News to know: AMD Barcelona potential; Vista subscription trials; Google
Notable headlines:George Ou: AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel. Review: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.
Notable headlines:George Ou: AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel. Review: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.
The run on Internet advertising firms may be explained by the cache of cookies sitting in your browser. As we all know online advertising consolidation is rampant--Google bought DoubleClick; Microsoft grabbed aQuantive; WPP takes out 24/7 Real Media and Yahoo acquired Right Media.
Enterprise search is a mess and technology managers--as well as the vendors selling them stuff--are to blame. In the end, Google will take over the enterprise.
Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Kubuntu 7.04: Best distro for Windows users?
Google will report first quarter earnings later today with a conference call at 4:30 p.m.
Giants such as Yahoo, Google, eBay and Amazon and their ilk are going to control 50 percent of all consumer purchases by 2016 and wreak havoc on consumer businesses. These stats are tossed out by Gartner to get folks thinking.
Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Animated cursor attacks escalate; emergency patch coming. Microsoft knew of Windows cursor flaw since December 2006.
Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shows off its future business-app user interfaces. Gallery (right).
Federal Express is running a "limited pilot" that couples sensor technologies to track a package's temperature, location, humidity levels and delivery status with Web 2.0 tools such as Google Earth, according to FedEx CIO Robert Carter.
If Google's Street View is so great, why am I wary. Oh yeah, it must be the FOG (the fear of Google Robert Scoble talks about).