News to know: HD DVD done; Vista SP1 problems and benchmarks; MacBook Air Diary; Green data centers
Notable headlines:
Robin Harris: What your disk drive isn't telling you.
Toshiba: We're done with HD DVD
Report: Toshiba to announce HD DVD pullout Tuesday. Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360
Mary Jo Foley: No update from Microsoft on Vista SP1, Media Cent
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Benchmarked. Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Part Deux
Dan Farber: Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service Ryan Stewart: Bungee Labs and platform as a service: a great RIA
Dan Kusnetzky:How does the use of virtualization technology differ by industry?
Michael Krigsman: Seven antidotes to the caustic politics of IT failure
- Google’s huge data centers: the IT failures question
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Larry Dignan: Amazon explains its S3 outage
Jason O'Grady: MacBook Air Diary-Day 19: Traveling light
Dana Blankenhorn: The next frontier for GPL Violations
Richard Stiennon: California court order effectively erases Wikileaks. Techmeme. Richard Koman: ISP turns over hundreds of email accounts to FBI
Images: A deviant art collection (right)
Heather Clancy: New data center facilities company finds green home on the range
Harry Fuller: Are you the new Mr. Green Jeans? Cottoning on to "green" clothes
Dan Farber: BlueTie brings 'featuretisements' to workflow. Microhoo update: Culture clash, Alibaba and board room politics. Data center centerfold: Google's new Oregon facility
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry-Motorola patent infringement fight makes little sense to me BlackBerry maker, Motorola duel in lawsuits
Ryan Stewart: HD rich media continues to bloom
Joshua Greenbaum: IDS Scheer: Jazzing up BPM
MacRumors: Advanced multitouch gesturing in Mac OS X control panel
ReadWriteWeb: Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds
Phil Fersht: Should your firm offload its offshore operations to an outsourcing provider?
Garett Rogers: Gmail task list feature spotted in the wild. GrandCentral suffers major outage
Matthew Miller: MWC08: Share on Ovi launches as the first Ovi service by Nokia
- A look at the S60 touch UI
- Opera Mobile 9.5 running on a Sony Ericsson UIQ device
- Ed Burnette: Nokia debuts Android phone, sort of
Roland Piquepaille: Robotic rats will get a sense of touch
Ed Gottsman: Wikinomics 4: the prosumers
Steve O'Hear: With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?