July 2nd, 2008
News to know: Microsoft; Yahoo; Google; IT contractors
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s search plan: It’s about semantics and possibly for naught.
- Dennis Howlett: Powerset’s smarts are Microsoft’s gain
- Paul Miller: Powe
rset really does go to Microsoft… but for how much? - Mary Jo Foley: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search
- Techmeme
Foley: New Microsoft program to make volume licenses ‘evergreen’
WSJ: Microsoft Seeks Partners For a New Run at Yahoo
Matthew Miller: First impressions of the HP iPAQ 910 Business Manager. Gallery (right).
Deb Perelman: In lean times, a tale of two IT contractors
Ryan Naraine: Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser
- Google ships open-source Web security assessment tool
- Garett Rogers: Google retires AdSense referral program
Heather Clancy: Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
Silicon Alley Insider: AOL For Sale (TWX)*
Dennis Howlett: Oracle’s BEA strategy: reassuring the market
Nate McFeters: Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
Joe McKendrick: Analyst: Microsoft ‘tone deaf’ about SOA
Webware: Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
Jason Perlow: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
Gallery (right)- Larry Dignan: VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one
- Dan Kusnetzky: Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Sun’s Comments
John Morris: AMD Phenom gets (a little) faster
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: PhysX on the Radeon? Seems that it’s possible!
- Today we see AMD release three new high-performance quad-core desktop processors.
ReadWriteWeb: Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web
Paul Murphy: Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
Paul Miller: ThomsonReuters’ OpenCalais increments to version 2.1
Dana Blankenhorn: Why Microsoft might win in mobile
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Thinking — Or Feeling — Like A Computer
Michael Krigsman: Scathing report slams UK gov’t data loss
Jason Perlow: Pssst! … wanna save up to 40 percent on a robotic massage chair?
Forbes: Apple Spurns Intel, For Now
Phil Wainewright: UK builder switches email to Google Apps
Nate McFeters: Snort Security Platform (Snort SP) 3.0 beta released
Infectious Greed: The VC Asset Class Crisis Thing
AT&T details iPhone plans; Rolls out ‘iReady’ tips (yes we’re serious) Jason O’Grady: Apple posts iPhone 3G guided tour
Ryan Stewart: Search-ability in Flash
Steve O’Hear: Could Twitter become the next PayPal?
Dana Blankenhorn: One pharmacy hub to rule them all
Images: Dubai’s skyscraper in motion (right)
Roland Piquepaille: Towards eco-friendly fireworks?
Mitch Ratcliffe: McCain’s campaign team has no Facebook chops
TechCrunch: Engadget’s Ryan Block and Peter Rojas To Team On New Startup
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
