News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks
Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update
- Is Windows XP SP3 just around the corner?
- Microsoft releases February test build of SQL Server 2008
- 'Arrowhead' updates to .Net 3.5 to speed WPF apps
David Morgenstern: Apple updates Xsan, gets out of RAID business Jason O'Grady: MacBook Air Diary-Day 20: Cutting the cord
Yahoo beefs up severance packages (just in case Microsoft succeeds)
Robin Harris: HD DVD post-mortem: Why did Toshiba fail?
- Larry Dignan: Toshiba Betamaxes HD DVD
- Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player
- Josh Taylor: Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead
- Ed Burnette: HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on top
- Techmeme
- Epicenter: Is Apple ready to bust a Blu-ray move
Websense CEO on attack vectors, the future of AV and the malware arms race
Rik Fairlie: D-Link router deflects malware with new built-in SecureSpot technology
Dan Farber: Transition time at ZDNet
Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries
Paula Rooney: Mozilla’s T-Bird 3 to get an overhaul Mozilla launches Mozilla Messaging unit; Can it fix email?
Russell Shaw: Mozilla Messaging transition to Thunderbird 3 may spark VoIP integrationVerizon sending stay-with-us "inducment letters" to defecting voice customers
Will BlackBerry OS 4.6.0 see fix to battery drain issues? Perhaps not
Dan Kusnetzky: Digipede Network Version 2 Launched
Matthew Miller: AT&T and Palm launch the GSM Palm Centro for US$99.99
Phil Wainewright: How to deploy to the cloud of your choice
Boomtown: Owen Van Natta to leave Facebook
Download Squad: Is Newspond a Techmeme killer
Harry Fuller: Ocean power: catching a wave but ahead of the curve
Heather Clancy: Let the green tech lobbying begin, CEO-style
Ryan Stewart: Scribd: rich Internet....paper?
George Ou: One year till death of analog TV in USA
Garett Rogers: Microsoft to squish Google Sky like a bug?
Images: Be prepared for total lunar eclipse
Richard Koman: Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
Dana Blankenhorn: Leave Jonathan Schwartz alone!
Roland Piquepaille: Lasers for analyzing our breath?
Dana Gardner: Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service