News to know: SAP TechEd; Yahoo Search revamp; Poor man's all-in-one PC
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: O'Reilly talks turning IT inside out and data lock-in at SAP TechEd. Dennis Howlett: Will SAP Business ByDesign have AJAX goodness?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Response Point phone software for small businesses set to RTM. Microsoft buys Jellyfish comparison-shopping search engine. Yahoo Search Blog: From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search
Review: Velocity Micro NoteMagix x25 (right).
Larry Dignan: Cognos uses Excel to tap its BI tools.
Ed Bott: What's coming with Windows? Even the insiders aren't sure...
David Morgenstern: Bytes and pieces from Apple’s iPhone interface guide.
Rumors of Mac ultralight, tablet: Part 2.
Ryan Naraine: GMail backdoor patched, time to check your filters. George Ou: The poor man’s all-in-one PC for $380. Gallery (right). Larry Dignan: The $150 laptop saga: No delivery schedule and the end of an order.
David Berlind: Video: Toshiba's sub-2 pound Portégé R500 includes optical drive, all-day battery. When it comes to Rich Internet Apps (RIAs), is Adobe winning a one-horse race? eBay: What to do with Skype? Russell Shaw: Did Skype’s two-day outage in August help seal ousted Skype exec’s fate? Larry Dignan: eBay: Skype wasn’t all that after all. Russell Shaw: Zennstrom: Skype's in good shape. Me: oh, yea? Zennstrom responds. Techmeme.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft System Center gets the services treatment.
Dennis Howlett: ROI is so Business 1.0: not. Michael Krigsman: Two questions to improve software implementations. 6 tips to reduce IT project failures. 40 IT failures caused by software bugs.
Joe McKendrick: Finally, Enterprise Service Buses becoming mass transit vehicles? HP: Linux ready for most applications. GPL defenders say: See you in court.
BetaNews: Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday.
Heather Clancy: We interrupt your green tech propaganda for a low-tech eco-ramble. Russell Shaw: AT&T reserves the right to terminate critics.3Com fills SMB niches with new IP Telephony products. Phil Wainewright: What you see is what you publish. AT&T to buy Web conferencing provider. Dana Blankenhorn: How deep should electronic health records be?
Computerworld: Great career advice I ignored.
Images: A half-century of space flight. Larry Dignan: Microsoft Office Live Workspace: A good hedge.
Nokia to buy Navteq for $8.1 billion.
Matthew Miller: HTC announces Touch DUAL and 4th quarter lineup. Microsoft gives U.K. start-ups a helping hand.