May 5th, 2008
News to know: MicroNoHoo, OpenSolaris, 10 reasons for IT failure; Apple
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs
- Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it’s a good move
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft takes its ball and leaves Yahoo on the Web 2.0 playground
- Dan Farber: Yang betting on Y!Open to save Yahoo!
- Dana Gardner: What MicroNoHoo means for enterprises
- Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?
- Paul Murphy: Effect on Yahoo will be debilitating
- Techmeme, ZDNet blog focus, Microsoft statement, Yahoo response, News.com roundup
- Yang response
Paula Rooney: Commercial OpenSolaris ships
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- Enomaly’s open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud
- Dana Blankenhorn: The cloud era and open source
- Christopher Dawson: Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machines
- Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
Jason O’Grady: AT&T disables free Wi-Fi for iPhone users
Nathan McFeters: Morse Code Rickroll 0-day… no, seriously, I mean it
Heather Clancy: Power cord clutter: A picture is worth a thousand word
TechRepublic: Can presentation layer abstraction ever replace desktop and Web apps?
Matthew Miller: Weekend hacking: Athena Project 4.0 on the HTC Advantage
Dan Farber: YouTube disappears from the screen temporarily
Roland Piquepaille: Extracting the structure of n
etworks
Images: Saturn’s beauty and the beast
Dave Greenfield: Dialcom: Web Conferencing that Works
Jason O’Grady: Web app: Best iPhone weather
Joshua Greenbaum: SAP’s Business ByDesign: Explaining the Delays
- SAP to run apps native on RIM’s BlackBerry
- Phil Wainewright: SAP’s SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe
Michael Krigsman: Sleazy sales and the Rockwell Retro Encabulator
Ars Technica: Intel: “Web 2.0″-style cloud computing just a passing vapor
Threat Level: What’s Up with the Secret Cybersecurity Plans, Senators Ask DHS
Paul Murphy: Questioning IT
Photos: Flying on a wing and a battery
IT Facts: Fastest-growing search queries in March 2008
- Global PC shipments grew 14.6% to 69.5 mln units in Q1 2008
- Top 5 independent online video sites in US in 2007
- Top mobile phone vendor in Q4 2007: Nokia, Samsung, Motorola
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: GPU shipments fall Q1 ‘08
- 48% see themselves running Windows XP in 2014
Dennis Howlett: Instrumenting social responsibility
AP: Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public
Richard Koman: Amazon.com sues NY over sales tax law
SCO chief testifies: ‘Linux is a copy of Unix’
Dan Kusnetzky: Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and Windows
John Morris: Dell XPS 730 reviews: A Ferrari stuck in traffic
Sun’s open source strategy overshadowed by legacy businesses Will market reject Sun’s open source vision?
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