August 6th, 2008
News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with ‘Fiji’?
Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.
- LinuxWorld video: Health care IT solutions
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch on going stateless
- Dana Blankenhorn: LiMo, dude, where’s my Internet?
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
Larry Dignan: Yahoo: Our board a lot less loved today Boomtown: The Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Like Florida, Except More Confusing!
Larry Dignan: Cisco’s quarter clears hurdles; Outlook murky but close enough
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft makes daring vulnerability sharing move
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn’t always mean better performance. Gallery@right.
Jason Perlow: Are you a Dog or a Cat?
Dennis Howlett: Dell’s ‘Cloud Computing’ and other strange stuff
TechRepublic: Deciphering the term “Cloud Computing”
Zack Whittaker: Why x86 is perfectly fine for now
VentureBeat: Google Search Appliance gets bigger, better, stores 10M docs in a box
San Francisco Chronicle: Lost laptop found in SFO office
Chris Brogan: When Google Owns You
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Indictments Are Nice, More Arrests Much Nicer
Phil Wainewright: Amazon funds Elastra’s enterprise cloud push
Reuters: UPDATE - Priceline posts higher net income, but shares fall
Andrew Mager: Zittrain explains the future of technology
Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and DoubleClick: Old news with a new press release
Silicon Alley Insider: Comcast Buys DailyCandy For $125 Million*
Christopher Dawson: Should colleges really teach hacking?
Jason O’Grady: App Store find: Food IQ
- Andrew Mager: I Am Rich is the most expensive iPhone app
- Waterfield announces two slipcases for iPhone
- Matthew Miller: Is copy and paste really needed on the iPhone?
- Did the iPhone 2.0.1 update improve the 3G/EDGE auto switching?
Photos: Back-to-school shopping list (right)
Mitch Ratcliffe: Cerf’s all for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
Michael Krigsman: Segway recalls transporters over software problem
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failure
- Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail
- Jason O’Grady: Apple: Shut down MobileMe immediately
Andrew Nusca: MIT team working on $12 ‘Apple II’ desktop
Christopher Dawson: Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
Heather Clancy: Holy cow, Batman, it’s a Platinum-level green data center!
Jennifer Leggio: Cutting + pasting + blogging = trouble
Dana Gardner: Sybase rides growing database business into mobility innovation, says Chen at user conference
- Amazon invests in cloud deployment venture as Elastra raises another $12 million
- Joe McKendrick: Greg the SOA architect is ‘flattened’!
John Morris: The lowdown on Intel’s Larrabee
News.com: Apple holds on to U.S. retail music lead
AP: News Corp 4Q profit jumps 27 percent
Paul Miller: The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life
Matt Asay: What copyright costs us
Consumer Reports: 7 online blunders
Garett Rogers: Google has Olympic fever
Paul Murphy: It’s not good for everything, therefore it’s not good for anything
Richard Koman: ‘Making available’ argument rapidly dying well-deserved death
- On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct
- Cablevision, part 2: Is RS-DVR like a VCR or a copy shop?
- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copyin
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Roland Piquepaille: World’s first wind-powered vehicle race
Photos: More spins from the Oshkosh air show
Steve O’Hear: Malware arrives - proof that Twitter is nearing mainstream?
Larry Dignan: Delta rolls out Wi-Fi across U.S. fleet
- AT&T joins the cloud computing game
- Friendster gets new CEO, $20 million in funding and a focus on Asia
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