News to know: Vista advice; HP; Patent wars
Notable headlines:
Microsoft patent case stirs software export fears.
Larry Dignan: HP’s quarter by the numbers; channel stuffing chorus may rev up. SeekingAlpha: Earnings call transcript.
TechCrunch: Kevin Rose at FOWA: Digg Adopts OpenID. Richard MacManus: Do You Actually Use OpenID?
Mary Jo Foley: Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft. Microsoft set to publicize list of 800 Vista-compatible apps.
David Berlind: Making the most out of your megapixels.
Justin Rattner: Tera-Scale: What Would We Do with All These Cores and How Would We Feed Them?
Vista advice central:
David Berlind: To upgrade or not to upgrade: A digital family talks about its plans for Vista.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Screenshots Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (at right).
Ed Bott: Vista Hands On #5: Edit boot menus and more.
Mitch Ratcliffe: The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Return to battle, no memory hogs found at startup.
Garret Rogers: Charts in Google Spreadsheet are imminent.
Dan Farber: In software services we trust?
WSJ: Google needs TV friends. YouTube deal with CBS unravels. Larry Dignan: The Joost-Viacom love in (and what they meant to say). Techmeme discussion.
Jonathan Mendez: 7 ways to optimize your YouTube tags.
Dan Farber: Edgeio launches classified platform for the masses. Techmeme discussion.
UCSF nurses test tablet PCs. Images (at right).
Engadget: IEEE pushing 802.16m WiMAX to 1Gbps, hopes to converge with 4G.
Ryan Stewart: WPF and proving the importance of experience. Yourminis gets a makeover, starts talking Apollo. Joost and Viacom - a win for desktop Rich Internet Applications.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: When will we start to see OEMs ship new PCs with Firefox or Opera installed? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ out - Still can’t beat Intel’s E6700.
Images: Cashing in on green ideas (at right).
Larry Dignan: JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a difference. Computerworld: Overwhelmed IT systems partly to blame for JetBlue meltdown.
Baseline: Virtualization: PG&E's Power Play.
Donna Bogatin: Blog Hillary launches, Clinton targets gender ‘User Generated Politics.'
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to make joint appearance.