News to know: Adobe Apollo Alpha; Intel benchmarks; Local Web ads
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Notable headlines:
Ryan Stewart: Apollo public alpha available. Microsoft, Adobe, and rich versus reach.Apollo Camp: effective UI helping developers extend Apollo.
Adobe offers early peak at Apollo. Adobe statement.
Database servers get a new yardstick.
David Berlind: AMD’s no angel, but Intel’s public usage of benchmark data is feloniously misleading. Gallery.
Donna Bogatin: Google's high-speed battle with Microsoft.
MIT Technology Review: 10 Emerging Technologies 2007
Giga Om: TechCrunch lands Fox exec as CEO. Michael Arrington announcement. Donna Bogatin: TechCrunch goes pro: What’s the deal?
Server maker expanding double-whammy family.
Donna Bogatin: Local Advertising takes $39 billion starring role.
Computerworld: Philadelphia Stock Exchange overhauls BI operation.
BBC: Vehicle warning system trialled.
WSJ: Does Silicon Valley Need More Visas for Foreigners?
Garett Rogers: YouTube to expose video upload API.
O'Reilly Radar: The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived.
News.com: Viacom's Web guru plans for the future.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sheds more light on its Web-search incentive program.
Photos (right): A cool robot for polar duty.
Tom Foremski: Blogged content could carry advertising links…
One minor error in Sinbad's death notice.
Andrew Keen: Now public: newspapers are dead.
eWeek: How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT.