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The five products Apple must make

What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next.

• Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
• Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video
• Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
• Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs
• Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• The BlackBerry Beat
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Googling Google

Look who's buying Vista Home Basic

Ed Bott: Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think consumers have rejected Home Basic in favor of Home Premium.

• Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video
• Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs
• Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform
• Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week
• Are there really too many Windows editions?

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• Community, Inc.
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Linux and Open Source
• Managing L'unix
• The Universal Desktop

Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed

Ryan Naraine: Apple has shipped another whopper of a patch to cover a total of 40 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X ecosystem.

• Ryan Naraine: MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical
• Ryan Naraine: Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug

• Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator
• MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical
• Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed
• Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug
• Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware

• Zero Day
• Threat Chaos
• Between the Lines

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?

Steve O'Hear: Social news site, Digg, faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base (and therefore content) beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue.

• Google ignores some reported security problems?
• An interview with Scott Brinker
• Is Google working on the synchronization problem?
• Will you forget about Android?
• Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?

• Googling Google
• Dev Connection
• The Semantic Web
• The Social Web
• The Universal Desktop
• Web 2.0 Explorer

Laptops with mobile WiMax now available

John Morris: All of these laptops use Intel's Echo Peak chipset, formally known as the WiMax/WiFi Link 5350, which is part of the Centrino 2 platform.

• Can the REDFLY and WM device match the Motorola VC6096 functionality?
• First impressions of the Dash Express connected GPS device
• MobileTechRoundup show #149, Netbook talk, WiMAX available, new phones in the house
• Sony announces new Reader eBook device with integrated LED and touch screen
• First Intel MID now available for $699

• The BlackBerry Beat
• IP Telephony
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• The Social Web
• SOHO Networking
• Team Think

Apple set to release $800 notebook?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The rumor, if true, is a clear sign that Apple is looking to broaden its customer base to survive when consumers are tightening their belts.

• Mary Jo Foley: Cheap Apple laptop--is Microsoft afraid?
• Jason D. O'Grady: Apple invites press to 14 October notebook event
• Jason D. O'Grady: More on the new MacBooks

• Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
• Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro
• Apple kicks off Ultracompact USB adapter exchange program
• Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
• Consumers score a partial win against Walmart

• Storage Bits
• Hardware 2.0
• The Core Truth
• Laptops & Desktops

Asustek to offer touch-panel Eee PCs?

Andrew Nusca: While the Web swoons over news of Apple's latest $800 market entry, Asustek is planning to launch touchscreen Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009

• 'A device that will blow the roof off all previous Blackberrys'
• Can these cell phones replace your digital camera--and your dermatologist?
• Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
• Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
• Can the REDFLY and WM device match the Motorola VC6096 functionality?

• Digital Cameras
• Laptops & Desktops
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• SOHO Networking
• The ToyBox

Two things money can't buy: Love and SOA

Joe McKendrick: At many organizations right now, SOA is a "technology predicated death march," according to Jim "World Wide" Webber.

• Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
• Entellium's lost millions
• Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
• Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

• Between the Lines
• BriefingsDirect
• Enterprise Anti-matter
• Enterprise Web 2.0
• Irregular Enterprise
• IT Project Failures
• Service Oriented
• Software as Services

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop battery, with a silver-zinc technology

• Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
• Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
• The five products Apple must make
• Dell speeds backup with disk-to-disk system
• Start-up looks to extend battery life

• Emerging Technologies
• Between The Lines
• All About Microsoft
• The Core Truth
• IT Facts
• Tom Foremski: IMHO

Categorizing failure and lining up ducks

Michael Krigsman: To really understand IT failures, it's helpful to organize, categorize, and line them up like ducks.

• IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting
• Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris
• Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
• Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals

• On Sustainability
• IT Project Failures
• GreenTech Pastures
• IT Services & Outsourcing
• Managing L'unix