News to know: Google's virtual worlds; Amazon S3; Forsee out; Aviary
Notable headlines:
Google tools to power virtual worlds. Gallery (right).
ReadWriteWeb: Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense. Google: Introducing video units. Amazon S3 gets service level agreement.
Larry Dignan: Forsee out at Sprint. Russell Shaw: Foreseen: Forsee out at Sprint. But will they learn from these mistakes under his watch?
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Home Server team readies next 'UR1' release. Danny Thorpe quits the Windows Live development team.
Ryan Stewart: In-depth review of the Aviary design platform. Gallery at right.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: LCD panels and dead/stuck pixels. George Ou: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize.
David Morgenstern: The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did). Garett Rogers: GPhone is an OS aimed at Windows Mobile. Photos: Fine-art photography from the microscope (right).
Dan Farber: Graphing social patterns: The intersection of search and social. Graphing social patterns with Linkedin's Reid Hoffman. Ryan Naraine: McAfee snaps up SafeBoot for $350 million. Leftovers: Solaris workaround, Patch Tuesday.
Coding Horror: YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie.
David Berlind: Gates in '04 said 'spam soon to be thing of past' and me on Charlie Rose about the real solution. Carm from Sandisk ups ante; will shave her head too if Microsoft's Zune makes it to #2.
Roland Piquepaille: GPS accuracy for a robotic neurosurgeon.
TUAW: Preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreak.
Larry Dignan: Yahoo's 100-day review: A lot of cards shown already.
IBM ploughs deeper into small-business market.
Jason O'Grady: Add/edit calendars coming to iPod touch?
Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?
CRN: Ballmer: Google reads your mail.
Dolby stakes its claim in 3D movie tech. Photos: The technology behind 3D movies (right).
From blue collar to green chemistry.
Russell Shaw: Is iPhone helping Apple lose its soul? Re Vonage-Sprint: so what, exactly, does "productive future relationship" mean? Larry Dignan: Vonage and Sprint settle patent dispute; Is Verizon next?
Joshua Greenbaum: Why Did SAP buy Business Objects? Dennis Howlett: Combining SAP and BusinessObjects. Michael Krigsman: Los Angeles school district SAP implementation still broken.
Matthew Miller: Hands-on video of 4 new devices from Verizon Wireless.
Dave Greenfield: How Facebook Improves Productivity.