Companies
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.
Operating Systems
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.
Security
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.
Web Technology
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.
Communications
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
Enterprise Hardware
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.
Product Review Blogs
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
Enterprise Software
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.
General News
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
IT Management
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
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Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking ...
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Google ignores some reported security problems?
Aviv Raff posted a public disclosure of a minor security risk that could be a major problem if used in conjunction with another type of problem. It's true that his ...
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Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, ...
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IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting
A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability ...
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Wireless soil sensors to help farmers
A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect ...
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Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video
Unlike previous blurry pictures of the new MacBooks, there's a new video of Tuesday's upcoming MacBook revision. It's very clear in spots and, if real, provides new angles at the ...
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Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ...
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Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris
Paul Krill's recent New York Times hit piece against Solaris demonstrates, I think, a new low in manipulative agenda journalism as it affects IT. Brilliantly done, really, but pointlessly destructive ...
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Entellium's lost millions
Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE ...
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Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the ...
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Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs
Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and ...
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Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the ...
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Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform
It's been tricky keeping separate all of the "layers" in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. But now Live Services is a ...
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Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ?89
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak ?..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked ...
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Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week
It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. by Mary Jo Foley
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My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless ...
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Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but ...
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Are there really 750 million mentally ill?
Chan said "these are not insurmountable problems" and "the way forward is bright and solidly paved." A "scaling up" of the professions will cost just 20 cents per person per ...
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Making the giant health database work for you
It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work ...
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Are there really too many Windows editions?
Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It ...
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