Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: CES; Gates' curtain call; Office 2003 and old file types; Apple

By | January 7, 2008, 3:27am PST

Summary: Notable headlines: CES coverage: Ryan Stewart: Silverlight to power the online video portal for the 2008 Olympics Gates: Curtain call for crystal ball. Mary Jo Foley: Gates’ last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures. Dan Farber: Gates gives CES keynote swan song–no fireworks Matthew Miller: CES: Mobile gadgets at Digital Experience! Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista [...]

Notable headlines:

CES coverage:

David Morgenstern: Looking back: The PC assault on Apple’s pro markets
Sure bet for 2008: More Apple lawsuits Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Latest antitrust lawsuit targeting Apple’s weak spots

The New Yorker: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics.

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft restores Office 2003 users’ access to old file types. Report: Windows Mobile 7 to incorporate touch, gesture recognition.

Microsoft softens limits on its Windows Web Server. Microsoft adds a new subscription licensing plan for SMBs

Photos: New Segways–leaner and meaner

Richard Koman: Obama turns Facebook fans into delegates

George Ou: Ruckus wireless LAN security method solves usability versus security dilemma

Larry Dignan: LiMo: New members added; First release on deck; Is the future about mobile middleware?

Napster moves to MP3-only music download format

New York Times: Investors seek takeover of CNET

TechCrunch: Wikia Search is a complete letdown.

Christopher Dawson: Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle

Gallery (right): Favorite views of Saturn

Garett Rogers: Magellan to provide local listings from Google

Android contest officially open - Individuals happy, teams worried

Matthew Miller: Vodafone 2008 roadmap may include first Palm smartphone with WiFi, two Nokias, two BlackBerry devices, and two HP devices

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Office 2003 SP3 and CorelDraw .CDR files

Russell Shaw: Sprint customer: Dad on our calling plan just died. Sprint: prove it

Phil Fersht: Maintaining a 25% profit margin in this crazy world of globalization. Gallery: Audi’s plant in India.

Roland Piquepaille: 3-D pictures of a cancer-promoting enzyme

A crystal as beautiful as a diamond

Larry Dignan: OLPC responds to Intel breakup

Play the Sears privacy game (and get your neighbor’s purchase history)

Are so-called anywhere applications getting somewhere?

The next hacker frontier: Social networking sites

Michael Krigsman: Boeing 787 at risk of in-flight hacking. Twitter’s true magic

Russell Shaw: Thing is, Yahoo!, you harvested and used my Visa number without my permission

New Mac chip in pipeline could turn iPhone into a mini MacBook

Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily e-mail newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

Disclosure

Larry Dignan

Larry Dignan has nothing to disclose. He doesn’t hold investments in the technology companies he covers.

Biography

Larry Dignan

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

For daily updates, follow Larry on Twitter.

Related Discussions on TechRepublic

Did you know you can take part in these discussions with your ZDNet membership?

The discussion hasn’t started yet. Why don’t you begin it?

Formatting +
BB Codes - Note: HTML is not supported in forums
  • [b] Bold [/b]
  • [i] Italic [/i]
  • [u] Underline [/u]
  • [s] Strikethrough [/s]
  • [q] "Quote" [/q]
  • [ol][*] 1. Ordered List [/ol]
  • [ul][*] · Unordered List [/ul]
  • [pre] Preformat [/pre]
  • [quote] "Blockquote" [/quote]
ie8 fix

The best of ZDNet, delivered

ZDNet Newsletters

Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox

Facebook Activity

White Papers, Webcasts, & Resources
ie8 fix