News to know: Working with Android; XP activation; Google Talk woe; Apple
Notable headlines:
Ed Burnette: Getting started with Android
Ed Bott: Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3
Mary Jo Foley: There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suite. Microsoft releases CRM 4.0 to manufacturing just under the wire
Garett Rogers: New version of the Google Talk client disables voicemail and more
Dana Blankenhorn: Spam a bigger concern than network neutrality
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Companies and products to keep an eye on in 2008
New York Times: Google gets ready to rumble with Microsoft. Dan Farber: Google vs. Microsoft = Search + Apps
Ryan Naraine: Apple updates 'critical' Java runtime. HP confirms gaping backdoor on 82 laptop models.
Mary Jo Foley: Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standards. Mobile browser based on Microsoft tech makes its beta debut.
Heather Clancy: Bragging rights: Chicago emerges as green data center powerhouse
Mozilla Labs: Personas for Firefox.
George Ou: SPEC launches standardized energy efficiency benchmark
NYT: On Facebook, scholars hook up with data.
Michael Krigsman: Twitter / T-Mobile: when policy meets technology
- UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers
- Dell's DNA housecleaning: "human flotsam and jetsam"
Janice Chen: What the heck is the difference among all those Canon ELPHs anyway? Top 10 reviews of the week. Does GM now mean 'green motors'?
Google Operating System: Google Profiles are coming.
Phil Windley: Economics that are impossible to stop
Russell Shaw: System-wide Vonage outages reported Fri. evening, Sat. a.m. Nortel sues Vonage for patent infringement
Christopher Dawson: Resistance is futile...I want to buy a Mac
Torvalds: Linux to make dent in smartphones in '08
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft goes on a Christmas Xbox Live banning spree - Unmodded Xboxes caught in crossfire
Survey: People skills valued over those for IT
Larry Dignan: Amazon rolls out beta of its cloud database. Google Knol: Wikipedia killer or knowledge management app?
Celebrating 60 years of transistors.
Rockin' titles boost game industry in '07
Companies warned not to rush into social networking
Ryan Stewart: Natural experiences with software
Roland Piquepaille: Oil-eating microbes produce green energy
Beyond iPhone, gadgets led year's mobile developments
Robert Scoble: Celebrating 7 years of blogging.