May 13th, 2008
News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services.
Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense?
AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media Player 11 with XP SP3 slipstream ISO
David Morgenstern: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Mac Beta sports new Aqua look Jason O’Grady: More hints that a 3G iPhone is imminent
Garett Rogers: Google releases Reader BETA for iPhone
Nate McFeters: McAfee’s HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it
- Dancho Danchev: Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- Richard Koman: Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down
- Call for military to operate botnet
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5
- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates Foundation
- Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month
- Blackberry users to get Windows Live services. Techmeme
- Ryan Stewart: New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released
- Introducing the User Interface Resource Center
- One Microsoft Way: Gates: Windows 7 will “take less memory, be more efficient”
Jason Perlow: Novell to Sun: Here’s an offer you can’t refuse
Michael Krigsman: FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk “IT subversion” and failure
Janice Chen: Big memory cards keep getting cheaper; get the best deals at discount stores and online
AppleInsider: AT&T now showing “iPhone Black” model in device listing
Robert Scoble: Twittering the earthquake in China
ReadWriteWeb: Google Friend Connect Tries to Strangle the Social
Dana Blankenhorn: Sourceforge missing community manager opportunity
- Vermedx diabetes system wins Texas trial
- Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?
- Is wireless mesh a game-changer?
TechRepublic: 10 things you should do near the end of a project
Dana Gardner: SOA Software acquires respository and governance vendor LogicLibrary
Paul Miller: Powerset shows semantic search solution
Roland Piquepaille: The physics of flocking in 3-D
David Morgenstern: PrinterSetup project for CUP. Jason O’Grady: The Mac desktop, set to music
Sprint’s inferno: Churn baby churn
- Matthew Miller: Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting. Image Gallery: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting applications (right)
Andrew Nusca: AMD announces low-power quad-core chips
Dan Kusnetzky: True Server Virtualization
Paul Murphy: The application interface problem
Fortune: Apple and Eve
ReadWriteWeb: Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
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