August 20th, 2008
News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 wishes
- The Register: A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP
Gallery: Creative uses for USB ports (right)
Larry Dignan: Why there’s a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- Dennis Howlett: A fresh model for software maintenance
Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 to get ‘porn mode’?
- Submit your best, new Microsoft codenames. Win a prize
- Piecing together Microsoft’s cloud-computing vision
TechRepublic: Advice to twentysomethings: Hiring managers don’t want your text messages
Mitch Ratcliffe: eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?
Larry Dignan: HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks
- John Morris: HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD
- Dan Kusnetzky: Conversation with HP’s Roberto Moctezuma
Sam Diaz: Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.
- IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?
- Jason Hiner: Will Intel’s Craig Barrett replace Bill Gates as the new ‘IT industry ambassador’?
- VentureBeat: IDF: Intel thumps its chest on everything from Atom to Nehalem
- Video: Intel chairman highlights partnerships around the world
- Video: Inside the Intel Developer Forum
Ryan Naraine: Android security team appeals to hackers
- Android security team appeals to bug hunters
- Jason O’Grady: Google revs Android SDK
- Paul Murphy: The opportunities in search
- Garett Rogers: New Android SDK finally given to developers
AppleInsider: Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September
NYT: EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model
Webware: Microsoft sees tailored search as way to pierce Google’s armor
Joe McKendrick: Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?
Roland Piquepaille: New algorithm speeds up networks
Heather Clancy: Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process
Richard Koman: Google.org invests in geothermal
Andrew Mager: An Event Apart 2008: Day 2
TechRepublic: 10 security challenges facing closed source software
Michael Krigsman: The triple sins of IT failure
Jason O’Grady: Dell to offer one year warranty extension on GeForce 8600M GT
Dennis Howlett: SEC introduces IDEA
TechCrunch: Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges
Dancho Danchev: Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate 10 gov’t databases
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
Video: Will Facebook apology backfire in a lawsuit?
CIO Sessions: The Weather Channel CIO: Brian Shield
Matthew Miller: BlackBerry Kickstart specs appear on Expansys retailer site
- More photos and a video of the Palm Treo Pro are revealed
- Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses
- SlashGear: Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone
Richard Koman: The 2008 Google(tm) Democratic Convention
- Muxtape has RIAA problems
- Webcasters can’t reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to close
- MIT students ungagged: Judge vacates gag order
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring
Dignan: What’s future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet
Jason O’Grady: Apple releases iPhone 2.0.2, as usual, sans changelog
- Tom Bihn announces first “Checkpoint Friendly” bag
- Overheated iPod nano blamed for three fires
- Apple’s MobileMe: Why don’t we just call it a beta
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar fails to meet court deadline again
Dana Blankenhorn: I am I, GoogQuixote, the lord of free wireless
Fred Wilson: The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation
Dana Gardner: Morph Labs and FiveRuns combine efforts to support, test and monitor Rails apps
Steve O’Hear: Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin
Jennifer Leggio: PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating
Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
