July 18th, 2008

News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:10 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Keyboards, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Asset Management, Monitors & Displays, Hardware

Notable headlines:

Earnings wrap:

• Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD’s Ruiz steps off the roller coaster
• Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme
• Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations
• Microsoft: $60 billion in annual revenue, but sour 4Q
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD posts seventh straight quarterly loss
• GigaOm: Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried

Dennis Howlett: SAP ‘Mittelstand’ customers upset at new maintenance charges

Nate McFeters: Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Zack Whittaker: Diary of a dial-up user (part 4 )

Oliver Marks: GE’s Enterprise Collaboration Backbone

Heather Clancy: Techie’s green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers

TechRepublic: Supporting support: Where does the help desk fit in your IT planning?

TechCrunch: GoDaddy’s Domain Registration Totally Screws .me

Review: MSI Wind U100-036LA (white, Windows XP at right) 

Torvalds attacks IT industry ’security circus’

Ryan Naraine: Unpatched code execution bug haunts BlackBerry

Sam Diaz: Silverlight suit: Microsoft’s conduct is ‘unlawful’ and ‘willful’

• Dave Greenfield: How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit

VMWare reprices underwater stock options

Janice Chen: Top digital camera vendors partner to develop new wireless transfer technology

Ryan Stewart: Second version of NASDAQ MarketReplay application released

Paul Murphy: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBMMainframe

Dana Blankenhorn: Open source should support Apple over Psystar

• Is content you can edit open source?

Roland Piquepaille: A solar cooled air-conditioning system

Robin Harris: Super flash, hyper flash

Jennifer Leggio: Twellow mellow about Twitter-Summize deal

• Steve O’Hear: Will Twitter tip in the UK first?
• SheGeeks: Twitter’s New Redesign
• IT Facts: New and returning visitors to social networks in May 2008

BNET: The Top 10 Catalysts for Great IdeasPC World: Have You Fixed Your Company’s DNS Servers?

Photos: Game on at E3: The sequel

Richard Koman: Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail

EU files new charges against Intel

Kingsley-Hughes: Early look at AMD’s Socket G34

Rik Fairlie: D-Link launches new surveillance cam with Powerline networking

Matthew Miller: Opera Mobile 9.5 beta now available for WM touch screen devices

Yahoo: Icahn just a short-termer

Dan Kusnetzky: Citrix and Xen not versus Xen

Andrew Nusca: HP unveils Centrino 2 business tablet PC

Dana Gardner: DaaS solves schools’ Internet parity problem with help from IBM and Desktone

Jason O’Grady: More iPhone 3G observations

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone as powerful as the Dreamcast, more powerful than the DS … but is the interface the weak link?

John Carroll: Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging Google

Sony brings better pricing and more digital content from E3 2008