June 17th, 2008

News to know: Adobe; XP era ends; Enterprise 2.0; Apple

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:15 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management

Notable headlines:

Dancho Danchev: How to recover GPcode encrypted files?

Larry Dignan: Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along

• XP era ends: Will Vista step up? Techmeme
• eBay: New belle of Microsoft’s merger ball?
• MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and ACID 3 compatibility charts - Firefox 3.0 RC 3 and Opera 9.50 added

Joe McKendrick: Are SOA ‘centers of excellence’ luxuries or necessities?

David Morgenstern: Blizzard of Snow Leopard Scat Robin Harris: Apple’s Grand Central threat to Microsoft

Techmeme: Yahoo’s Weiner to Accel; Yahoo’s Decker emails the troops

Zack Whittaker: Students (unaware/don’t care) about music legalities

Photos: Dinosaur Sighting: The original Apple Macintosh Classic

Joshua Greenbaum: Salesforce.com, Partners, and Value-Added SaaS

• Phil Wainewright: Many degrees of multi-tenancy
• Paul Murphy: Literate programming

Michael Krigsman: Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outage

• Selling SOA: Stating the obvious

Dana Gardner: ‘Instant replay’ helps software developers fast-forward to application problem areas

Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0: Lively conversations driving change

TechRepublic: Should IT consultants pay for their stupid mistakes?

Video: Take control of any Windows PC on the Internet with CrossLoop

Dan Kusnetzky: Mokafive Version 1

Photos: Backstage tour of Kennedy Space Center (right)

Mary Jo Foley: Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?

• Dana Blankenhorn: Open source is not a vertical

Heather Clancy: High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology

Matthew Miller: Mobile software Monday: SMS-Chat from VITO Technology

• Nokia announces the coming availability of the E71 and E66 S60 enterprise-focused devices

ReadWriteWeb: 11 Search Trends That May Disrupt GoogleNews.com: $15 to check a bag, but free to charge an iPod

• Jason Perlow: Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screening

AppleInsider: Apple’s open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web

Christopher Dawson: There’s data and then there’s asking for trouble Pigs is pigs and data is data

Survey: WiMax may have enterprise mojo; Unified communications interest (and confusion) abounds

Andrew Nusca: NVIDIA launches the ‘best performing GPU on the planet’

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA unveils the GeForce GTX 200 series
• Gallery (right)

Roland Piquepaille: Nanoscale microscope on a chip

Dana Blankenhorn: Sudden death and the search for answers

• The Internet medium is the political message

Steve O’Hear: MySpace redesign is about ad dollars more than aesthetics

Denise Howell: Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war’s expense

• Dan Farber: Welcome to the Web refactory, AP
• Jonathan Schwartz’s free software foundation

Christopher Dawson: Don’t forget the fan

MediaPost: Web Do-Over: ABC Gives TV Advertisers Makegoods—Online

Meet Jerry Yang, pinata

Dignan’s Memo: AT&T bets big on the iPhone