August 21st, 2008
News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme
IDF wrap:
- Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today
- Jason Hiner: New Intel chipset lays the foundation for sub-$200 desktops
- Larry Dignan: Intel’s roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?
- Gallery: Intel Developer Forum–the future is here
- IDF video: Intel demos quad-core notebooks
- John Morris: About Atom: Intel’s big plans for its little chip
- Sam Diaz: Intel announces parallel coding tools
- Yahoo and Intel’s Web TV widget could be the winner
- Mary Jo Foley: Intel backs Microsoft’s concurrent-computing play
- John Morris: The news on Intel’s Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next
- Christopher Dawson: Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)
- Intel unveils Nehalem ‘turbo mode’
- VentureBeat: IDF: Katzenberg shows the future of 3D film
- Video: Intel touts Moorestown ‘mobile’ chip
Ed Burnette: Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid
Ed Bott: Why do you want WinFS?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The layered approach … my wish for a future OS
- Mary Jo Foley: WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 client
- Windows: You say major; I say minor
Ryan Naraine: Can Adobe mitigate ‘clipboard hijack’ issue?
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Opera patches 7 vulnerabilities but keeps one a secret
- Open source and the ‘fear factor’ mentality
- Jennifer Leggio: Identity theft for the hip blogger on-the-go?
- Dancho Danchev: SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
Dennis Howlett: Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Dana Blankenhorn: Third party support, threat or menace?
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?
Bloomberg: Comcast to Slow Some Web Traffic for Up to 20 Minutes
- Richard Koman: FCC issues ‘radical’ order re: Comcast
Deb Perelman: Oh, really? Report says techies don’t care much about salary.
- Zack Whittaker: UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed
Webware: Microsoft launches 3D wonder Photosynth for consumersTom Steinert-Threlkeld: Remote Control Combat: Publicity For Simplicity
Heather Clancy: BigFix makes government’s power management mandate more palatable
Dennis Howlett: ModelSheet: good in theory, needs more work
Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 looking like a November release
Kingsley-Hughes: Mozilla getting ready to push Firefox 3.0.1 on 2.0 users
NYT: Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle
- Matthew Miller: Q&A with Palm on the Palm Treo Pro reveals a few cool features
- Engadget: Palm Treo Pro unboxing and hands-on
Review: Microsoft SideWinder X5 Mouse
Jason O’Grady: Apple discontinues MobileMe status blog
- USA Today: Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
Paula Rooney: Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Blankenhorn: Novell as Microsoft’s client state
- Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership
- Jason Perlow: The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Paul Murphy: Open Source, Dtrace, and tuning
Larry Dignan: Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
Dana Blankenhorn: Hyperic gets on Google’s cloud
Matthew Miller: Palm Treo Pro officially announced, will come to U.S. as unlocked model only
Harry Fuller: Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
John Carroll: HD and region-specific encodings
Roland Piquepaille: Nanospheres moving faster than light?
Phil Wainewright: SaaS mashups shape up
Janice Chen: Ricoh’s new R10 wide compact camera helps you snap perfectly level shots
American Airlines kicks off in-flight Internet service
GigaOM: HillCrest Labs: Nintendo’s Wii Infringing Our Patents
Dan Kusnetzky: Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
Silicon Alley Insider: Citi On RIM BlackBerry Bold: Thumbs Up, Mostly
eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing
Search engine of the day: Diaroogle
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