May 14th, 2008
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
Notable headlines:
Dennis Howlett: Zoho’s Googley login raises interesting questions
Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It’s all about the drivers
News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list’ tool after Gawker exposes it
Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7
- Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
Craigslist fires back at eBay; Bogus Google ads to Kijiji alleged
Larry Dignan: HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?
- EDS internal memo on the HP purchase
- Dennis Howlett: HP’s to-do list following EDS acquisition
- Dana Blankenhorn: Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft’s IBM?
- Dana Gardner: Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s)
- Michael Krigsman: EDS’ troubled legacy of failed IT projects
- Paul Murphy: Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making
- HP’s bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom
Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches
- Nate McFeters: Details, details, details… more on the Microsoft flaws from today
- McAfee isn’t “McAfee Secure” or “Hacker Safe”
- Dancho Danchev: A U.S military botnet in the works
- Gallery: Saving your data from nuke attack
David Morgenstern: The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
CIO Sessions: Tasty Baking CIO: Brendan O’Malley
- Tasty Baking’s new LEED factory
- Automating the factory floor
- Starting from scratch at Tasty Baking’s new facility
Christopher Dawson: Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
Tom Foremski: Google grabs for billions in pharma gold…
Opera: Opera Mini — the people’s choice. Matthew Miller:
Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
John Carroll: Greetings from Lesotho
Richard Koman: UK education agency nixes OOXML
Heather Clancy: First, a game of green. Then, fade to black
Paul Miller: A new take on ‘Web 3.0′ ?
AP: IAC, Liberty resolve spinoff legal skirmish
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft’s health vision is highly proprietary
TechRepublic: Can Microsoft win over enough developers to change the paradigm?
Icahn reportedly eyes Yahoo proxy fight
Paul Miller: TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect
The Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Thunder, the touchscreen BlackBerry we’ve all been waiting for
Jason O’Grady: Big Steve to keynote WWDC
News.com: StumbleUpon’s Stumble Video adds new content partnersPaula Rooney: VMware debuts premium Recovery, Stage Manager services
John Morris: Microsoft’s plan to block Linux on laptops
Christopher Dawson: New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
Joe McKendrick: SOA market passes $2 billion mark, whatever that means
Silicon Alley Insider: Google Search To Surpass Size of Microsoft Windows in 2009
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could “not so high end” gaming systems tarnish Alienware’s reputation?
No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
Richard Koman: Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
Jason O’Grady: HBO programming comes to iTunes
Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?
Roland Piquepaille: Satellites seeing clearly despite clouds
Phil Wainewright: CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
Andrew Nusca: Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts
Harry Fuller: That Florida beach isn’t just sand, it could be a lot of crap
Garett Rogers: Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
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