May 28th, 2008
News to know: Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer; Microsoft's Windows Advisor; Flash Zero Day; Linux vs MSND
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies new ‘don’t blame Windows’ tool
And Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer @D6
- Vista Team blog: Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch
- News.com: Gates and Ballmer at D6: The movie
- News.com: Windows 7 demo at D6: Really? That’s it?
- Mary Jo Foley: See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touch
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week? Touch
- News.com: Windows chief talks ‘7’
- What we do know about Windows 7
- What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 info starts to trickle out of Microsoft
- Larry Dignan: Microsoft is hellbent on bringing touch to you
- Ed Bott: Vista screams past XP in gaming tests
Jason Perlow: Linux Users: no MSDN downloads for you!
Christopher Dawson: Asus EBOX may be just what we’re looking forRyan Naraine: Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wild
- Nate McFeters: Scam calls… something we’ve forgot about?
- Motorola RAZR vulnerable, what’s up with Motorola’s update process?
- Cisco confirms possibility of IOS rootkits
- Larry Dignan: Yahoo sues ‘lottery’ spammers; Good luck collecting
- Dancho Danchev: Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3 RC2 on tap, final ship in mid June
Techrepublic: IT Dojo: Quickly map drive letters in Windows XP with SUBST, PUSHD, and POPD
Robin Harris: Put some IT pros in jail
Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft
Michael Krigsman: Moody’s software bug screws investors
David Morgenstern: More notes on the active-passive noise cancellation debate
Joe McKendrick: What’s stopping vendors from offering SOA from the cloud?
- Promises, promises: the elusive user-assembled app dream
- Cloud computing’s earthly bonds
Rough Type: Miasma computing — The metaphor of “the cloud” is a seductive one …
Dennis Howlett: Google’s obfuscation on privacy
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #134, Mobius, the Advantage X7510 and Opera Mobile 9.5Roland Piquepaille: Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
Financial Times: Web 2.0 fails to produce cash
Google: The Google Mini gets a Not-so-mini Upgrade
Ryan Stewart: Mobile advertising: “The next big wave” and a golden opportunity for RIAs
Kingsley-Hughes: Don’t go buying high-end graphics cards to power the next-gen Photoshop
Ripping vs. Transcoding. Gallery right.
Andrew Nusca: VCR converts old tapes to digital video (yes, you read correctly)
- Amazon Kindle back on the market and it’s $40 cheaper
- Amazon Kindle - Now $359
Dennis Howlett: VITAL Phreadz
Oliver Marks: Enterprise 2.0 Boston platinum pass competition!
Bits: Liberty Pulls Back from Vongo Internet Movie Service
Jason O’Grady: Gallery: Sydney Apple Store facade
Heather Clancy: Linux green activists unite!
Gizmodo: Intel’s Centrino 2 Platform Delayed (Upshot: No New MacBooks at WWDC)
Matthew Miller: Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th
Dana Blankenhorn: We got your microtransactions
right here
Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again? Gallery right.
Steve O’Hear: Facebook to open source its developer platform?
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