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News to know: Macworld; Your Gmail on iPhone surprise; Patches; Intel

Posted in General, News to know (January 16, 2008 at 6:30 pm)

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Macworld coverage:

Ed Burnette: Time Capsule works with PCs too
Garett Rogers: New iPhone update will confuse and upset many Gmail users
Larry Dignan: Steve Jobs’ performance: The big takeaways
Apple delivers iPhone, iPod touch and QuickTime fixes with Macworld updates
Jason O’Grady: Live: Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2008
David Morgenstern: A tale of two keynotes
Dan Farber: The […]

News to know: Vista SP1; XO on Sugar; Macworld preview; AMD; KDE gallery

Posted in General, News to know (January 14, 2008 at 7:00 pm)

Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: About-face: Microsoft makes new Vista SP1 test build public
Christopher Dawson: Hands on with the XO Sugar OS. Gallery (left). OLPC America
David Morgenstern: Apple walks on water and WiMax Mobile. Jason O’Grady: MWSF08: ‘Something in the air’ banner spotted.
Garett Rogers: iGoogle for iPhone released, and it’s pretty good
Eco-Patent Commons shares earth-friendly […]

News to know: Microsoft revolving door; QuickTime flaw; NetSuite; CES; Online ads

Posted in General, News to know (January 12, 2008 at 7:24 pm)

Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Why Google, Yahoo and Microsoft should worry about Countrywide’s takeunder
Mary Jo Foley: Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes. Another of the Microsoft old guard moves on.
Dennis Howlett: Netsuite nightmares: part deux
Larry Dignan: Another QuickTime code execution flaw surfaces. Oracle plans 27 security fixes for Jan. 15.
Garett Rogers: See […]

News to know: OLPC the soap opera; Vista SP1; Macs; CES

Posted in General, News to know (January 10, 2008 at 6:55 pm)

Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases another Vista SP1 refresh to 15,000 testers
Ed Bott: Microsoft extends the reach of Media Center
David Morgenstern: Will virtualization be king at Macworld Expo? Robin Harris: ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard. Larry Dignan: A tale of two statements: Apple and the EU on iTunes pricing. Best Buy […]

News to know: Cool storage at CES; Yahoo’s future; Mozilla’s new CEO

Posted in General, News to know (January 8, 2008 at 8:49 pm)

Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Mozilla names Lilly CEO; A look at his early priorities
CES coverage:

Robin Harris: Cool storage at CES - part 1
Dan Farber: Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo’s future: Life!
Intel’s Paul Otellini touts the ‘personal’ Internet and Smash Mouth
Josh Taylor: CES: My day one highlight? A surge protector
Ed Burnette: Alienware shows […]

News to know: Intel-OLPC divorce; iPod diagnostics; Vostro; Patch preview

Posted in General, News to know (January 4, 2008 at 11:38 pm)

Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Intel’s OLPC pullout sets up XO vs Classmate PC duel Christopher Dawson: OLPC and Intel part ways. What would my ideal education ultraportable look like? Techmeme.
David Morgenstern: Testing the iPod’s secret diagnostic tools
Robin Harris: Microsoft destroys user data - again!
Ed Burnette: Dell delivers Vostro value
Garett Rogers: Gmonkey - The Gmail GreaseMonkey API
Larry […]

News to know: Comparing quad-core servers; Lenovo goes consumer; Netflix

Posted in General, News to know ( at 12:03 am)

Notable headlines:
George Ou: A comparison of quad-core server CPUs
Lenovo has eyes on consumer PC market
Phil Wainewright: Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008
Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top box
Technology Voters’ Guide: Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Say “No!” to bundled apps!
Christopher Dawson: Why tech support by chat stinks
Gallery: Video cameras keep tabs on London (right).
Janice […]

News to know: OLPC lessons; 2008 in preview; Blu-ray on new MacBook Pro?

Posted in General, News to know (January 2, 2008 at 11:36 pm)

Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Lessons Learned: Two weeks with the XO laptop. Gallery: The unboxing.
Researcher: Sears’ use of ComScore software falls short on privacy
Robin Harris: Blu-ray option on new MacBook Pro
Happy 2008:

Larry Dignan: The security wish list
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: A few tech resolutions
Garett Rogers: Most popular Google posts.
Michael Krigsman: Five tips for achieving IT success in […]

News to know 2007: The final edition

Posted in News to know (December 31, 2007 at 10:47 pm)

It’s New Year’s eve and soon the beginning of another year in technology. At this point, I’m somewhat dislocated from the river of blogs and news. I’ve spent some of the holiday time observing eagles as they float above the river and feast on spawning salmon. But my attention is gradually turning to the tech […]

New to know: Looking back on 2007 and forward for 2008

Posted in General, News to know (December 28, 2007 at 11:11 pm)

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As the year winds down, bloggers around the world are looking back on the year in technology and making some predictions about what’s around the corner. ZDNet bloggers are applying the wisdom of the readers, discussing the most popular posts of the year. In broad strokes, the big will continue to get bigger in […]

News to know: iTune movie rentals, best and worst tech support, naked IT and more…

Posted in News to know (December 27, 2007 at 11:38 pm)

