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News to know: IBM's fear free enterprise; Everex Google PC; Vista security

By | November 1, 2007, 4:00am PDT

Summary: Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Everex delivers $198 err $199 Google-friendly PC. IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend. Ed Bott: One year later, Vista really is more secure. AP: Cisco Announces $16B China Expansion Ryan Naraine: Macrovision patches patch-delivery tool, leaves DRM zero-day wide open. Dennis Howlett: Why should investors dictate at BEA? Dan Farber: Yahoo on OpenSocial: [...]

Notable headlines:

Dan Farber: Everex delivers $198 err $199 Google-friendly PC.

IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend.

Ed Bott: One year later, Vista really is more secure.

AP: Cisco Announces $16B China Expansion

Ryan Naraine: Macrovision patches patch-delivery tool, leaves DRM zero-day wide open.

Dennis Howlett: Why should investors dictate at BEA?

Dan Farber: Yahoo on OpenSocial: Socialization standards are good for all. Who will get on board Google’s OpenSocial train? OpenSocial: Developers speak out. OpenSocial opens new can of worms. Techmeme.

Photos: Clean-tech start-ups swing for the fences (right).

David Berlind: Connect the Google dots: In war on spam, GMail’s IMAP support hints at ‘auto-unsubscribe’ standard.

Dana Blankenhorn: Wordpress all grown up, wins best CMS. Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?

Paula Rooney: Former Red Hat exec leaves Zmanda after short stint, brain drain at Red Hat continues.

Robin Harris: Are Chinese disk drives flaky?

Heather Clancy: IBM silicon rejects reborn in solar panels.

Michael Krigsman: Google FeedBurner is down: SaaS isn’t mission-critical ready.

Roland Piquepaille: Repelling bullets with nanotube armors.

Photos: Damage throws wrench into spacewalk (right).

Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs holes in Xcode. David Morgenstern: Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X Leopard. Jason O’Grady: Apple’s boogeyman: Google phone.

TidBits: Apple to allow Leopard virtualization.

Christopher Dawson: Linux Classmate update. Dead hardware I can sink my teeth into.

Samsung buys Israeli chip design firm.

Matthew Miller: The Samsung i780 may be the first 320×320 Windows Mobile touch-screen device. The Palm Centro; at $99.99 it really isn’t a tough choice. Larry Dignan: How the iPhone changed Verizon Wireless.

Images: Comet bursts into view (right).

Joe McKendrick: Are ‘Guerrilla SOA’ and Web 2.0 one in the same?

George Ou: Microsoft Unified Communications shuns G.722 wideband interoperability.

Larry Dignan: Dell’s consumer PC disaster.

Computerworld: What went wrong with the mobile Web?

Make Cisco $1 billion and win a job.

Symantec: Virtualization can ease data center woes.

Intel’s Montvale Itanium chip arrives.

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Security, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, PC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Everex, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., OpenSocial, Nanotechnology, Data Centers, Keyboards, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals

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