News to know: A Vista SP1 feast; Yahoo says no; Mobile World Congress; DC in data centers
Notable headlines:
All you need to know about Vista SP1 (and then some).
Ed Bott: A Vista SP1 FAQ. Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgrades
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' ongoing test drive: Vista SP1, making it (a little) harder for users to forget their logon password - Day 4
- Gallery: Windows Vista SP1 - Full initial setup (right above)
- Hackers - 1 : SP1 - 0
- SP1 brings with it a softer, gentler, naggier WGA - Day 3 (right)
- Gallery: Updates WGA in SP1
- The SP1 upgrades continue - Day 2
Mobile World Congress:
- Matthew Miller: MWC08: Sony Ericsson announces XPERIA X1 Windows Mobile device
- MWC08: Boingo announces mobile support for Windows Mobile 6 and UIQ
- HTC announces P3470 with GPS for the entry level consumer
- HTC Shift available in Europe today with Origami Experience 2.0
- HTC announces updated HTC Advantage X7510 with a 16GB flash drive
- Sony Ericsson announces two new UIQ smartphones
Dan Farber: Greenplum delivers fast petabyte-scale data loading
Yahoo turns down Microsoft for now:
- WSJ: Yahoo's rejection pressures Microsoft to sweeten bid
- Larry Dignan: Yahoo reportedly says no to Microsoft, but the game is far from over
- Dan Farber: Microhoo: The end game. Microhoo: Looking beyond the search war. Yahoo running to AOL to avoid Microsoft?
- Dennis Howlett: Is Yahoo's! board brain dead?
- Michael Krigsman: Microsoft should break up now
- Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's Plan B?
- Russell Shaw: Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?
- Richard Stiennon: Yippee! Yahoo's board rejects Microsoft's bid
- Garett Rogers: Yahoo won't settle for less than $56 billion
Tom Foremski: Does an Oracle acquisition of Salesforce make sense?
Larry Dignan: Dell: We're committed to AMD but...
David Morgenstern: So many MagSafe adapters - who knew?
Techmeme: Sony puts life in a clamshell, uses Windows Mobile
Heather Clancy: Part 2: Does DC have a place in the data center? Part 1: Does DC have a place in the data center?
A place to run some environmental stats on your homes (or would-be home)
Jason O'Grady: MacBook Air Diary-Day 9: Is the SSD overhyped?
Alcatel takes big hit on Lucent assets
The next big things in wireless
Rik Fairlie: An easy (and cheap) way to upgrade your 802.11g router to Draft N
Images: This knee brace could charge batteries (right)
Computerworld: Adobe PDF exploit infects many thousand
Roland Piquepaille: Feeling organs via a display screen
Phil Fersht: Has Europe lost the offshore war?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The OS should be invisible to the user - Is Torvalds right?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft goes internal for a new OEM chief. XP SP3: The test-build parade continues
Dennis Howlett: What now for the remaining integration players?
Phil Wainewright: Microsoft Kool-Aid and the cloud
John Morris: Ready or not, here comes Silverthorne
Dan Farber: Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?
Police Blotter: E911 rules aid police in tracking cell phones