June 16th, 2008

News to know: Open source adventures; Jerry Yang; IBM; Digital TV

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:18 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Digital Television, IBM Corp., Open Source, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Notable headlines:

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 2 Gallery (right).

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

• Jason Perlow: The reality TV series we all really want to watch
• Dana Blankenhorn: Closed spectrum means closed source

Nate McFeters: Black Hat ‘08 preview webcast on its way

• Planes, trains, and automobiles

Reuters: Icahn says Yahoo-Google ad deal has merit

• Larry Dignan: Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?
• Dan Farber: The Yahoo + Google - Microsoft spin room
• NYT: Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby
• Boomtown: On Yahoo’s Shaky Future: Well Said
• John Carroll: The end of Microhoo
• Tom Foremski: Build a better search engine then what?
• Dana Blankenhorn: Yahoo’s open source guru walks out

TechRepublic: Sanity check: Will technology empower Gen Y to wipe away our institutions?

• Use Excel’s Lookup functions to search a database

Zack Whittaker: The most comprehensive police database: Facebook

• Students to design, create and launch satellite
• Virtualise your life - mixing mobility and cloudivity. Gallery (right)

Heather Clancy: IBM is latest to ask: Why not take that data center to go?

• Check out this Tibco-powered energy consumption stats site
• HP cranks up the heat on sustainable IT research work
• Harry Fuller: Climate changing, political climate unchanged

DailyTech: Palm Expects to Ship 2 Million Centro Smartphones

Silicon Alley Insider: FCC Staff Signs Off On XM, Sirius; Satellite Still Screwed

Dana Gardner: Kapow takes a jab at challenge of creating mashups from JavaScript and AJAX sources

• SOA Software, iTKO team up to offer SOA lifecycle management and QA
• Etelos puts more ’sass’ into SaaS with four additional hosted Web 2.0 offerings
• 6th Sense Analytics adds new features for collecting development productivity metrics

Christopher Dawson: Physical security - laptops or desktops

• Arranging your computer labs

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Rik Fairlie: Why does the new iPhone use old Wi-Fi technology?

Oliver Marks: Enterprise 2.0 conference ‘Launch pad’ contest winners

• Searching for definition

Roland Piquepaille: A 30-picowatt processor for sensors

• A graphical interface to medical knowledge
• Pigeons are as clever as 3-year-old children

Garett Rogers: Is your ISP throttling your network connection?

• Google Docs now has a PDF viewer

Ars Technica: IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla

Paul Murphy: Continuous prototyping

BrandWeek: Army Imitates Apple To Draw New Recruits

Matthew Miller: One week with the HTC Touch Diamond; panoramic photos, VGA, and more experiences

• Dan Kusnetzky: Repair of my HTC Advantage Part 4

Dana Blankenhorn: Another way to build open source databases

Dennis Howlett: Oracle OpenWorld invitation to bloggers: fail

Images: NASA’s new spacesuit designs–and old ones, too

Jennifer Leggio: MySpace announces redesign; fights for credibility with adults Steve O’Hear: MySpace makeover announced

Richard Koman: Do Congressmen’s charges of Chinese hacking hold water?

• Nextel: ‘We can’t charge government those termination fees’
• Is Canada’s new copyright law a northern DMCA?

David Morgenstern: Why is the market hammering Apple?