News to know: OLPC the soap opera; Vista SP1; Macs; CES
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases another Vista SP1 refresh to 15,000 testers
Ed Bott: Microsoft extends the reach of Media Center
David Morgenstern: Will virtualization be king at Macworld Expo? Robin Harris: ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard. Larry Dignan: A tale of two statements: Apple and the EU on iTunes pricing. Best Buy plans to double Mac presence at its stores
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agenda.
Computerworld: OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux machines. Mary Jo Foley: OLPCs to be dual-boot Linux/Windows mach
The ZunePhone is dead. Long live the ZunePhone. Microsoft's incubation labs keep the innovation fires burning.
Photos: Solar powered gadgets for the masses (right).
Wired News: The untold story: How the iPhone blew up the wireless industry.
Michael Krigsman: Naked IT: Shel Israel, co-author of "Naked Conversations" (includes podcast)
Larry Dignan: Is there a rootkit stashed in your boot record?
Roadblocks en route to free, legal music
George Ou: This ad brought to you via Bluetooth
Dennis Howlett: Newsgator's saturation strategy is paying off. Techmeme.
CES coverage:
- Matthew Miller: WiMAX may be rolling out sooner than you thought. Mobile phones were not a big part of CES 2008
- Dan Farber: All roads lead to the social Web. A deeper look at surface computing.
- Janice Chen: The most exciting cameras at CES, continued...
- Josh Taylor: CES: HD Camcorders, and set-top boxes, and cheap Blu-ray, oh my!
- Dan Farber: Bill Gates' unfinished business. Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC. CES: Big thinkers and disruptive technologies
- George Ou: Plasmas giving way to LCD technology at CES 2008. Sharp shows off true 100K contrast ratio LCDs at 1" thick
Comcast to cooperate in FCC Web traffic probeDana Blankenhorn: Will open standards ever come to telecomm? Big fish hospital, big fish vendor. Paula Rooney: McAfee claims open source legal concerns are much ado about nothing
Christopher Dawson: Why won't my teachers stop printing? An Ed Tech laptop rant
Roland Piquepaille: Collision warning system for connected cars
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Microsoft getting ready to charge users for Windows Live Messenger Mobile?
Jason O'Grady: Inside Intel's Harpertown Processor
Steve O'Hear: Politweets, a political buzz tracker based on Twitter
Electronics retailers say shoppers are more selective
Robin Harris: Microsoft hoses user data - mea culpa