April 8th, 2008
News to know: AMD; IT spending; Google; Microsoft Mesh; ULPCs
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor? Garett Rogers: Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry?
Michael Krigsman: Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened
Larry Dignan: AMD: Sales weak; Layoffs on tap
Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets
- Christopher Dawson: Time for a new model of ULPC?
- Matthew Miller: HP announces the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
- Can HP’s new ULPC compete?
David Morgenstern: Can BootCamp mess with your Mac’s PRAM?
Rik Fairlie: Intel splits Wi-Fi signal to create two adapters
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite.
- Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
- Ed Bott: Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed
- Jason Perlow: If I were to design Windows 7
Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost
Harry Fuller: Behold the used printer cartridge–a green project
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source market making arrives with Marketcetera
Phil Wainewright: Let the PaaS wars begin
TechCrunch: “Deep Integration” Between Google Apps and Salesforce to Be Announced Next Monday
The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
Roland Piquepaille: 3-D collaborative body art in Scotland
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 - Best software applications/tools/utilities. Gallery (right).
Heather Clancy: Infor software offers insight into consumption patterns
Dan Kusnetzky: InstallFree and Desktop Virtualization
NYT: Facebook to Settle Thorny Lawsuit Over Its Origins
Techrepublic: Sanity check: Counterpoint — five reasons to decentralize your IT department
Bill Detwiler: Virtual worlds invade the average business meeting
Dana Gardner: As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users
XML-empowered documents extend SOA’s connection to people and processes
Jason O’Grady: I don’t need GPS in my iPhone.
- Flow: The new face of FTP
- Apple Insider: Apple notebook lines to see major design changes, sources say
Dennis Howlett: Oracle Ironman and other super heroes
TechCrunch: Amazon Web Services Gets Another Hiccup
At MTI Micro, pushing fuel cells for portables
Paul Murphy: Is Java Windows for Unix?
Photos: An end to ‘wrap rage’?
News.com: Can Sony get 50% market share for Blu-ray this year?
Electronista: Motorola settles in fight with Carl Icahn
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