Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

By | September 5, 2008, 2:11am PDT

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:

Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list

Mary Jo Foley: Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?

Sam Diaz: Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?

WSJ: Dell plans to sell factories to save costs
Office 2.0 coverage:

EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com

Joshua Greenbaum: Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

PaidContent.org: Samsung Looking At Buying Digital Memory Company SanDisk

Jason Perlow: Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

Paul Murphy: From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

Phil Wainewright: Zuora gets PayPal president on board

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How important is boot performance?

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Wireless Access: What Price Speed

Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley’s gender gap

MacRumors: Apple Rejecting Apps Based on ‘Limited Utility’

Google: Update to Google Chrome’s terms of service

Sean Portnoy: Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling

PC World: Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops From November

Ryan Stewart: Are we “done” with rich Internet applications?

Dennis Howlett: SocialCast: enterprise Twitter/FriendFeed mashup

Video: Political party playlists

Larry Dignan: Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants

Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Storm goes into TA (technical acceptance) at Verizon, delayed 3-4 weeks

Matthew Miller: Qik streaming service comes to HTC Windows Mobile devices

Jason O’Grady: Is this Tuesday’s 4G nano?

Dana Blankenhorn: My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

John Carroll: The power of standard protocols

Andrew Mager: Microsoft’s Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0

Dan Kusnetzky: Red Hat acquires Qumranet

Christopher Dawson: What can we do better?

NYT: Does Windows Still Matter?

Roland Piquepaille: How plants grow under the ground

Dana Blankenhorn: Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor

Heather Clancy: Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

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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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