May 22nd, 2008
News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP
Notable headlines:
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple?
Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory
John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU
EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and Twitter
Jason Perlow: Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
Ryan Naraine: Cisco plugs holes in Voice Portal, SSH implementation
- iCal vulnerabilities put Mac OS X users at risk
- Dancho Danchev: No security software, no E-banking fraud claims for you
TechRepublic: 10 things you should do near the end of a project
Heather Clancy: Fade to black: Software shuts down servers 
automatically to conserve electricity
Photos: OLPC’s new $75 XO-2 laptop (right)
Jason O’Grady: Apple’s Mighty Mouse sued over name
- Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates
- DOD gunning to nix Apple-PA Semi deal?
- Napster gunning for iTunes with DRM-free music
Michael Krigsman: SAP’s Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum
Phil Wainewright: ByDesign, the younger person’s ERP
Boy Genius Report: Exclusive Pics of the Palm Treo 850
Reuters: Salesforce.com profit rises, revenue up 52 percent
Harry Fuller: Holy power supply, batman, how soon does crude oil hit $150 per barrel?
Coding Horror: PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter
Richard Koman: Office to support ODF, PDF as ‘first-class citizens’
News.com: Microsoft boosts support for rival formats in Office
Larry Dignan: Can Nortel pull an AMD on Cisco?
Christopher Dawson: Another reason to ban cell phones in school?
Silicon Alley Insider: Barry Diller Explains The New IAC: “Our Workshop” (IACI)
AP: Proposal may ease cancellation fees for cell phone users
Janice Chen: Eye-Fi’s new SD memory cards add geotagging and Wi-Fi to any digital camera
Dana Blankenhorn: Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
- Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
Denise Howell: Stanford Information Law Symposium
Review: Motorola Q9c (Verizon Wireless)
Dana Gardner: ZoomInfo spins off ‘bizographic’ platform for controlled circulation online advertising play
Splunk goes virtual, unveils broad IT search capabilities for Citrix XenServer
Roland Piquepaille: A robotic brain-computer interface
Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft wants to “buy” your searches - but are they for sale?
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looks to buy search share (again)
- News.com: Microsoft’s new tack: Bribery as a business model
- Techmeme
Senators weigh China’s new laws on Web censorship
Matthew Miller: Did you know your N-Gage games are locked to a single device?
TechCrunch: SmallWorlds Brings a Third Dimension to Web 2.0HP’s Hurd: U.S. demand ’spotty’; Data center, app consolidation continues
Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn’t taint Ruby
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