April 24th, 2008
News to know: Apple; Windows updates; Google mobile ads; Denial of service attack 101
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? Techmeme
Ed Bott: Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft
- Mary Jo Foley: Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEs
- Microsoft begins automatic distribution of Vista SP1
today
Amazon earnings solid; Ups sales range
Reuters: Justice Dept looking at Google/Yahoo test
Garett Rogers: Google now offering mobile banner ads
Photos: Fujitsu adds all-in-one PC, secure hard drive
John Morris: Green PCs from Dell, Asus
Michael Krigsman: Salesforce.com’s bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
Epicenter: The I Hate Facebook Club Is Growing
Joe McKendrick: SOA makes even the US Marines nervous
News.com: FBI grilled again over computer upgrade woes
Paula Rooney: LSB SDK, aka 4.0, could be panacea for Linux app developers .. and Ubuntu
- Ksplice automates hot patching Linux kernel with no reboot needed
- Dana Blankenhorn: How big can Ubuntu get?
- Time and talent are the open source speed limits
Nate McFeters: Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack explained
Silicon Alley Insider: Google’s Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million A Year
Christopher Dawson: Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home…yeah, great idea, Nick No cell phone for NYC school kids
Heather Clancy: Softchoice screens for green
Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime
- TechCrunch: Amateur Hour Over At Twitter?
3Tera proposes ‘cloudware’ architecture
ReadWriteWeb: So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What’s the Next Frontier?
Richard Koman: 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicion
GigaOm: Comcast Is Serious About Wireless
Josh Taylor: Canon’s new Vixia HF10: The best (and first) camcorder I’ve ever owned
Steve O’Hear: Second Life appoints new CEO with “rare and unusual passion for Second Life”
Kingsley-Hughes: MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh? News.com: Interview: Microsoft’s Rob Bennett defends DRM decision
Roland Piquepaille: Two robotic jellyfish, AquaJell
y and AirJelly
VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy
Janice Chen: Ricoh announces G600 ruggedized camera in the U.K.
John Carroll: Live Mesh: Microsoft hews to open standards rule
- Phil Wainewright: Meshing the desktop into the cloud
Ballmer: We don’t need Yahoo and we aren’t raising our bid
Jason Perlow: Of course you realize, this means war.
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