September 5th, 2008
News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list
- Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
Mary Jo Foley: Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?
- The question that won’t go away: What comes after Yahoo?
- First ‘Fiji’ Media Center systems start rolling out
- Ed Bott: Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA
- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
Sam Diaz: Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?
WSJ: Dell plans to sell factories to save costs
Office 2.0 coverage:
- Sam Diaz: Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- Google’s Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Oliver Marks: Office 2.0 Conference day one
- Dion Hinchcliffe: Ten leading platforms for creating online communities
EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com
Joshua Greenbaum: Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
PaidContent.org: Samsung Looking At Buying Digital Memory Company SanDisk
Jason Perlow: Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
Paul Murphy: From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
Phil Wainewright: Zuora gets PayPal president on board
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How important is boot performance?
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Sean Portnoy: Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi
- Larry Dignan: Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling
- Richard Koman: Comcast challenges FCC authority
- Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit
Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley’s gender gap
MacRumors: Apple Rejecting Apps Based on ‘Limited Utility’
Google: Update to Google Chrome’s terms of service
- Dennis Howlett: Google’s incomplete EULA climbdown
- Garett Rogers: Google Chrome already beating Opera
- Zack Whittaker: IE8’s “best” feature broken: stick with Firefox
- Joe McKendrick: Analyst: Google Chrome ‘SOA ready’
- Richard Koman: Chrome’s new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user content
Sean Portnoy: Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling
PC World: Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops From November
Ryan Stewart: Are we “done” with rich Internet applications?
Dennis Howlett: SocialCast: enterprise Twitter/FriendFeed mashup
Video: Political party playlists
Larry Dignan: Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants
Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Storm goes into TA (technical acceptance) at Verizon, delayed 3-4 weeks
Matthew Miller: Qik streaming service comes to HTC Windows Mobile devices
Jason O’Grady: Is this Tuesday’s 4G nano?
Dana Blankenhorn: My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook
- Dell’s Mini packs Ubuntu, XP; Vodafone to sell it
- Linux netbook buyers are cheap and plentiful
- Dan Kusnetzky: Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates
- John Morris: Sony announces three all-in-one desktops
Sony Vaio JS190J (silver)
John Carroll: The power of standard protocols
Andrew Mager: Microsoft’s Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0
Dan Kusnetzky: Red Hat acquires Qumranet
Christopher Dawson: What can we do better?
NYT: Does Windows Still Matter?
Roland Piquepaille: How plants grow under the ground
Dana Blankenhorn: Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor
Heather Clancy: Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
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.
