May 1st, 2008
News to know: Microhoo; Adobe; MacBook Air; OLPC; RIAA
Notable headlines:
Microsoft: We’ll raise our bid for Yahoo, but can’t make up our mind yet. Techmeme
Jason O’Grady: Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air
Ryan Stewart: Adobe Open Screen Project
Dan Farber: IBM and the resurrection of the mainframe
Michael Krigsman: Volvo recall due to airbag software problems
Dennis Howlett: Why social software won’t dethrone the incumbents
Christopher Dawson: Is Stallman right about OLPC?
Richard Koman: Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision The end of RIAA litigation
Video: The machines for making TVs
SAP confirms Business ByDesign delay
- CNBC: SAP America’s president should offer media training
- Joshua Greenbaum: The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now
Mary Jo Foley: Office streaming: What Microsoft will and won’t say
Phil Wainewright: Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launch
Ars Technica: An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush’s lost e-mails
NYT: EBay-Craigslist Fight Is About Kijiji and Control, Complaint Shows
TechRepublic: Interop Las Vegas roundup
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Boy, I’m glad I didn’t waste my money on a Psystar OpenComputer!
Dana Gardner: TIBCO proactive management approach enables SOA performance delivery as a managed service
- TIBCO puts infrastructure pieces in place for cloud compute-caliber SOA
- Ryan Stewart: Tibco planning to use Silverlight
Bizarre merger of the day: United Online buys FTD GroupCNBC: Exclusive Interview With Google’s Eric Schmidt
AOL’s ad revenue growth stalls
- Steve O’Hear: Can AOL solve the UGC and advertising problem?
- GigaOm: Time Warner Begins Death by 1,000 Cuts
Janice Chen: SeaLife Announces DC800 8 megapixel waterproof Camera
Garett Rogers: Google looking to map the abyss
News.com: Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
Harry Fuller: Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room? Heather Clancy: Maybe ‘lean’ and not ‘green’ should be the rallying cry
Paula Rooney: SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports
Qumranet’s SolidICE ships as Citrix XenDesktop debut nears
Dan Kusnetzky: Betas of Microsoft’s management tools announced
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight ‘agenda’
Photos: UAVs land in the Smithsonian (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Crytek: We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin
IAC: Shareholder value or money pit?
Dana Blankenhorn: Can assistive technology save computing?
Roland Piquepaille: Cellphones used for medical imaging?
Andrew Nusca: Sharp to offer ultra-thin X-Series LCD TVs with wireless HD feed
Matthew Miller: Even an unlocked 3G iPhone will still be an AT&T iPhone
Sorry folks, the T-Mobile 3G rumor may only apply to voice
Forums aflame over ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ freeze
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