April 14th, 2008
News to know: Salesforce and Google; LiveMesh; Cloud computing; Linux
Notable headlines:
Phil Wainewright: Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise
Garett Rogers: Google announces SalesForce integration with Google Apps
Mary Jo Foley: The big reveal: Live Mesh
Statement: Blockbuster proposes to buy Circuit City
Cloud computing in depth:
- Dion Hinchcliffe: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
- Dana Gardner: Google App Engine creation process live on Twitter
- Garett Rogers: The problem with Google Apps Engine
- Joe McKendrick: Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?
- Phil Wainewright: Google: App Engine ‘not fit for business’. Is Facebook a PaaS contender?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Google Cloud draws open source
Garett Rogers: Google set to make Google TV Ads public
TechRepublic: When e-mail serves to lower productivity
- Surprise! IBM brings SOA to the real world with new tools
- 10+ dumb business decisions that can take a company down
Roland Piquepaille: Improved hurricane forecasts with VORTRAC. Explaining science with drawings. Ready for a CyberWalk?
Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie getting the old band back together?
BusinessWeek: The new e-espionage threat
Larry Dignan: Attacks escalate on critical U.S. government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)
Christopher Dawson: My kid hates Linux
Amazon: Storage Space, The Final Frontier
Larry Dignan: AMD’s CTO steps down; Chipmaker says bench strong
FCC to look into firms’ use of customer data
Tom Foremski: A lawyer inside your PC - British software can flag corporate nefariousness
TechCrunch: GrandCentral Offline: If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can’t Go Dead
Michael Krigsman: Absolutely amazing: Integrator completes ERP project on-time
Heather Clancy: Sun revs its data center efficiency message
- When should you tackle that data center rationalization project?
- Harry Fuller: Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!
TechCrunch: Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale
Photos (right): San Francisco’s greenest home?
Georgia patients’ records exposed on Web for weeks
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Arrrghhhh! Windows is collapsing! Run! … but where to?
- Dana Blankenhorn: The Linux lesson Windows needs
- Dignan: Windows is a glacier and glaciers don’t melt overnight
- Foley: Reports of Windows’ demise are greatly exaggerated
Jason O’Grady: Apple Rumor Mill: What you should be saving up for
Ryan Stewart: Two new desktop applications for FriendFeed
Richard Koman: FCC fines stores over TV labeling
TorrentFreak: Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks”
Dave Greenfield: The one thing Asterisk has been missing
Oracle preps critical database patches
Rik Fairlie: How to network Outlook using Google Apps
Images: Eyephone explains where you are
Jason Perlow: Progress on standardizing the @#$%! chargers
Hulu: Sharing is good
Computerworld: Three different hackers found ‘Pwn To Own’ bug
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