May 7th, 2008
News to know: Vista troubleshooting, RIM, XP SP3, Apple, SAP
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery]
David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark?
Larry Dignan: Cisco third quarter ’steady’
SAP Sapphire:
- RIM’s Balsillie: ‘Not religious’ about form factors; B2B the company’s core
- Apotheker goes for theatrics; Kagermann the details
- SAP aims to make upgrades easier; Rolls out enhancement packages; Touts analytics
- Joshua Greenbaum: Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?
- Dennis Howlett: SAP BPM - business fail
- Joe McKendrick: Goodbye real-time era, hello ‘event-driven’ era
Matthew Miller: Update your Twitter feed by voice with Twitterfone
Gallery: Psystar unboxing, innerds, maiden boot [right]
WSJ: Sprint Nears Deal With ClearwireJavaOne:
- Dan Farber: JavaOne: Sun rolls out JavaFX
- Video: Sun demos JavaFX platform
- Dana Gardner: Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Paula Rooney: Oracle: ‘We just don’t care’ about Sun-MySQL Merger’
- Oracle architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft releases Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center Mary Jo Foley: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update
Nathan McFeters: Can I interest you in a glass of Berry Blue Kool-Aid?: A recap of Microsoft Blue Hat v7 [with gallery, right] 
My OS is the best OS because …
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source as the villain in its own story
The Boy Genius Report: Apple and AT&T to launch iPhone 3G a lot sooner than we think?
Dan Kusnetzky: ClearCube Spins off VDIworks
Nate McFeters: House of Hackers social community opens up
Jason O’Grady: VMware releases public beta of Fusion 2.0
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft postpones Hotmail-Outlook Express cut-off
Boomtown: Andreessen to Facebook Board?
John Carroll: Why I didn’t like “Microhoo”
VentureBeat: LinkedIn may — and should — use its new funding to go after the business software market
John Morris: After a slow start, quad-core is catching on
Roland Piquepaille: A new robotic tasting device
Matthew Miller: The HTC Diamond takes Windows Mobile to the next level. Photos: HTC’s Touch Diamond phone
- Zune desktop 2.5 released with TV shows and social improvements
- Foley: Microsoft delivers a first piece of ‘Zune VideoX’ via new Zune update
- Yahoo! Go 3.0 beta finally arrives on Windows Mobile
- HTC announces the Diamond with 3D TouchFLO
Ryan Stewart: Popfly Game Creator
Paula Rooney: Oracle developing grid management, chargeback features for Oracle VM
Dana Blankenhorn: Nanny state resentment is universal
Garett Rogers: Google Reader lets users do micro-blogging
Michael Krigsman: IT politics killed White House email project
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