June 12th, 2008

News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 1:00 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services

Notable headlines:

Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery (right).

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype

• About those Windows XP ‘upgrades’ from Vista …

Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective: Patrick Slesinger, Wallem

Dancho Danchev: Fake ImageShack site serving malware, links distributed over IM

• Proof of Concept “carpet bombing” exploit released in the wild

Jennifer Leggio: Could life streaming make the corporate newsletter obsolete?

• LinkedIn Company Groups create privacy concerns
  

Mozilla: Coming Tuesday, June 17th: Firefox 3

Heather Clancy: Shifting the load? Sun studies energy consumption implications of telecommuting

Christopher Dawson: Will it work with Office?

• Paul Murphy: Openoffice vs Microsoft Office

Dan Farber: Eric Schmidt in conversation with Ken Auletta

Joe McKendrick: You have SOA answers; we have questions

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Snow Leopard to leave PowerPC users out in the cold?

• What would (or did) it take for you to switch operating systems?
• Dana Blankenhorn: iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door
• David Morgenstern: What not to do: Fool around with SyncServices

Josh Taylor: Father’s Day gifts for gadget freaks. Gallery (right)

Zack Whittaker: See your potential future salaries

• Hey genius, they want you.

Techrepublic: Sanity check: Will IT 2.0 eliminate the geeks or spawn a new breed?

• Create your own custom Windows Vista Control Panel
• Podcast: Communication tips that improve end-user/IT relations

AppleInsider: Apple’s App Store could emerge as $1.2B business by 2009

TechCrunch: Jeff Weiner’s Departure From Yahoo Imminent, Speculation on Successor Begins

Larry Dignan: Intel plays show and tell: Environment, visual computing (multi)core themes

• Internet ad spend up 8.5 percent in first quarter

Dana Blankenhorn: What value in the Red Hat patent guarantee?

• Red Hat settles patent suit
• Embedded market keeping SFLC busy as in BusyBox

Review: Samsung Q1 Ultra PremiumReuters: Starbucks and AT&T reach deal with T-Mobile

Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook Now Endorsing Apps “You May Like”

Matthew Miller: Samsung announces the OMNIA Windows Mobile device with 5 megapixel camera

• HP should be shipping the iPAQ 900 series Mobile Messenger soon

Joe McKendrick: Microsoft signs onto Unified Modeling Language for SOA

Roland Piquepaille: Testing new transistors in space

Dana Gardner: Live TIBCO panel examines role and impact of service performance management in enterprise SOA deployments

John Carroll: Lessons from American university education

News.com: Turning the TV into a ‘social-media center’

Firefox 3.0 RC3 available for download

Dan Kusnetzky: ManageIQ releases EVM 2.0

Google’s Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?