October 7th, 2008
News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme
Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD’s Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments
Ryan Naraine: iPhone hits another security speedbump
Dennis Howlett: Startups listen up: you’ve got a pricing problem
Ed Bott: Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to Windows
- Joe Brockmeier: You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- Paula Rooney: October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- Jason Hiner: The top five reasons why Windows Vista fai
led - TechRepublic: A “no hassle” Linux install for VMware Workstation 6.5
Reviews: Lenovo ThinkPad SL400
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts sharing details on SQL Server ‘Kilimanjaro’
TechCrunch: AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month
Larry Dignan: MozyPro for Mac goes public beta
Adam O’Donnell: Talkback Tuesday: Mobile Malware
Larry Dignan: SAP: Business drop was ’sudden and unexpected’; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- Dennis Howlett: SAP: first to hit the buffers
eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
TechRepublic: Preparing to deploy the new BlackBerry Bold
Sam Diaz: iPhone sales: 10 million yet? Techmeme
Jason O’Grady: Apple manufactures 10M iPhones
- iPhone 2.2 features trickle out
- Test drive: First checkpoint-friendly computer bag
- Eight ways to track your portfolio on the iPhone
Zack Whittaker: Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- Tom Foremski: Bill Gates Leaving Might Help Mend Silicon Valley Fences
Oliver Marks: The Secrets of CEOs
Sam Diaz: Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?
60 Minutes: Wall Street’s Shadow Market
Dana Gardner: With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management
The Social: Analyst: Half of ‘social media campaigns’ will flopSteve O’Hear: LinkedIn and Xing set to benefit from downturn?
John Carroll: Mono 2.0…why not Microsoft?
Jason Perlow: A Consumer Electronics Carol
Gallery: Concepts on parade at Paris Motor Show
Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth
Dana Blankenhorn: IBM and social networking
FSF issues WorldLabel challenge for regular hack-a-thons
Sean Portnoy: CEATEC Roundup: Sony’s 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp’s solar-power TV, Panasonic’s LifeWall concept
John Morris: Sony AW series: The best laptop display?
Andrew Nusca: Blackberry Storm, ‘Application Center’ info leaked
- Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #149, Netbook talk, WiMAX available, new phones in the house
- CrackBerry.com: Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Application Center!
PC World: Apple Doesn’t Need Jobs, Analyst Says
Michael Krigsman: Improve your failed IT culture
Paul Murphy: A question about web server volume failuresPaul Miller: Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
Roland Piquepaille: Discovering Venice with a CINeSPACE device
Richard Koman: Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies
- RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north
- Copyright Board’s ringtone decision shows failure of the system
Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
Christopher Dawson: The cloud finally comes to education
Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing
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.
