News to know: AMD vs Intel; GoogleDrive.com; Microsoft search tweaks
Notable headlines:
George Ou: AMD: Is closing the quad-core deficit enough? Paul Murphy: Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2.
Garett Rogers: Google secures GoogleDrive.co
m and updates name servers.
Review: Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse.
Harry Fuller: IBM: "Big Blue" looks at little green guys and sees big future.
ReadWriteWeb: Yahoo Launches 2 New Hacks - Interview with Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo. Ryan Naraine: Old QuickTime bug returns to bite Firefox.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft details search changes coming in Vista Service Pack 1. Microsoft outlines Vista desktop search changes.
Computerworld: Microsoft changes Windows files on user PCs without permission, researchers say. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Microsoft fiddling
Photos: Microsoft mice to escape from the factory (right).
Michael Krigsman: iPhone unlock hack: cooked Apples or not?
David Berlind: Latest iPhone hacks shine spotlight on war between oysters and shuckers. Jason O'Grady: That didn't take long: free open-source iPhone unlock released (updated).
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft, Sun to team on virtualization. Ed Burnette: Sun to resell Windows as Linux, Solaris alternative. Paula Rooney: Microsoft's virtualization hypervisor needs Red Hat support, too.
Dana Blankenhorn: Code search has become a product category.
Dan Farber: HP launches ‘Shorty’ blade for the mid-market.
Larry Dignan: Lenovo launches green (and small) desktop.
Want to 'converse' with advertisers? Me neither
Sprint to offer online shopping on cell phones. San Francisco Chronicle: Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield
Roland Piquepaille: New nanomaterials able to cover large areas.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pushing Office 2007 with promos galore. InsideMicrosoft: Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students)
Phil Wainewright: Taleo beefs up with performance management. Google denies ownership of users' words.
Dana Blankenhorn: Are online medical record databases good or bad?
EDS offers retirement to 12,000 workers. FCC mandates more stringent E911 compliance.
Dana Blankenhorn: VMWare responds with open source in virtualization war. VMware: Not just hypervisor revenue.
Next venue for 'Guitar Hero III': PCs, Macs.
TechCrunch: Hulu makes first acquisition.
Louisgray.com: Internal Linking On Some Tech Blogs Is Out of Control.