April 15th, 2008
News to know: AOL, Linux; Mac clones; Mobile Web
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Making sense of Windows’ irrational pricing and licensing
Robin Harris: 2.5″ disks to become new standard in 2009
TechRepublic: 10 common mistakes to avoid when you’re installing Linux software
Christopher Dawson: My kid hates Linux. First my kid hates Linux, now I have to buy laptops with Vista
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soon
AOL buys Sphere Larry Dignan: Is AOL a viable option for Yahoo against Microsoft?
Waxy.org: Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2
Jason O’Grady: Mac clones to rise again?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Who’s interested in a non-Apple Mac? Techmeme
- Apple releases Apple TV 2.0.2 update (updated)
- Review: Tom Bihn’s Ristretto bag for the MBA
Gallery: Tom Bihn’s Ristretto bag for the MacBook Air- David Morgenstern: GizMac updates small Xserve enclosures with air filtration system
- FirmTek targets MacBook Air owners with hub for FireWire, eSATA
- AppleInsider: Apple acknowledges graphics glitch with latest notebooks
Paula Rooney: Iona exec claims open source unit won’t be sold alone, bashes MuleSource
Mary Jo Foley: Users prevail: Microsoft undoes forced move to Multimap
Dennis Howlett: Google and Salesforce.com: still not a done deal
- Salesforce.com and Google opens more cans of worms
- Larry Dignan: Google and Salesforce.com: Why don’t they merge?
- Sanity check: Will the Google revolution engulf IT departments?
Dave Greenfield: HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?
Ryan Stewart: Widevine and Microsoft team up for DRM on Silverlight
More money pouring into rich media; Move Networks adds more funding
Paul Miller: A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea
Mobile Web: Over before it began?
Heather Clancy: Keep your travel profile a little greener with Rearden Harry Fuller: Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe
News.com@NAB: Microsoft touts media business gains with Silverlight
Dennis Howlett: Project execution gets more social with Clarizen
Jason Perlow: 
Zune + Yahoo! = Y!Phone
Kingsley-Hughes: Why I didn’t buy an iPhone
Yet another academic against Wikipedia
News.com: Google mapping spec now an industry standard
Roland Piquepaille: A 2-billion-year window into the Earth
Dennis Howlett: C’mon Oracle, more noise please
Matthew Miller: Willcom D4 runs with an Intel Atom processor in a sleek form factor
Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City. Techmeme
PaidContent.org: CBS Interactive Opening Menlo Park Office; Big Acquisition Needed?
Dana Blankenhorn: Moodle your way out of the education muddle
- Is “working on it” just open source FUD?
- Working in a small business can make you sick
- Microsoft gets its first award for HealthVault
Silicon Alley Insider: Nick Denton “Pruning” Gawker Media, Ditching Three Sites
Review: HP Pavilion a6400z Desktop PC (2.6GHz, 320GB HD, 2GB RAM)
Andrew Nusca: Drool Alert: RED Scarlet ‘pocket professional’ mini camcorder
Christopher Dawson: Innovative model brings fiber to rural Vermont
Paul Murphy: Frustrations with development languages
Nate McFeters: Security expert discusses a possible future for PCI-DSS… it’s grim
Dan Kusnetzky: Skytap and the test lab in the clouds
BuzzMachine: The press becomes the press-sphere
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