April 18th, 2008
News to know: Google; AMD; Desktop Linux; Green IT; Psystar
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren’t such a big deal
- Charles Cooper: Google settles a score with ComScore
- Techmeme
AMD posts loss; sees seasonally down quarter ahead
Gallery: Hyper-V virtualization in action (right)
Phil Wainewright: Amazon Web Services gets serious about enterprise
- Amazon steps up Web services support
- Amazon: May We Help You?
- Business systems for a faster, flatter world
- NetSuite rolls out OneWorld suite; Eyes ERP in the cloud
- Dion Hinchcliffe: Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
Dennis Howlett: SocialText moves the collaboration goalposts
TechRepublic: Choosing and installing your Linux software
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is it Microsoft or Ubuntu that scared Red Hat away from the desktop?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat’s right move
- Red Hat delivers its state of desktop Linux address: There’s no money in targeting consumers
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?
Heather Clancy: Hitachi tests its own green IT theories with new data center project
- Joe McKendrick: Carbon management dashboards and SOA’s uncertain role in Green IT
- Harry Fuller: Scientists in Europe: be afraid, but there may be hope from friendly phytoplankton
MacRumors: Aluminum MultiTouch MacBook, New MacBook Pro, and More? [Updated]
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD/ATi release Catalyst 8.4, adds support for new cards under Linux
Matthew Miller: Do you watch mobile TV on your cellphone?
Photos: Brazil’s homegrown PCs (right)
The best Facebook apps for business and career enhancement
Nathan McFeters: PCI Compliance gets clarified and neutered (further)
Richard Koman: Psystar: Go-to-jail-free card
- Psystar mystery adds up to phishing scam
- Psystar: We’re legit, but our merchant gateway dropped us
- PowerPay statement on Psystar
- Poll of the Day - Should Apple decouple the OS from their hardware?
TechCrunch: The Twitter/FriendFeed Desktop Client Arms Race Continues
Blankenhorn: Open source tries again with health care
Roland Piquepaille: Shooting movies of molecules
Microsoft woos hobbyist developers
PaidContent.org: CBS Interactive Reorganizes Under Pressure To Show Results
Paula Rooney: OOXML appeal possible, but looks unl
ikely
John Morris: First reviews of the Asus Eee PC 900
Photos: MIT Energy Conference talks money, coal, and ‘Enertech’
Dana Gardner: Thought leadership grows around advancing ‘WOA plus SOA’ as enterprise-cloud duo
Andrew Nusca: Is Nikon preparing a 24-megapixel D3 replacement? Janice Chen: Panasonic introduces first Wi-Fi Lumix digital camera
Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes Microsoft
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