IT news for April 17: CIO salaries rise; GUI changes in Vista SP1; Hyper-V
- Date: April 17th, 2008
- Author: Sonja Thompson
- Category: News to know
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, GUI, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Salary, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems
“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 Thursday, April 17, 2008:
Andy Moon: Are you ready for the next version of IP?
Paul Mah: CIO salaries on the rise
Michael Kassner: Cisco 800 series Integrated Services Routers now support 802.11n
Greg Shultz: An investigation of GUI changes found in Windows Vista SP1
Jason Hiner: Fixed Mobile Convergence can centralize business numbers and reduce airtime
Sonja Thompson: TR Member Spotlight with Palmetto
Ed Bott: Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art. Gallery (right).
WSJ: Yahoo-Google Deal Advances
Popular Mechanics: How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It
Larry Dignan: Apple plugs Pwn2Own winning vulnerability
Mozilla delivers Firefox update
WSJ: Security is No Match for Chocolate and Good Looking Women
Nate McFeters: Mark Dowd’s null pointer dereference exploit and advanced Flash ActionScript techiques proove definitively: Aliens Do Exist!
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Digging into Psystar
- Richard Koman: Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
- Jason O’Grady: Lawyers: Psystar may be ‘very hard to stop’
- Psystar: I smell a rat (updated)
- Techmeme
Larry Dignan: Big Blue delivers big profits; Ups 2008 outlook
Heather Clancy: Making the most out of Earth Day, the green tech way
Jason Perlow: Let’s try this again - how about an XPhone?
Dennis Howlett: The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- Michael Krigsman: Social media and enterprise power relationships
Jason O’Grady: Problems extending an Airport Express n network on Comcast
Rik Fairlie: Build your own Wi-Fi antenna
Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where’s the next ban?
Zoho launches enterprise CRM; Aims to poach Salesforce.com customers
Nate McFeters: Taking ownership (pwnership) of content: Cross-site Scripting Google
Tom Foremski: Wish everybody well . . . the market will take care of dumb competitors
Charles Cooper: Microsoft 1, blogosphere 0
TechRepublic: The ten roles you need for ITIL configuration management
Google’s paid clicks anemic in March; Will it matter?
Gizmodo: Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get
Roughly Drafted: IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs
Dana Gardner: Desktop as a service era ramps up as Citrix marks May delivery of XenDesktop at a tough price to beat
Paula Rooney: Open source ERP rivals Compiere, OpenBravo expand partner networks
Matthew Miller: Asus officially announces launch of Asus Eee PC 900
Photos: Eee PC grows two inches- Intel: Netbook shipments about to ramp
- John Morris: Intel says business is fine, especially in notebooks
- Christopher Dawson: In Ed Tech, XP Home not good enough for Eee
Roland Piquepaille: A new way to improve computer graphics
Andrew Nusca: New high-def S3 graphics processor announced
Dana Blankenhorn: Why source matters to SaaS
- Creating personal health record value from the bottom up
- Comcast Bill of Rights unnecessary in open source world
Garett Rogers: Google Earth now in true 3D
Dan Kusnetzky: Could 3Leaf’s Virtual Compute Environment Grow on You?
San Quentin prison: IT failure is life or death
TechCrunch: Valleywag Fires Writer Who Criticized Valleywag
