News to know: Salesforce.com; Second Life currency theft; SAP; Document standards
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers. Dan Farber: SAP blesses the iPhone. Michael Krigsman: SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up
David Berlind: Did the W3C acknowledge CDF’s potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators.
Microsoft to deliver Office 2007 SP1 early.
Ryan Naraine: QuickTime hack allows Second Life currency theft. Grisoft snaps up Exploit Prevention Labs. Richard Stiennon: Ten threat predictions for 2008.
Will the Feds take down a big hacker group in 2008?
Ed Burnette: Netbeans 6.0 weighs in at a paltry 12M. Dan Farber: Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shif
Photos: Gibson's self-tuning six string (right). Researcher: Al-Qaida-linked Web sites number 5,600.
AppleInsider: Apple validates 13-inch LED backlight units ahead of ultra-portable. Matthew Miller: Nokia World 2007: Avvenu acquisition, internet radio, free music, and more. Larry Dignan: Nokia: Dissecting the moving parts.
Roland Piquepaille: Building 3-D particles with light.
Ryan Stewart: Flickr and Picnik - RIAs continue to go mainstream. Digital Inspiration has exclusive screenshots of Live Documents. BusinessWeek: Verizon embraces Google's Android.
Google Blogoscoped: Chat With AIM Users From Gmail.
Christopher Dawson: Writer's Cafe is slick, cross-platform software for all writers
David Berlind: Video: Amazon's Kindle in a crashed state -- must the content be reloaded? Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?
Podcast: Beacon woes, Techonorati revamp, Kindle, ODF and more...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Fastest Windows Vista notebook - MacBook Pro. Could Apple allow Windows apps to run natively? David Morgenstern: Are Macs more blue than red?
George Ou: Firefox vs. Internet Explorer: No real security winner. Mozilla's Mike Shaver's first response and second one.
Dana Blankenhorn: The real argument agai
Larry Dignan: Survey: 13 percent of CIOs plan to add staff soon. Bruce Schneier on the 10 year security outlook (it's worrisome).
Dennis Howlett: Customer intimacy not strong at SAP. SAP unveils its first software for iPhone.
Dana Blankenhorn: Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate.
Robin Harris: 3 simple ways to optimize for Google PageRank.
Computerworld: Facebook's Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg.
Steve O'Hear: MySpace launches "Transmissions" - exclusive content from major label artists.
Securing Microsoft: Inviting the hackers inside.
Russell Shaw: VoIP sessions subpar? Try this. "iPhone" is Google's "fastest rising U.S. search term" of 2007: here's why.
Heather Clancy: When it comes to buying tech, about 12 percent of Americans are “bright green”