News to know: AMD Spider; Amazon Kindle; Visual Studio 2008
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season
Robin Harris: Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Building a Windows Home Server - the easy way!
Mary Jo Foley: Visual Studio 2008 to go gold. Ryan Stewart: Visual Studio 2008 coming. What will Microsoft share about Windows futures in 2008?
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week.
David Berlind: Is Apple getting dragged (kicking, screaming, or suing?) into licensing OS X? David Morgenstern: Tiger update brings Safari headaches. Larry Dignan: Apple’s most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
Dan Farber: Paglo debuts IT search engine as a service.
Christopher Dawson: Should a child's first word be "Google"? Ryan Naraine: Belated Firefox patch coming for (another) protocol handling bug. Auctioneer hyping sale of 'ravaging' ClamAV vulnerability. Dan Farber: Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters
Garett Rogers: 23andme to launch. YouTube HD coming within 3 months
TechCrunch: Facebook offers to buy Chinese social site.
Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N81 8GB; music now ROCKS on a smartphone! George Ou: More images and products from supercomputing 2007. How Rackable saves power with impeller fans.
New York Times: In Korea, a Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession.
Dan Farber: Capgemini deploys Google Apps...to itself
Mary Jo Foley: Does 10+20+30+40 = Microsoft buying Yahoo?
Reuters: PayPal offers secure way to shop non-PayPal sites.
House rejects immunity for phone companies in spy suits
Michael Krigsman: Oracle's wall-to-wall software suite
Robert Scoble: The brand promise of Apple.
Roland Piquepaille: Remotely controlled nanoparticles fight tumors.
Heather Clancy: Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity
David Berlind: Buh-bye hard drive: Box.net's online storage now directly accessible by multiple Web apps
Jason O'Grady: Western Digital raises the mobile HDD bar to 320GB