Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday

By | December 11, 2007, 2:09am PST

Summary: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard’s iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25 David Berlind: Office Live Workspace narrows Google gap. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace: What it is [...]

Notable headlines:

Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme.

VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier?

David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard’s iSCSI support

News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25

David Berlind: Office Live Workspace narrows Google gap. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace: What it is and isn’t. New ‘Astoria’ test build released; final set for mid-2008.

Joe McKendrick: Analyst: Microsoft Oslo part of ‘tectonic shift’ to business design

Ryan Naraine: What’s the story with these security holes? Skype patches high-risk flaw, says sorry for not telling us.

Threat Level: Canadian ISP splices itself into Google home page.

Images: Happy 60th birthday transistor (right).

Dana Gardner: Red Hat unveils JBoss Developer Studio. Federated ESBs come to fore as natural outcome of guerrilla SOA practices.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Wii vs. iPhone - Which was the biggest hit of 2007? Linux, cheap PCs and the effect this will have on Microsoft.

Garett Rogers: Google shows real-time solar power statistics. Richard Koman: Google, CDT call for more searchable government

Larry Dignan: EDS lands $715 million outsourcing pact. Will China manufacturing costs be a tech overhang? NetSuite starts its IPO auction; broadcasts roadshow. HP thinks big about printing; Acquires NUR Macroprinters

ReadWriteWeb: YouTube ad partner program opens to all. MediaWeek: Ad buyers forgive Facebook.

David Berlind: HD displays--720p vs. 1080i vs. 1080p. Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.

Jason O’Grady: Apple’s secret weapon: Apple TV 2.0. Dan Kusnetzky: Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X.

AT&T to buy core routers from Cisco.

Ryan Stewart: Scrapblog gets venture capital from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures

George Ou: Can enterprise software be sexy?

Paul Murphy: Measuring green opportunities

AP: Texas Instruments updates outlook.

Matthew Miller: QuickOffice Premier 4.5 turns S60 device into a multimedia computer. Gallery (right). Try out the latest and greatest phones virtually with TryPhone

Microsoft starts offering ads on MSN Mobile

Russell Shaw: MSN Mobile to carry ads: I don’t like the idea a bit; do you? Four reasons why: Skype is minor bandwidth hog compared to torrents and file-hosters

Christopher Dawson: How do I make a website?

Michael Krigsman: Denial and the coming “data meltdown”

The Engadget interview: Peter Chou, CEO of HTC

Dennis Howlett: LeWeb3: innovation in Paris

Roland Piquepaille: Looking inside our skin

Dana Blankenhorn: Social networking and the open business revolution. The Corporatenet will be a big 2008 trend. Who will mandate electronic health records?

Microsoft does ad deal with CNBC

Toshiba to join solid-state drive niche

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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.

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