News to know: Microsoft-Yahoo talks (again); OLPC; Gmail themes; Firefox 3.0
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time?
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and Yahoo: A new deal in the works?
- BoomTown: Microsoft to Buy Just Yahoo's Search Business?
- NYT: In Reversal, Microsoft Proposes New Deal to Yahoo
- Techmeme
- Yahoo responds
Christopher Dawson: Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC? What is the future of Sugar?
- George Ou: Children won't have a say on whether Windows goes on the OLPC but so what?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Putting the XP into the OLPC
- Richard Koman: XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- Paula Rooney: WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
Robin Harris: If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will
Garett Rogers: Tipster says Gmail to get themes
Jason Perlow: I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
Charles Cooper: Amateur hour at Facebook. What gives?
Dancho Danchev: Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 RC 1 takes the lead on speed
- Gallery: SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and ACID 3 test results - May 08
- Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is released - complete with sneaky change
- Installation gallery
John Morris: Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200
Harry Fuller: Florida going slowly solar? High tech: respected in Europe, projected in the U.S. Heather Clancy: The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities
Roland Piquepaille:Games to make computers smarter
News.com: AMD sets new game PC specificationsMary Jo Foley: Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches
Micro Persuasion: The Hyperconnected vs. 84% of Everyone Else on Earth Dan Farber: Observations on Twitterdom
David Morgenstern: Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?
Paul Miller: Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters
Nate McFeters: McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"
News.com: Kevin Johnson's letter on updated online strategy
Matthew Miller: Mobius Seattle 2008: Windows Mobile devices in hand, Zune, and more.
Phil Wainewright: Web 2.0 and the end of advertising
New York Times: Online Search Ads Faring Better Than Expensive Displays
Jason O'Grady: iPhoneDevCamp 2 announcedReview: CardIris 3.0 scanning software
Paul Murphy: Buying from the enemy.
Ed Bott: Windows 7 ship date? The crowd has spoken...
Blankenhorn: Ready for the iProd?
AP: China allows bloggers, others to spread quake news
Joe McKendrick: Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture
Gizmodo: Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Is Way Better Than Cable or Satellite
iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch
Ryan Stewart: Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases fir
Dana Blankenhorn: Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight
Kingsley-Hughes: How to ... install Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB flash drive. Gallery (right).
RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working
IT Facts: 24% of teens write for personal enjoyment several times a month
- 89% of teens log in from home
- Mobile phone shipments down 11.6% in Q1 2008
- Leading US search engines in April 2008
- 80% of Internet users to have avatars by 2011
Heather Clancy: Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one
Dave Greenfield: Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform
Paul Miller: Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF