IT news for April 16: Microsoft-Yahoo saga; Zune VideoX; MySQL 5.1
- Date: April 16th, 2008
- Author: Sonja Thompson
- Category: News to know
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, MySQL, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications
“News to know” is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines.
Notable headlines for Wednesday, April 16, 2008:
Tricia Liebert: Taking it to the … Web. Starbucks wants your ideas.
Jason Hiner: A visual diagram of the epic Microsoft-Yahoo saga
Toni Bowers: Anger in the office: Its effect could depend on your gender
Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft’s iTunes killer?
Larry Dignan: Intel’s quarter on target: The tech sector exhales
Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers; AMD lands VMware certification
Garett Rogers: Add videos of your business to Google Maps
Paula Rooney: Sun debuts MySQL 5.1 with no licensing change
openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy
David Morgenstern: Apple seeking engineers with the right touch
Jason O’Grady: Attack of the clones: Psystar to battle Apple on EULA
- Larry Dignan: Psystar’s Mac clones: The pics
- Photos: Psystar’s Mac clones (right)
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar: Apple’s terms violate U.S. monopoly laws
- Morgenstern: Preview’s CMYK conversion bug
John Morris: Dell slims down its laptops for small business
Dennis Howlett: Coghead Gallery signals new new opportunities for developers
Facebook: A new way to share with friends Facebook Lexicon
TechRepublic: Don’t wait to address performance problems on a project
Andrew Nusca: How to calibrate your HDTV
Phil Wainewright: Squaring the cloud Dana Gardner: It’s not your company’s data anymore
Fred Wilson: Ten Questions About Entrepreneurs
Dana Blankenhorn: My kid hates Linux too! (so what?)Matthew Miller: Mowser ends, but the mobile web must live on. Kingsley-Hughes: Mobile Web must die!
- fring VoIP and IM client is now available for the Apple iPhone
- Third-party VoIP app for the iPhone - How will Apple respond to this?
TechCrunch: Google’s Don’t Be Evil Not “Ordained Motto” Says Marissa Mayer
News.com: Amazon’s MP3s not affecting iTunes
Kingsley-Hughes: Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement
Gallery: Apple TV 2.0.2 Software Released (right)
Blankenhorn: Windows (in)security and open source
Harry Fuller: Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time
AOL tacks on Sphere; Reinvention continues
Silicon Alley Insider: Ads In Twitter Streams? Nope
Paul Murphy: The obligatory ‘Victoria Falls’ post
Segway goes Web 2.0, launches social site
Download Squad: Parenting 2.0: Mom pranks son’s MySpace as punishment
