News to know: Intel-OLPC divorce; iPod diagnostics; Vostro; Patch preview
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Intel's OLPC pullout sets up XO vs Classmate PC duel Christopher Dawson: OLPC and Intel part ways. What would my ideal education ultraportable look like? Techmeme.
David Morgenstern: Testing the iPod's secret diagnostic tools
Robin Harris: Microsoft destroys user data - again!
Ed Burnette: Dell delivers Vostro value
Garett Rogers: Gmonkey - The Gmail GreaseMonkey API
Larry Dignan: Microsoft plans critical Vista security bulletin. Researcher: Firefox vulnerable to ID spoofing. Richard Stiennon: 'Secret Crush' first malicious widget on Facebook. If you thought 'Security '07' was hairy, just wait
Dan Farber: Plaxo gives Facebook a litmus test. Techmeme. What is Facebook's stance on data portability? Steve O'Hear: Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us.
Dion Hinchcliffe: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
Intuit bug resurfaces at public Wi-Fi hot spots
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 2008: Year of the Mac?
Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry will be shown at CES
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry Patent app proposes Low memory manager fo
George Ou: Buil
Larry Dignan: Lenovo: Does it have the design chops? Gallery right. Speaking of design, Dell updates its 15.4-inch Inspiron notebooks (left). Matthew Miller: New Tablet PCs from Lenovo and HP announced
Henry Blodget: The Mozilla/Firefox IPO
Office 2003 update blocks older file formats
'Stock' beats 'sex' on Google China
Richard Koman: Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD
Roland Piquepaille: Cellphones to track air pollution
Gizmodo: Apple docking patent works with ultra-slim MacBook
Ryan Stewart: No, Microsoft is not redoing microsoft.com in Silverlight
Cynergy unveils Cynergy Labs and Project Maestro
Data integration demand will grow in 2008
Joe McKendrick: Don't want to swim with the SOA sharks? Here's another SOA 'fish'
Dan Kusnetzky: Technical Support - Is virtualization technology overwhelming suppliers?
Russell Shaw: Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in
Gallery: Toyota's A-Bat mobile (right).
Harry Fuller: '08 big year for coal tech
Ars Technica: WiFi flu could affect entire cities
Motorola introduces mobile video player
Notebook battery maker gets charged up for cars
Dana Gardner: Genuitec's Pulse service provides automated updates across Eclipse, Android, ColdFusion
Mitch Ratcliffe: Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead
David Berlind: Farewell to ZDNet (and CNET)