News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
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Notable headlines:
Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do
- Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution
Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul
Yahoo: Yahoo! Launches Fire Eagle. Techmeme
Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta freeze delayed until September 9
- Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in alpha testing
- Dana Blankenhorn: Supporting the long tail of open source
- TechRepublic: Debian: The OS for the rest of us
Review: Acer Aspire One Linux and XP (right)
Heather Clancy: Green is really just another way of saying 'energy-efficient'
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How do you get rid of tech junk?
- Tech to trim your commute
- Christopher Dawson: Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers
- Harry Fuller: More small scale electric transport
Paul Murphy: The Unix sysadmin salary premiumTechRepublic: 10 things you should know about working with an offshore team
Kingsley-Hughes: Are NVIDIA G92s and G94s failing prematurely too?
Paul Miller: The Future of the WebRichard Koman: State AGs ignore phishing, spyware
Dana Gardner: Discussion features insights into using RESTful services plus cool iPhone app
- Kingsley-Hughes: No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!
- Jason O'Grady: Mozilla CEO John Lilly on Apple and iPhone
- Wired: The Mozilla CEO on His Firefox Strategy, His Google Gambit, and Working With Apple
- GigaOm: 3G iPhone Connection Problems Chip-Related?
- Image Gallery: GTS World Racing on the Apple iPhone
- AppleInsider: Sources: Best Buy to sell Apple's iPhone 3G nationwide
Reuters: Applied Materials Profit Falls Amid Sales Slump
Futuristic Play: Early adopters vs the Mainstream: Google Insights points out websites only used by Silicon Valley nerds
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to highlight app virtualization at September launch
Dignan: Dell rolls out new Latitude laptop lineup; Targets longer battery life
Mitch Ratcliffe: eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?
Jason Perlow: Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?
Joshua Greenbaum: Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth
- Joe McKendrick: When the going gets tough, will the tough go to Web 2.0?
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
Washington Post: Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent
Dan Kusnetzky:What's holding Desktop Virtualization back?
VMware Communities: BIG bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2 - If you're using 3.5u2 read this now! - A general system error occurred: Internal Error
Matthew Miller: Several hands-on photos of the HTC Touch Pro appear
Steve O'Hear: Twitter moves to combat 'follow spam'
Kingsley-Hughes: Is AMD getting ready to split?
Intel: New processors, cheaper processors
John Morris: Review roundup: AMD's Radeon 4870 X2 delivers
Paul Miller: Putting Semantic Technology to work at BT
John Carroll: Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple
AOL's dial-up business: Is there a (minor) bidding war brewing?