News to know: Excel patches; Firefox benchmarks; Spitzer and IT; YouTube; HDTV
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring. Michael Krigsman: Eliot Spitzer's software nightmare
Microsoft delivers 12 patches to plug Office; 7 for Excel flaws
David Morgenstern: Microsoft updates Mac Office 2008, 2004
George Ou: Building the 200 inch 1080p HDTV
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 - Benchmarked. Gallery (right).
- SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark - XP SP2 vs. Vista SP1
- Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home Server
Bits: Yahoo may join Google-led social networking alliance Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft goes internal for new head of its app-platform business
New Silverlight 2 extension adds support for dynamic languages
Krigsman: Failed Carbonite upgrade lets customers down
News.com: YouTube becomes a service
EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples. Techmeme.
Janice Chen: Digital photo frames are more popular than you think
George Ou: PCI security standard endangers wireless LANs
Richard Koman: New camera detects objects under clothes
John Morris: Decoding AMD's 45nm processor announcement
Boomtown: Searchme: A new visual search engine
Josh Taylor: The perfect hotel room strip
David Morgenstern: Symantec announces Norton Mac-Windows antivirus bundle Jason O'Grady: Before there was ModBook...
Matthew Miller: Create, capture and sync your notes with Evernote on your Mac
Paul Miller: Semantic Web enables innovative steps at Reuters
Joe McKendrick: How to tap into the largest SOA in the world
Dana Blankenhorn: Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOS
Paula Rooney: CEO of dissolved Open Country buys management code, launches Linux, VM provisioning company
Roland Piquepaille: MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
Christopher Dawson: SIS interfaces continue to improve
Silicon Alley Insider: AOL "disintegrating"
Phil Wainewright: Oracle skins CRM with social networking
Dennis Howlett: Qik and the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch
TechCrunch: 20 percent of startups can't get to their cash
Dan Kusnetzky:Processing virtualization and desktop virtualization
Top 5 compliance challenges in a virtualized world
RealPlayer: More ActiveX security headaches
Fraud abroad remains 'uphill battle' for eBay
EU to probe US prosecution of gaming firms