Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Salesforce.com; Second Life currency theft; SAP; Document standards

By | December 5, 2007, 2:14am PST

Summary: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers. Dan Farber: SAP blesses the iPhone. Michael Krigsman: SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up David Berlind: Did the W3C acknowledge CDF’s potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators. Microsoft [...]

Notable headlines:

Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers. Dan Farber: SAP blesses the iPhone. Michael Krigsman: SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up

David Berlind: Did the W3C acknowledge CDF’s potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators.

Microsoft to deliver Office 2007 SP1 early.

Ryan Naraine: QuickTime hack allows Second Life currency theft. Grisoft snaps up Exploit Prevention Labs. Richard Stiennon: Ten threat predictions for 2008.

Will the Feds take down a big hacker group in 2008?

Ed Burnette: Netbeans 6.0 weighs in at a paltry 12M.

Dan Farber:
Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shift. Technorati rolls out Percolator and Blogger Central.

Photos: Gibson’s self-tuning six string (right).

Researcher: Al-Qaida-linked Web sites number 5,600
.

AppleInsider: Apple validates 13-inch LED backlight units ahead of ultra-portable.

Matthew Miller:
Nokia World 2007: Avvenu acquisition, internet radio, free music, and more. Larry Dignan: Nokia: Dissecting the moving parts.

Roland Piquepaille: Building 3-D particles with light.

Ryan Stewart: Flickr and Picnik - RIAs continue to go mainstream. Digital Inspiration has exclusive screenshots of Live Documents.

BusinessWeek: Verizon
embraces Google’s Android.

Google Blogoscoped: Chat With AIM Users From Gmail.

Christopher Dawson: Writer’s Cafe is slick, cross-platform software for all writers

David Berlind: Video: Amazon’s Kindle in a crashed state — must the content be reloaded? Amazon’s Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?

Cisco names new CTO.

Podcast: Beacon woes, Techonorati revamp, Kindle, ODF and more…

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Fastest Windows Vista notebook - MacBook Pro. Could Apple allow Windows apps to run natively? David Morgenstern: Are Macs more blue than red?

George Ou: Firefox vs. Internet Explorer: No real security winner. Mozilla’s Mike Shaver’s first response and second one.

Dana Blankenhorn: The real argument against electronic health records.

Photos: Antarctica in HD.

Larry Dignan: Survey: 13 percent of CIOs plan to add staff soon. Bruce Schneier on the 10 year security outlook (it’s worrisome).

Dennis Howlett: Customer intimacy not strong at SAP. SAP unveils its first software for iPhone.

Dana Blankenhorn: Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate.

Robin Harris: 3 simple ways to optimize for Google PageRank.

Computerworld: Facebook’s Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg.

Steve O’Hear: MySpace launches “Transmissions” - exclusive content from major label artists.

Securing Microsoft: Inviting the hackers inside.

Russell Shaw: VoIP sessions subpar? Try this. “iPhone” is Google’s “fastest rising U.S. search term” of 2007: here’s why.

Heather Clancy: When it comes to buying tech, about 12 percent of Americans are “bright green

AT&T, Verizon Wireless agree to asset swap.

Target me with your ads, please.

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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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