
- David Morgenstern: New iPhone case says it can boost reception
- Rumor Mill: What you’ll be coveting from Apple next
- WWDC ‘08 sessions and labs announced
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Creative backs down on modded
Vista drivers
Harry Fuller: Air wars and the future of green tech firms
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)
MobileTechRoundup show #128, CTIA, S60 gaming, ULCPC, and WM 6.1
Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case
Foley: Microsoft weekend roundup: The’no’s’ have it
- Windows 7: The delivery-date speculation continues
- Microsoft blogger publishes Silverlight 2.0 timetable
- Robin Harris: Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP
- Bott: The Vista license “loophole” that isn’t
Paul Murphy: That’s a QED - on “odd internet risks”
Gag lifted, Verizon, AT&T, Google open up on FCC 700 Mhz auction
Richard Koman: Feds lift ban on IBM
Christopher Dawson: The best Linux distro for a new breed of PCs
Heather Clancy: System builder Super Micro shows green stripes
Dennis Howlett: Want Surface but not the cost? Try wii’ing
Dell’s grand plan a dud with analysts; Where’s the detail?
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