News to know: Vista SP1 nears; iPhone Java support; Sprint's customer service
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July. Larry Dignan: The strategy behind Vista SP1. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Microsoft rushing Vista SP1 to boost adoption?
Ed Bott: The Vista driver outlook gets a little brighter.
Ed Burnette: Apple sneaks Java support onto the iPhone.
Review: Samsung Q1 Ultra (Q1U-V at left) .
Christopher Dawson: Google calculator - it’s no TI-89, but it’s pretty cool.
Sprint's customer service fiasco:
- Splitting up with your cell phone carrier.
- Larry Dignan: Time to boycott Sprint over its customer treatment.
- Russell Shaw: Sprint said to cancel nearly 200 military accounts. More Sprint outrages: phone, store employees told to shoo away cancelled account appeals. That to-be-disconnected Sprint customer tells me all.
Mary Jo Foley: Are Microsoft's patent lawyers really this dumb? Microsoft tries evading new GPL grasp.
- Dana Gardner: SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application development.
- Joe McKendrick: Another view: avoid bottom-up SOA like the plague. Turn your SOA into a HOA (human oriented architecture).
Images: The sci-fi effect on high tech (right).
Computerworld: Army medics get new handhelds for battle applications.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt: India, globalization and the economics of scarcity.
Five outsourcing trends to watch.
IHT: US telecommunications company Verizon's copper cutoff traps customers, hampers rivals.
Jason O'Grady: iPhone Diary Day 8: A hacker's handbook. Russell Shaw: U.S. Best Buy to sell the iPhone?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house.
Photos: Top 10 reviews this week.
Long Zheng: When three ex-MSFTies partner: They’re Beautiful!
Ryan Naraine: Auction site opens up for exploits, vulnerabilities. Robert Scoble: Why Microsoft outplays Apple long term.
Joshua Greenbaum: The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software.
New York Times: Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Prices as Many Xboxes Fail.
WSJ: EA chief cites need for more innovative games.
Christopher Dawson: Linux definitely has a place in education.
Dan Kusnetzky: Day 6 of the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick.
Engadget: Extravagant World of Warcraft setup includes 47 PCs, seven monitors.
New York Times: Technology’s Untanglers: They Make It Really Work.
News.com: The 787 Dreamliner is here