April 29th, 2008
News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
Notable headlines:
David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack?
IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
- Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale
- Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Does a Yahoo proxy war add up?
Nate McFeters: Developers at fault? SQL Injection attacks lead to wide-spread compromise of IIS servers
Ed Burnette: Hardy Heron is hardly a snap Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will the “12:00 flashers” change Linux?
- Christopher Dawson: “Don’t tell them that I love it”
- Paula Rooney: Reiser found guilty of first degree murder; Reiser 4 fate sealed
- Jason Perlow: Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us
- Dana Blankenhorn: Windows or open source is not the question
- Content Consumer: The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Matthew Miller: SplashMoney for Windows Mobile Image Gallery (right): SplashMoney for Windows Mobile
Kingsley-Hughes: Effects of XP SP3 update on gaming
Mashable: Jajah Telephony Lands Yahoo as First Client
TechRepublic: Backward compatibility problems have long plagued Microsoft Office users
Garett Rogers: Google Product Search gets a bit smarter
Tom Foremski: Where’s the next new thing in Silicon Valley?
Steve O’Hear: Can Twitter go mainstream? Larry Dignan: Are Twitterers Tworons?
Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition
Dennis Howlett: Zoho’s pivot and macro capabilities: tipping point? Ryan Stewart: Bungee integrates with the power of Amazon EC2
SAP Business By Design likely to be delayed
TechCrunch: Xobni’s Secret Project: Merge Outlook With Yahoo Mail
Gizmodo: Exclusive Video: Psystar in the Wild
Christopher Dawson: Is Google locking up historical works?
Michael Krigsman: SAP’s CTO (right): Business knows ‘what’, IT knows ‘how’
Silicon Alley Insider: Launching The SAI 25: The World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups
Dana Blankenhorn: Study calls robot the better surgeon
Heather Clancy: Turns out it’s harder to be green when you have a lot of green
Verizon’s first quarter on target; Wireless shines
Silicon Alley Insider: Cox Buys Ad Network Adify For $300M
Microsoft lands Democratic National Convention, ties Google in convention race
Jason O’Grady: Apple bumps top iMac to 3.06GHz
DigiTimes: Asustek plans to make Eee an independent brand, 10- and 11-inch Eee PCs on the way
Joe McKendrick: Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexity
Paul Murphy: RPG, PHP, and historyPhil Wainewright: Intuit ente
rs the PaaS wars
Images: What’s up in Microsoft’s Office Labs News.com: Searching for ways to improve Office
Andrew Nusca: Intel releases 2.5 GHz, 45nm ‘Yorkfield’ Core 2 Quad processor
Roland Piquepaille: Road signs for physicians
59% of internet users use social media to vent about customer-care experience
Is Balkanization of the Internet inevitable?
TechCrunch: Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating
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