Notable headlines:
Jason O’Grady: Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals
A report in the Financial Times says that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to provide movie rentals on the iTunes Store. Disney currently sells their full line of films on iTunes while Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lionsgate sell older library titles. Movie rental, perhaps for […]

News to know: Globalization, randomness, iPhone, robots and more…

Posted in General, News to know ( at 11:38 pm)

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The subprime mortgage meltdown has triggered a global investment tsunami, with foreign governments and equity firms rushing to bail out U.S. financial institutions. Singapore-based Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. acquired $4.4 billion in Merrill Lynch stock and took an option to buy an additional $600 million in stock by March 2008. The China Investment […]

News to know: Mozilla Weave, LCD inflation, Santa tracker, predictions, more

Posted in General, News to know (December 24, 2007 at 10:54 pm)

Notable headlines:
George Ou: How LCD makers inflate their contrast ratio score
Google NORAD Santa tracker
Robin Harris: Mac OS X Leopard still not ready for prime time
Larry Dignan: Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You’d be surprised
Marc Andreessen: When non-technologists write about technology
Dan Farber: Mozilla floats Weave as Web platform
Mozilla Labs: Mozilla […]

News to know: Red Hat’s new CEO; RIM; FTC on privacy; Best PC components

Posted in General, News to know (December 22, 2007 at 2:57 am)

Notable headlines:
Red Hat names new Whitehurst CEO; Szulik stays chairman. A message from Matthew.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 “Best Kit List” for Dec 07/Jan 08. Without competition from AMD, Intel starts to put the brakes on releases
Podcast: A look back at 2007
Larry Dignan: Watch these FTC privacy principles and expect a skirmish. FTC: Google-DoubleClick deal […]

News to know: IE 8; 50W dual-core PC; Oracle; NetSuite; Dell snafu

Posted in General, News to know (December 20, 2007 at 11:14 pm)

Notable headlines:
George Ou: Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer
Mary Jo Foley: Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test. MSDN blog. Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward
Adrian Kingsley Hughes: First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 Odd Firefox system requirements recommendation
David Morgenstern: Parallels, VMware Fusion, Boot […]

News to know: Microsoft predictions; XO en route; IBM; Palm

Posted in General, News to know (December 19, 2007 at 11:36 pm)

Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: What’s on Microsoft’s agenda for 2008? Mary Jo’s top 10 at right. Guess prediction 10.
Dan Farber: ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us
ZoneAlarm toolbar bundle raises a ruckus
George Ou: Capital One customers experience data corruption
Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007
David Morgenstern: FileMaker fixes serious Leopard ‘compatibility issues’ for older […]

News to know: Apple patches; Windows Mobile 7, 8; Adobe; Green tech

Posted in General, News to know ( at 12:25 am)

Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and Safari
David Morgenstern: Are Mac users more honest than Windows users? Treating Leopard’s Finder not-fully-loading bug
WSJ: Apple meets with DoCoMo, Softbank over iPhone in Japan.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft outlines what’s coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8
As Microsoft knows, there’s more than one way […]

News to know: Working with Android; XP activation; Google Talk woe; Apple

Posted in General, News to know (December 17, 2007 at 11:55 pm)

Notable headlines:
Ed Burnette: Getting started with Android
Ed Bott: Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3
Mary Jo Foley: There’s still a lot of life left in desktop office suite. Microsoft releases CRM 4.0 to manufacturing just under the wire
Garett Rogers: New version of the Google Talk client disables voicemail and more
Dana Blankenhorn: Spam a bigger […]

News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work

Posted in General, News to know (December 14, 2007 at 11:15 pm)

Notable headlines:
Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime
David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial’s director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: ‘Shindig is live’
Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable…competition rocks
Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU over IE, Windows bundle; CTO makes Web standards case. Mary Jo Foley: Why Opera’s complaint is a bad idea. Paula Rooney: […]

News to know: Green Grid; Windows 7; AMD speaks; Bebo

Posted in General, News to know ( at 2:18 am)

Notable headlines:
David Berlind: With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to get new touch features. Microsoft makes IE with component activation change available to testers.
Larry Dignan: Ahead of its financial powwow, AMD takes ATI writedown
Images: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation Day (right)
Jason O’Grady: What […]

News to know: Amazon and SaaS; Firefox memory test; Dell XPS One vs. iMac

Posted in General, News to know (November 26, 2007 at 12:58 am)

Notable headlines:
David Morgenstern: Does the Dell PC XPS One top Apple’s iMac (are they blind)?
Michael Krigsman: IT security failure costs UK agency its chairman.
George Ou: Ruckus brings smart antennas to the enterprise wireless LAN space
Phil Wainewright: Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS. RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS. Joe McKendrick: The $80 […]

News to know: Linux; XP SP3; MySpace profits; HTC Advantage unwrapped

Posted in General, News to know (July 30, 2007 at 10:57 pm)

Notable headlines:
Paula Rooney: Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld. Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms Windows XP SP3 pre-beta is in testers’ hands. A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta. You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive.

Ed Bott: A confusing (but harmless) hotfix error message. […]

Podcast: News to know midday: Cisco outage; Microsoft file system; Open source Java

Posted in General, News to know (July 12, 2007 at 10:21 pm)

On today’s podcast:

Cisco.com goes dark on patch day.
How Microsoft puts your data at risk.
Sun lowers barriers to open source Java.