News to know: SAP's big buy; Adobe flaw; VMware; Curing spam
Notable headlines:
Dan Farber: SAP’s growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects. SAP statement. Dennis Howlett: SAP's acquiring Business Objects: 1st take.
Ryan Naraine: Adobe confirms PDF backdoor, offers unsupported workaround.
Larry Dignan: VMware updates infrastructure suite; touts storage, patch automation. Dan Kusnetzky: HP Image Zone Failure, Re-installation Adventure and HP Service.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right).
Dana Blankenhorn: Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected? Will U.S. retain medical technology edge?
Heather Clancy: Trade group, vendor start green IT info site. MSNBC: Msnbc.com acquires Newsvine. GigaOm: From The Information Age To The Connected Age. Ryan Stewart: Rich Internet applications as a tool for the web worker. Joe McKendrick: The road to Web 2.0 goes through SOA, but how?
Paula Rooney: Fedora 8 due Nov 8, just weeks after opensuse 10.3, ubuntu 7.10. Christopher Dawson: Latest OpenSUSE a mixed bag for educators.
VentureBeat: Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW.
Roland Piquepaille: Magnetic 'snakes' for storage devices? Chipping software for faster debugging.
Garett Rogers: Google Desktop 5.5 beta makes gadgets universal.
New York Times: The Facebook Generation.
Photos: Beauty tools for gadgets lovers (right).
Larry Dignan: A real bidding war: Google's price target.
FCC won't probe disclosure of phone records.
Pro gamers spurn geek stereotype and go mainstream.