Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Ubuntu; Microsoft's Albany; Google; Safari flap

By | March 24, 2008, 2:14am PDT

Summary: Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look: Hardy Heron Beta. Gallery: Installation. Screen shots: OS tour Mary Jo Foley: ‘Albany’: New Microsoft ‘home office’ in the works? Michael Krigsman: Is IT becoming extinct? Garett Rogers: New Google Mobile feature lets you search without typing Demographic bidding now in AdWords for everyone Robin Harris: Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked! Jason O’Grady: Rumor Mill: What you’ll [...]

Notable headlines:

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look: Hardy Heron Beta. Gallery: Installation. Screen shots: OS tour

Mary Jo Foley: ‘Albany’: New Microsoft ‘home office’ in the works?

Michael Krigsman: Is IT becoming extinct?

Garett Rogers: New Google Mobile feature lets you search without typing

Demographic bidding now in AdWords for everyone

Robin Harris: Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked!

Jason O’Grady: Rumor Mill: What you’ll be buying from Apple next

Manila Mac shipping AirMail sleeve for MacBook Air

George Ou: Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

NYT: A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites

Tom Foremski: Will the burden of the Long Tail kill Internet commerce?

NYT: The Royalty Scam Techmeme

Paula Rooney: Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Windows on its update site

Roland Piquepaille: Printing organs on demand?

Ed Bott: Sony drops its $49 “no crapware” fee

Images: Oceans on Titan, and salt on Mars

Rik Fairlie: Make your own Wi-Fi access point, for free

Joe McKendrick: War declared against JBOWS architecture… but is it something we can live with?

Larry Dignan: iPhone in the enterprise: Bridging the employee, IT department gap

Heather Clancy: Into Africa: Inveneo’s low-power computing alternative Harry Fuller: Are we running out of everything? MSM’s stunning lack of concern

Steve Rubel: Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist

Michael Krigsman: QA failure in Yahoo unlimited email

I Cringely: War of the Worlds — There is a technology war coming.

Phil Fersht: Spring outsourcing talk

U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-ray

Richard Koman: Network Solutions censors anti-Koran film site

How open will Verizon make its new spectrum? Change-Congress, an open source strategy for political reform

Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat takes the open source security challenge

66% of US employees write down passwords in unsafe places

Matthew Miller: The REDFLY gives me back the utility of a Handheld PC, but with the latest OS

O’Grady: Dr. Bott T3 USB 2.0 hub Gallery (right).

NYT: Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out

Paul Murphy: Discussing talkback formats

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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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